Business/Finance

January 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges PayPal has unilaterally seized funds from users’ accounts without cause or any fair or due process.

January 17, 2022 A class action alleges John Deere has monopolized the repair service market for its agricultural equipment by making critical software and tools inaccessible to farmers and independent repair shops.

January 13, 2022 The Quantum Group USA faces a class action over its sale of life insurance policies linked to structured cash flow products found to be nothing more than illegal usurious loans.

January 13, 2022 A class action alleges Wells Fargo has failed to provide health plan participants and their beneficiaries with proper notice of their right to continued insurance coverage following a qualifying event.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges The Athletic has automatically renewed North Carolina customers’ monthly subscriptions without providing requisite disclosures and receiving authorization to do so.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges Round Table Physicians Group has unlawfully placed hospital liens on consumers who have been injured in a car accident.

January 10, 2022 Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pierce and others face a class action that alleges the parties misled consumers who invested in EthereumMax (EMAX) cryptocurrency tokens.

January 7, 2022 A class action alleges Bright Lending wrongfully holds itself out as owned and operated by a Native American tribe so as to charge borrowers exorbitant interest rates on small loans.

January 7, 2022 Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster face a class action over the alleged monopoly they hold over the primary and secondary ticket and concert promotion markets in the U.S.

January 5, 2022 A class action alleges the NFL and the NY Giants and NY Jets have “siphoned” billions from interstate commerce by branding the New Jersey-located franchises as New York teams.

December 20, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Bank of America, N.A. has failed to protect prepaid debit cards containing New Jersey residents’ unemployment benefits from fraud.

December 17, 2021 A class action alleges Drive New Jersey Insurance Company and Progressive Garden State Insurance Company have shirked their promise to pay insureds the actual cash value of a total-loss vehicle.

December 14, 2021 A class action alleges payday lender AvailBlue has operated what can be described as a rent-a-tribe scheme to charge usurious interest rates on small loans.

December 6, 2021 Lightspeed Commerce faces a class action that alleges the e-commerce software provider has issued materially false and misleading statements since September 2020.

November 29, 2021 A class action alleges USAA Federal Savings Bank has overcharged servicemembers on interest and fees, and consequently inflated their principal balances.

November 22, 2021 Atlantic Union Bank faces a class action over its apparent practice of stacking multiple fees on a single transaction that was rejected due to insufficient funds.

November 18, 2021 Zillow faces a securities class action following the announcement that it will wind down its Zillow Offers home-flipping business.

November 17, 2021 Sixty-five plaintiffs allege Constellation Network has refused to allow investors to participate in a “swap” of the company’s original cryptocurrency token to its second token.

November 17, 2021 A class action alleges Meta has falsely touted its ability and commitment to prevent the spread of misinformation, criminal activity and other toxic content while concealing its alleged dependence on that content.

November 16, 2021 A Dallas consumer alleges Coinbase failed to safeguard his account against unauthorized cryptocurrency transactions and then locked him out.

November 8, 2021 A class action looks to represent Mississippi Delta farmers who allege they were misled into believing Express Grain Terminals was prospering and financially stable during the Fall 2021 harvest.

November 3, 2021 A class action alleges Bank of America has used a fee-maximizing automated servicing platform to charge defaulted or at-risk-of-default borrowers for multiple, repetitive property inspections.

October 29, 2021 AmeriCU faces claims that it charged multiple overdraft fees on a single transaction and assessed overdrafts fee when customers did not overdraw their accounts.

October 29, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Citibank has unlawfully failed to timely present to county clerks in New York proof that mortgages have been satisfied.

October 25, 2021 A lawsuit claims American First Finance has issued unlawful loans for the purchase of consumer goods and services without disclosing the terms of the agreements.

October 22, 2021 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Bank of America has discriminated against consumers of Iranian and Middle Eastern descent by arbitrarily restricting and closing their accounts.

October 21, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Keesler automatically initiates its overdraft protection service even when doing so does not prevent an overdraft fee from being assessed.

October 19, 2021 Deloitte, LLP faces a class action that alleges nearly 90,000 retirement plan participants and beneficiaries have lost millions as a result of excessively high fees.

October 15, 2021 A class action alleges Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley avoided billions in losses by selling shares in Vipshop to “unsuspecting and unwitting” public shareholders based on non-public information.

October 15, 2021 A class action alleges Hyzon Motors and its top officers issued materially false and/or misleading statements.

October 13, 2021 A lawsuit alleges CFCU has wrongfully charged overdraft fees on transactions that do not actually overdraw an account and collected unlawful overdraft transfer fees.

October 12, 2021 Eargo faces a class action over an apparent stock-price drop an investor alleges was linked to the news of a DOJ probe into insurance reimbursement claims.

October 11, 2021 A class action alleges Summit Community Bank has unlawfully failed to conduct a reasonable investigation when receiving a qualified written request/notice of error from mortgage borrowers.

October 7, 2021 A class action alleges PNC Bank has taken advantage of mortgage borrowers who opted to defer payments amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 6, 2021 A class action alleges Altice USA, at the onset of the pandemic, violated its “Pledge to Keep Americans Connected” by terminating phone and internet services for small businesses nationwide.

October 5, 2021 A class action alleges Prestamos CDFI has failed to distribute Paycheck Protection Program loans to SBA-approved small businesses and sole proprietors amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 1, 2021 A class action alleges UnitedHealthcare has harmed patients by strategically removing certain service providers from its network as a means to negotiate for itself better contract terms.

September 30, 2021 A class action alleges RoFX.net and a cadre of shell cos. have run “nothing more than a front” for a massive scheme whereby they’ve defrauded investors worldwide.

September 28, 2021 A class action alleges Richard Zeitlin and a web of “sham” political action committees and other cos. have committed rampant violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to solicit millions in "donations."

September 28, 2021 LoanCare faces a class action that alleges the company has erroneously considered some mortgages past due even though borrowers have paid the obligations as instructed each month.

September 27, 2021 A class action alleges Bob’s Discount Furniture has misrepresented its “Goof Proof Protection” plans given customers’ claims can be denied “on almost any basis."

September 22, 2021 Student Loan Financial Assistance has preyed on student loan borrowers by misrepresenting the cost and features of federal loan repayment programs, a class action alleges.

September 21, 2021 Dollar Bank faces a proposed class action over its alleged practice of charging overdraft fees on transactions that do not actually overdraw an account.

September 17, 2021 A class action has been filed over Municipal Credit Union’s alleged practice of charging multiple non-sufficient funds or overdraft fees on a single transaction.

September 16, 2021 The Boston Beer Company and its top brass face a class action over stock-price drops allegedly linked to the parties’ non-disclosure of “decelerating” Truly Hard Seltzer sales.

September 15, 2021 A class action alleges CoinMarketCap.com, Binance Capital Mgmt., and several other parties have artificially suppressed the value of HEX by manipulating rankings on the site to inflate the price of other cryptocurrencies.

September 14, 2021 USAlliance Financial faces a class action over its alleged failure to refund all unearned fees for GAP waiver addendums in the event a consumer pays off a car finance agreement early.

September 13, 2021 A class action alleges the “Intelligent Portfolios” program offered by Charles Schwab Investment Advisory is not free to use as some marketing materials suggest.

September 8, 2021 Seven foreign citizens have filed a class action in which they allege Vermont and state officials took Burke Mountain hotel investors’ money and used it to pay Jay Peak contractors and facilitate the state’s tax revenues.

September 1, 2021 A class action aims to represent the victims of an alleged $110 million Ponzi scheme supposedly conceived and perpetrated by investment advisers at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.’s Atlanta office.