During the course of the litigation, the class action lawyers discovered that Providian intentionally had embedded the wrong zip code into the bar codes for the return bill payment envelopes to ensure that customer payments would be delayed and thereby increase the late fee revenues Providian could charge and collect.
According to the filings, at the outset of the litigation the class's attorneys signed a fee agreement with the plaintiff who represented the class.
The Health Insurance Association of America said the Clinton proposal could have led to "excessive litigation, including class action lawsuits, that would drive up health care costs".
"As late as 1965, there was no employment-discrimination litigation, no class actions for damages suits, no environmental law and no campaign-finance limitations," observes Richard Epstein, a legal scholar at the conservative Hoover Institution.
Since it happened, there has been a lot of litigation and class action lawsuits -- and eventually even some laws could be changed to make things more strict for cemeteries.
As the employer of record of our temporary workers we incur a risk of liability for various workplace events, including claims for personal injury, wage and hour requirements, discrimination or harassment.... [S]ome or all of these claims may give rise to litigation including class action litigation...
Some are predicting multi-billion- dollar litigations from class-action and individual suits on the conflicts of interest at Merrill revealed in the Spitzer case.
He said that usually in class litigation, "if people have large individual claims, they may be better off in an individual action than a class action".
Robert Gordon, a partner in Weitz & Luxenberg, which is not involved in the class litigation, termed his firm's advertisements "a public service to alert people to deadlines they might not know about and to let them know they may do better" with an individual suit.
