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National Law Journal

Redbox Reaches Proposed Deal With Visually Impaired Consumers

Visually impaired film fans in California have reached a $1.2 million class action settlement with video rental company Redbox, which has agreed to make its self-service kiosks more accessible to the legally blind.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

First Circuit Reverses $12M ERISA Class Action

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has reversed a $12 million class action judgment over a life insurer's establishment of retained asset accounts, which are created by life insurers when they pay proceeds of life insurance policies or annuities to beneficiaries by sending them a checkbook to the accounts.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Insurer On the Hook For Hospital's Rejection of Insurance

A health care insurer can be sued under a law meant to prevent providers from rejecting patients' insurance and instead attempting to collect from patients the full balance owed for their treatment, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Loss of Key Witness Dooms Pfizer Investor Class Action

In a victory for Beth Wilkinson of Paul Weiss and her cocounsel at Simpson Thacher and DLA Piper, a federal judge in Manhattan refused to give plaintiffs a new chance to explain how Pfizer caused their losses.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Whirlpool Settles Arkansas Contamination Claims

Arkansas property owners in an area contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical degreaser have reached a tentative $2.9 million settlement in a proposed class action targeting Whirlpool Corp., which operated a factory there for 45 years, according to federal court documents.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Milk Class Action Plaintiffs Appeal Expert's Exclusion

Plaintiffs lawyers in consumer-protection class actions challenging nutritional claims made for a brand of milk are appealing a federal magistrate judge's exclusion of their sole expert.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Rogue Filing in 'No Poach' Case Under Investigation

A Ventura County lawyer says someone else must have used her electronic filing account to lodge a lengthy motion demanding Judge Lucy Koh recuse herself.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Settlement Hearing Set in Toilet Class Action

A hearing has been set for final approval of an $18 million class action settlement to compensate own-ers of Flushmate toilets containing a flaw that has caused more than 300 of the devices to explode.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Suit Alleges Sunoco Overcharged Gift Card Users

Sunoco Inc. says its gas gift cards can be used "just like cash," but a consumer has filed a potential class action contending that is not the case.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Businesses Need to Know About the Roberts Court

A look at how the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has treated business lawsuits.
8 minute read

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