Sentences with phrase «risk class action»

The volume of bet - the - company and high - risk class action matters per company increased from 25.3 percent in 2016, to 26.2 percent in 2017.

We understand the risk class actions pose to your reputation, operations, and bottom line, and we tirelessly pursue the result that will allow your business to move forward.

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Wigdor initially filed its class action in November on behalf of two unidentified women, arguing that Uber put thousands of women at risk and put profit over safety.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

One of the biggest names in the advisory business, Michael Kitces, weighed in last January on the potentially devastating class action lawsuit risks faced by financial institutions if they don't fully address the Duty of Care.

These costs include bankers» and lawyers» fees, the risk of class - action litigation, the need to reveal commercially sensitive information that could benefit rivals, and the prospect of fights with corporate raiders who want juicier returns for shareholders and social activists who want executives to pay heed to their values.

Notably, the reality is that the compliance departments of many Financial Institutions have already been fretting the risk of a class action lawsuit.

On January 19th, 2016, a federal judge preliminarily approved a class action settlement on behalf of JPMC shareholders who alleged suffering losses as a result of the bank's supplying false and misleading statements concerning the risks and losses arising from the secret proprietary trading activities of the «London Whale,» a rogue London - based JPMC trader who caused the bank to suffer $ 6.2 billion in losses.

Retired players Dave Christian, Reed Larson and William Bennett filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday alleging that the league has promoted fighting and downplayed the risk of head injuries that come from it.

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

Rather than assign blame to humans for particular extremes, scientists could study a class of events, such as heavy rainfall in a certain geography, and say whether past human actions have increased their risk.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Requiring this case to be litigated on an individual basis would risk disparate results in nearly identical suits and exponentially increase the cost of litigation... Class action, by contrast, would achieve economies of time and effort, resolving common legal and factual issues «without sacrificing procedural fairness or bringing about other undesirable results.»

Paul speaks with Ken Roberts of Ken's Bulls and Bears about investing yesterday and today, understanding risk, fiduciary responsibility versus suitability of investment advisors, asset class diversification, retirement distributions and how to change your luck by taking certain actions.

The ruling heightens the risk, particularly for credit counseling agencies doing business in the First Circuit (encompassing Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island), that their activities, especially their DMPs and less - than - full balance repayment programs, may trigger coverage under CROA and give rise to class action litigation, forcing them — at great expense — to prove that they are actually operating as bona fide nonprofit organizations (in order to be exempt from CROA, particularly for what has transpired in the past), or, alternatively, to comply with CROA's requirements prospectively.

A good antidote would be a massive, class - action suit against the Banks that have shared our personal information with the national credit bureaus - obviously without adequate (and by - the - way, required) vendor risk management.

While programs advanced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) did not attract the attention of mortgage lenders, changes in the way the industry is approaching this problem — and the high risk of class - action lawsuits against those institutions that do not act — are leading more lenders to consider moving forward with mortgage modification programs.

Examples from the exhibition include: William Moore McCulloch, who worked tirelessly for equal rights at the risk of political suicide and was recognized by President Kennedy for his important influence in passing the Civil Rights Act; Edward Brooke, one of the first Republicans to call on President Nixon to resign in light of the Watergate scandal; Mose Wright, who in 1955 testified at the trial of the men who brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered his great nephew, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a white woman; and Lois Jenson, a Minnesota miner who, in 1988, filed Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. and won the first class - action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.

Second, these nations would need to choose a geoengineering suite that did not maximize their own interests but distributed the risks and benefits of their decision fairly across the class of individuals who will be innocently harmed by their actions.

Similiarly, if possibility theory admits that evidence can make an event «more likely», then the requirement to be able to rank scenario classes as more or less likely than each other leads to something that looks a lot like probability in the end, and the debates about whether a risk justifies action should depend on how one evaluates the evidence, and one's aversion to risk, rather than the terminology used to quantify risk (or not).

Everyone understands that class counsel accept and carry enormous risks when they undertake a class action.

The supplementary decisions do not share the cases cited by counsel in support of this amount, and the case does involve a class - action, where the risks are typically much higher for counsel.

Referring to previous class action decisions in which judges had considered time spent and risks incurred before approving fees of up to 25 %, Justice Belobaba concludes that a one - third contingency fee is presumptively valid and should only be departed from in exceptional circumstances.

Craig Jones has argued that the «main goal of the class action is deterrence; that is, to reduce the systemic risks of business activity to a socially optimal level.»

New York City - based Wigdor Law initially filed the class action in November on behalf of two unidentified women, arguing that Uber put thousands of women at risk and put profit over safety.

[127] Professor Piché in her text Fairness in Class Action Settlements, supra at pp. 179 - 80 summarizes the various factors for the settlement approval test into seven factors; i.e.: (1) judicial risk analysis: likelihood of recovery, or likelihood of success on the merits weighed against amount and form of settlement relief; (2) future expense, complexity and likely duration of litigation; (3) class reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class memClass Action Settlements, supra at pp. 179 - 80 summarizes the various factors for the settlement approval test into seven factors; i.e.: (1) judicial risk analysis: likelihood of recovery, or likelihood of success on the merits weighed against amount and form of settlement relief; (2) future expense, complexity and likely duration of litigation; (3) class reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class memclass reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class memclass members.

Study Links Depo - Provera to Greater Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 16, 2012 Israeli Court Awards Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 There have reportedly been more than 200 reports of people sustaining serious health complications from taking Pradaxa.

determining that, as a result of recent Supreme Court decisions, the litigation was now «prohibitively high - risk», but nevertheless requiring the plaintiff to incur the time, expense and exposure in proceeding with a class action that had become no longer viable.

Managing Legal Risks: Trends in Data Privacy & Security Class Action Litigation, Bryan Cave LLP Bulletin, November 2013

Managing Legal Risks: Trends in Data Privacy & Security Class Action Litigation, Bryan Cave LLP Bulletin, September 2013

As a condition of being admitted to train in X at any training premises, I assume the risk of all injuries, losses and damages and do hereby hold the training center, its instructors and agents or persons otherwise connected with the X classes harmless from any and all liability (including legal costs) for all claims, actions or damages due to injuries, losses or damage suffered by me or caused to a third party by me during the course of X training, or arising out of the activities of the X classes, or any other activities occurring on the premises of the training facilities or elsewhere.

Class actions are suitable for cases where the individual class member's monetary loss, if any, is small, but the defendant has wronged many who as individuals can not sensibly take on the financial risk of suing the defendant, who simply gets away with its misdClass actions are suitable for cases where the individual class member's monetary loss, if any, is small, but the defendant has wronged many who as individuals can not sensibly take on the financial risk of suing the defendant, who simply gets away with its misdclass member's monetary loss, if any, is small, but the defendant has wronged many who as individuals can not sensibly take on the financial risk of suing the defendant, who simply gets away with its misdeeds.

Insurance companies have confronted significant class action litigation risks on several fronts over the past year.

We will also address the current trends in employment litigation and class actions, and discuss how employers can manage risk in the most effective way possible.

The types of claims brought, and the means by which they are run and funded, mean that the use of ad hoc approaches to practical issues in the management of class actions risks inconsistent results unless the regime is improved to meet these new challenges.

Our litigators counsel clients on how to minimize the risk of getting sued in a class action the next time.

«With the risk of class action litigation on the rise, companies in all industries are looking for new and better ways to protect themselves.

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Smith v. Inco, 2011 ONCA 628, was a class action by thousands of Port Colborne residents who alleged loss in property value due to public concern about potential health risks from nickel contamination on their property.

Firms sought out insurance for their clients to protect them from the significant financial risks of class - action litigation.

If you were injured because of a recalled product, company that falsely advertised their product or that failed to disclose the facts and risks of their product; you may be eligibile to participate in a class action lawsuit.

Class action financing could encourage just the opposite — as parties try to create a «perfect storm» of class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless Class action financing could encourage just the opposite — as parties try to create a «perfect storm» of class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless case.

Neil brings a practical approach to dispute resolution and counseling, representing clients in a broad range of industries on key areas of litigation risk, including breaches of contract, business torts, intellectual property disputes, securities litigation, and class action defense.

In addition, two newly - enacted laws risk expanding civil liability through class actions.

My sense is failing to provide a contagious illness policy likely exposes an employer to greater risk of violating its duty to provide a safe workplace, or arguably to a class action suit for negligence.

for good reason, I think, because if eventually every service or product came with a contract which prevented consumers from filing a lawsuit or class action if, say, for instance, the product or service caused injury or death, like a car with braking system flaws, or a child's toy that causes cancer, etc, then we'd live in a world where corporations could shove whatever they wanted down our throats, cause injuries and death, and we could do nothing about it, because we «agreed to a contract» by using their product or service in the first place (and in this scenario there would be no alternatives, so you either risk using products that could kill you, or you go live in a cave or something).

Combining a thorough knowledge of class action procedure with an understanding of current regulatory developments, Phil represents his clients in state and federal courts nationwide on issues such as unclaimed property, contractual obligations, privacy / cyber risk, adequacy of disclosure and regulatory compliance.

Additionally, recognizing that a cyber - or privacy - related development can expand to encompass a number of other significant legal issues, our group works hand - in - glove with attorneys in our White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations, Securities Litigation, Complex Commercial Litigation, Business Finance & Restructuring and Employment Litigation practices, among others, to address subsequent risks such as government or regulatory inquiries, shareholder, consumer, or employee class action litigation, trade secrets theft, funding or financial issues, and disputes with vendors, service providers and other third parties.

Like any other court proceeding, class actions are a risk - reward proposition.

An economist might describe a class action lawsuit as a cost - effective risk transfer mechanism.