April 2012 – Lawyer.com | Legal Blog

What Happens to Unused Class Action Settlement Money?

We often hear about bigtime class action settlements, the ones with millions of dollars set up in trusts and application processes to benefit from. Like the $325 million Apple antenna lawsuit, or...

April 27, 2012

3 minutes

Settlements

Citizens Pays $132.5 Million for Overdraft Practices

Citizens Financial Group, a bank based in Rhode Island, was accused of unfair business practices in its calculation of overdraft fees for its poorer customers. Instead of processing transactions in the...

April 26, 2012

2 minutes

Settlements

Woman Wins $300k Due to Personal Trainer’s Negligence

When you purchase the services of a personal trainer, you hold an expectation that they have an idea or two about what's good for your health and that their supervision...

April 23, 20122

3 minutes

Settlements

NJ School District to Pay $4.2 Million to Student Paralyzed by a Bully

Sawyer Rosenstein was twelve years old when a bully punched him in his stomach hard enough to cause a blood clot in the artery that supplies blood to his spine....

April 19, 2012

3 minutes

Settlements

Formaldehyde-laced FEMA Trailer Companies Pay $14.8 Million to Katrina Victims

In the weeks and months following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, thousands of displaced families were given trailers to live in by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These trailers, while welcome...

April 18, 20121

2 minutes