Legal News - Class Action Lawsuit & Class Action Settlement News & Updates

May 3, 2021 A lawsuit was filed over Royal United Mortgage LLC’s allegedly unlawful practice of cold-calling consumers without obtaining their prior consent to do so.

April 30, 2021 A class action alleges the Hyundai Palisade is plagued by a defect-caused “strong foul odor” emanating from inside the vehicle.

April 30, 2021 A class action looks to represent certain Illinois law and med school students and state bar exam-takers who’ve used ExamSoft Worldwide’s online proctoring software.

April 30, 2021 A class action lawsuit alleges Santa Clara County, Calif. has wrongfully employed a policy of keeping individuals incarcerated for several days after the county district attorney’s office has declined prosecution.

April 30, 2021 Valve faces an antitrust class action that alleges the company has used competition-suppressing conduct to monopolize the PC gaming market.

April 30, 2021 A class action alleges Peloton Interactive has issued “materially false and/or misleading statements” with regard to safety concerns surrounding the company’s Tread+ treadmill.

April 30, 2021 Former miners for Alliance Coal claim in a lawsuit that they and other workers were not properly paid while working at two West Virginia mines.

April 29, 2021 Google faces a class action centered on an alleged "security flaw" with the COVID-19 exposure notification system it helped develop.

April 29, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Waste Connections has overcharged customers for waste removal services by levying excessive fuel surcharges and price increases.

April 28, 2021 Addison Group, LLC faces a proposed collective action that claims the recruiting agency has failed to pay certain employees proper overtime wages.

April 28, 2021 AmeriFirst Financial faces a lawsuit over a December 2020 data breach that reportedly compromised the personal information of more than 100,000 customers.

April 28, 2021 Einstein Healthcare Network faces a proposed class action lawsuit over an August 2020 data breach that reportedly affected upward of 353,000 individuals.

April 27, 2021 Kraft Heinz Foods Co. faces a class action centered on the Bagel Bites pizza snack and representations on its label that concern the use of certain “real” ingredients in making the product.

April 27, 2021 At least two more class actions allege TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions has routinely reported inaccurate and/or outdated consumer information to potential landlords.

April 27, 2021 A lawsuit claims certain Amazon delivery drivers are owed unpaid wages for overtime hours worked in excess of 40 each week.

April 27, 2021 A proposed class action claims US Dealer Services has unlawfully placed robocalls to consumers as a means to advertise its extended car warranties.

April 26, 2021 A class action claims Reddit, Inc. has violated a federal law by knowingly profiting from the posting of child pornography on its website.

April 26, 2021 Consumer Cellular failed to pay call center employees for off-the-clock work performed before the start of their scheduled shifts, a lawsuit claims.

April 23, 2021 CentralSquare faces a lawsuit centered on an apparent “wave of data breaches” in 2017 and 2018 that reportedly affected approximately 300,000 individuals.

April 23, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Sloan has underpaid workers by failing to record every hour worked and excluding nondiscretionary bonuses when calculating overtime rates.

April 22, 2021 A class action alleges the “black stainless steel” finish for certain Samsung appliances is nothing more than a “thin plastic coating” prone to peel, chip, flake and prematurely degrade after ordinary use.

April 22, 2021 Geico and parent co. Berkshire Hathaway face a class action in the wake of a data breach that reportedly took place from November 24, 2020 to March 1, 2021.

April 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims The Geo Group failed to pay proper overtime wages and instead paid employees at their straight-time rates for every weekly hour worked in excess of 40.

April 22, 2021 A proposed class action aims to hold The Kroger Co. accountable for alleged damages stemming from the “large and preventable” Accellion data breach.

April 22, 2021 A proposed class action claims Green Dot Corporation has sent automated text messages to consumers’ cell phones without obtaining prior express consent to do so.

April 22, 2021 Jet Lending, LLC faces a lawsuit that claims it unlawfully sent automated text and voice messages to consumers who never consented to be contacted.

April 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims Americold Logistics collected scans of workers’ fingerprints for timekeeping purposes without providing proper disclosures and obtaining consent.

April 22, 2021 A proposed class action claims Symetra Life Insurance Company has made improper deductions from the cash values of consumers’ life insurance policies.

April 21, 2021 The U.S. distributor of Nellie’s Free Range Eggs has falsely marketed the product as derived from free-range hens raised in humane living conditions, a class action alleges.

April 21, 2021 Bank of America faces another class action that claims the financial institution has lacked urgency in securing unemployment benefits for Californians amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 21, 2021 Big Think Capital robocalls to “thousands of persons” without obtaining prior express consent to do so, according to a proposed class action out of New York.

April 21, 2021 Apple faces a class action over an allegedly “unlawful, unconscionable” clause in its terms and conditions that supposedly allows it to delete a user's Apple ID.

April 21, 2021 Publix faces a lawsuit that claims the grocery store chain has violated food labeling laws by failing to affix required nutrition labels to its bakery goods.

April 21, 2021 Walgreens has wrongfully imposed in California a discriminatory “pink tax” on the women’s version of certain hair regrowth treatment products, a class action alleges.

April 21, 2021 Sara Lee’s “All Butter Pound Cake” is misleadingly labeled in that consumers are unaware the product also contains soybean oil, a class action alleges.

April 21, 2021 A lawsuit claims Cresco Labs has failed to pay workers for time spent donning and doffing protective clothing and safety equipment at the worksite.

April 21, 2021 A lawsuit has been filed over alleged “fugitive dust emissions” from a Cohoes, New York aggregate production and hazardous waste incineration facility.

April 20, 2021 Three plaintiffs allege Health First has engaged in “pervasive and long-term exclusionary conduct” as a means to maintain and strengthen a monopoly in the market for acute care in Florida.

April 20, 2021 Symmetry Energy Solutions wrongfully passed certain costs for the supply of natural gas onto customers amid Winter Storm Uri as it battered most of Texas in February, a class action alleges.

April 20, 2021 A class action alleges “more than 900 models” of Whirlpool-made dishwashers, including some sold under the KitchenAid, JennAir, Kenmore and Maytag brands, are plagued by a uniform defect.

April 20, 2021 A lawsuit claims Faneuil’s call center employees were not paid proper overtime wages as a result of their bonus not being taken into account during calculation.

April 20, 2021 A class action alleges CoSport, the sole authorized seller of tickets to the Tokyo Summer Olympics, has refused to issue refunds in light of the decision that international spectators will not be allowed to attend the event this summer.

April 20, 2021 The operators of Domino’s franchise stores in Alabama have failed to properly reimburse drivers for delivery-related expenses, a lawsuit claims.

April 20, 2021 Franklin misled investors regarding apparent battery issues in its hotspot devices that were eventually recalled, triggering a drop in stock price and injuring investors, a lawsuit alleges.

April 19, 2021 A retired NY Supreme Court judge alleges New Era Relocation LLC and several purportedly related entities have held hostage “valuable household goods, cherished family heirlooms and other property” in exchange for ransoms.

April 19, 2021 Supposed "balance cancellation” services offered by Citicorp Credit Services for Home Depot credit cards are “virtually worthless to almost all cardholders," a class action alleges.

April 19, 2021 Charter Communications faces a proposed class action over its alleged practice of robocalling consumers without first securing consent to do so.

April 19, 2021 Victoria’s Secret failed to pay employees for time spent undergoing COVID-19 temperature screenings prior to clocking in for their shifts, a lawsuit alleges.

April 19, 2021 A lawsuit claims Shell Oil Company misleadingly charged consumers its higher “credit” price for gas purchased with debit cards.

April 16, 2021 A class action alleges Vroom, Inc. and its CEO and CFO have issued over roughly the last year “materially false and/or misleading statements" with regard to the company's business.