Remember the furor over melamine-tainted pet food? It seems the issue is at rest and the news is abuzz with the China milk scandal.
For those who have not heard but were affected, you’ll want to know that the deadline this class-action settlement is coming up real soon.
New York state restaurant, T.K. Ribbing’s Family Restaurant of Falcone, has launched a lawsuit against 13 major U.S. egg producers and three egg trade groups, with the accusation that they deliberately fixed prices by reducing the supply of eggs in the last eight years.
The good news for Bayer is that they don’t have to deal with a class action from disgruntled farmers, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of litigation.
A federal judge denied a class action lawsuit to be filed against Bayer CropScience AG over the accidental release of experimental genetically engineered rice into the food supply.
Social network company Facebook has been slapped with a class action suit because of its controversial Beacon advertising system.
Lead plaintiff Patricia Wiener filed a class action lawsuit against yogurt company Dannon for making false claims on its probiotic products. She is represented by attorney Tim Blood from Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins.
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In July 2008, Wal-Mart lost a $6.5 million class action lawsuit in a Minnesota court after an arduous three-month trial. A state court judge ruled that Wal-Mart broke state labor laws more than two million times because the supermarket chain failed to provide its employees proper rest breaks. The damages were awarded to approximately 56,000 Wal-Mart employees in Minnesota.
In their battle over termination fees, mobile phone carrier Sprint was ordered to fork out $18.3 million to customers who filed a class action suit over fees charged for ending their contracts early.
Sprint must also pay out another $54.5 million to customers who were charged the fees but haven’t paid them yet, under the court ruling. This is a bad financial hit on already struggling Sprint.
American drug company Merck is facing a class action certified by The Ontario Superior Court of Justice over its troubled painkiller Vioxx.
The pharmaceutical company is paying out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits in the US.
Poisoned victims of the Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter salmonella debacle from last year cannot launch a class action lawsuit against manufacturer ConAgra, which was blamed for thousands of illnesses in 2006 and 2007.
Atlanta U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. ruled that a class action would not serve the purpose of compensating thousands of plaintiffs.
Last week, a class action lawsuit was launched against New Brunswick’s Regional Health Authority for faulty pathology work at the Miramichi Regional Hospital.
The complaint alleges that the hospital authority was negligent when it hired pathologist Dr. Rajgopal Menon in 1994 against the advice of Dr. John MacKay, its vice-president of medical services at the time.
