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Santa Clara, CA: A preliminary $7 million settlement has been reached potentially ending an unpaid overtime class action suit against US Bancorp. The suit, which alleges US Bancorp failed to compensate its workers for meal breaks that were not taken and to produce itemized wage statements, represents some 25,000 potential class members. According... - Kaiser and Xanitos Settle Hospital Housekeepers' Overtime Class action for $500,000
May-7-17 San Francisco: CA A federal judge has approved a settlement for $500,000 on a California overtime class action filed by housekeeping employees of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and hospital services company Xanitos. US District Judge William Orrick III called the settlement a "fair and reasonable resolution of a bona fide dispute" in his April 27, 2017... - $2 Million California Labor Lawsuit Settlement with Costco Nearing Preliminary Approval
May-4-17 San Diego, CA: A proposed California labor law class action will have to wait a little while yet before the rubber stamp comes down to mark ‘settled’ following yet another refusal by a US District Court judge in California to approve a proposed settlement due to inconsistencies between governance in the claims, and the language contained th... - $227M Settlement Final in FedEx Drivers Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $227 million settlement agreement has received final approval ending an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit between FedEx Corp and its drivers in 19 states. The plaintiffs alleged they were misclassified as independent contractors by FedEx, rather than full time workers, and were therefore undercompensated. According to settle... - $26.3M Preliminary Settlement Reached in WEN Hair Loss Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $26.25 million settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against WEN by Chaz Dean Inc. and manufacturer Guthy-Renker LLC. The suit alleged that the celebrity stylist’s hair products caused consumers’ hair to fall out. In addition to hair loss, the plaintiffs alleged the WEN products contain... - $900K Settlement Final in Thrifty Payless Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $900,000 settlement of an unpaid wages and overtime class action lawsuit pending against Thrifty Payless Inc, has received final approval. The lawsuit will resolve claims brought by 7,400 current and former employees of the drugstore chain. The complaint was filed by Oscar Willis Jr. and Renee Ortiz who alleged that Thrifty Payl... - $1.9M Settlement Reached Over Pharmavite False Ad Claims
Santa Clara, CA: A $1.9 million settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Pharmavite LLC. The suit alleged the supplement manufacturer wrongly labeld its Nature Made brand glucosamine products. Specifically, the lawsuit, which has been going on for six years, alleged Pharmavite falsely claimed that its su... - INRatio Proposed Class Action Settled Before Alere Lawsuit Could Proceed
May-1-17 Waltham, MA: An Alere lawsuit that had been proposed as a class action on behalf of litigants alleging injury from inaccurate readings from the INRatio blood monitoring device escaped trial when the parties involved agreed to a settlement at the eleventh hour. Briefings related to J.E. et al. v. Alere Inc. et al (Case No. 1:16-cv-11515, in... - Complicated TVM Mesh Lawsuit Settles
Apr-27-17 Los Angeles, CA: A transvaginal mesh lawsuit that has gone through a plethora of twists and turns akin to a country road appears to be in the final stages of resolution after a federal judge in California gave the thumbs-up to a proposed $12.25 million settlement. Upwards of 2,710 class members will share in $10.58 million, with the remainder going to... - $39M Settlement Reached in USAA Auto Insurance Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $39 million settlement has been agreed between class members and The United Services Automobile Association in a bad faith insurance lawsuit alleging the insurer breached the terms of auto insurance policies by failing to fully pay members for sales tax in the purchase of a comparable vehicle after their vehicles were written off... - $5M Discover Home Loans Preliminary TCPA Settlement Approved
Santa Clara, CA: Preliminary approval of a $5 million settlement has been granted in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action pending Discover Financial Services and Discover Home Loans Inc. The suit alleged that the defendants made unsolicited telemarketing calls to customers without receiving consent to do so. If you received telema... - Key Energy Agrees to Settle California Workers Class Action for $3 Million
Apr-23-17 New York, NY: Key Energy Services California has agreed to a $3 million settlement on a class action for California labor law violations. The class action consolidated two lawsuits originally filed nearly four years ago by former Key Energy employees. Paul Grillo, a non-exempt "floor hand" on a Key Energy onshore oil rig, filed a lawsuit in Santa... - Misclassified Plaintiffs in Massachusetts Eyeing $2.9 Million Proposed Settlement
Apr-21-17 Boston, MA: Plaintiffs in a recent Massachusetts employment law collective action have asked a federal judge in Massachusetts to approve a settlement worth $2.9 million that would settle claims of improper classification allegedly costing employees overtime pay. Massachusetts labor law – together with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal st... - $55M Personal Injury Verdict Against Honda Stands
Apr-19-17 Santa Clara, CA: A $55 million jury verdict brought against Honda Motor Co, in 2014 will stand, according to a ruling by the Pennsylvania Superior Court. The settlement resulted from a personal injury lawsuit against Honda that alleged the automotive manufacturer ignored a seat belt defect. The suit was brought by a man who claimed that defect resu... - Power Morcellation Suits Wrap Up but Doctors Still Like Procedure
Apr-18-17 San Diego, CA The majority of the lawsuits brought by women who developed cancer after a power morcellator procedure to extract uterine fibroids are wrapping up usually via a settlement agreement with Johnson and Johnson. Charles (Andy) Childers from the firm of Childers, Schlueter & Smith in Atlanta, Georgia says, “We have one wrongful... - Transvaginal Mesh Global Roundup: Sensational, Scandal and Settlement
Apr-17-17 London, UK: British tabloids have sensationalised transvaginal mesh by describing one victim’s botched surgery a “biting vagina”; an Australian Senator compares the mesh to Thalidomide as one of Australia's worst health scandals; and in the US a transvaginal mesh class action lawsuit is settled for $12.3 million. Sensationalized... - Airbag Lawsuits Dismissed as Parties Try to Work Out Settlement
Apr-17-17 Winston-Salem, NC: Two lawsuits filed in North Carolina last year against Takata Corp. over defective airbag injuries were voluntarily dismissed in January 2017 in favor of trying to work out a settlement, according to the Winston-Salem Journal . The Winston-Salem Journal article did not disclose settlement details. The lawsuits, one filed in... - $5M Settlement For DoorDash Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: DoorDash, a food delivery start-up, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle an employment class action lawsuit brought by workers who claimed they were misclassified so the company would not have to pay expenses among other costs. Two suits were filed in September 2015, one by Cynthia Marciano and the other by Evan Kissner both all... - The Story of Libby Montana and Asbestosis
Apr-9-17 Birmingham, AL In January 2017, after more than a decade of litigation, 1,000 vermiculite mine workers and residents of the town of Libby, Montana were awarded a $25 million settlement in compensation for exposure to asbestos from the W.R. Grace Company vermiculite mine that caused dozens and dozens of cases of asbestosis, mesothelioma or lung cancer... - Qui Tam Whistleblower “Double-Dipping”
Apr-6-17 Kansas City, KS: Of the 18 healthcare lawsuits filed under the whistleblower qui tam provision of the False Claims Act and unsealed last November, 13 of the whistleblowers (relators) are current or former employees of the defendant. Four of those 18 qui tam lawsuits involved kickback allegations, according to The National Law Review , and one la...