by John O'Toole | Mar 26, 2015 | Securities
The real estate bubble and the subprime mortgage market collapse that led to the great recession almost caused the complete collapse of several major finance and insurance entities. American International Group Inc (AIG) was one of those companies, and it was only...
by John O'Toole | Mar 20, 2015 | Consumer Fraud
The Target data breach incident demonstrates the advantage of class action litigation to obtain monetary and other relief for consumers. The data breach occurred during the holiday shopping season of 2013 and affected millions of Target credit account cardholders....
by John O'Toole | Mar 13, 2015 | Consumer Fraud
Sometimes, one has to wonder at the audacity of an entity. Banks, financial lenders and credit card issuers have been moving more and more towards limiting the rights of consumers to sue in court for problems with their accounts. While fees and other “service...
by John O'Toole | Mar 6, 2015 | Products Liability
Product liability cases are often the subject class actions, because in the U.S. today, much of the consumer products we buy in the marketplace are manufactured, produced or distributed by large corporate entities. This means that when one person suffers harm, often...
by John O'Toole | Feb 27, 2015 | Consumer Fraud
Consumer fraud class action cases can involve virtually anything that can be sold. Because manufacturers can violate the trust of consumers and the law in a endless number of ways. A class action lawsuit was filed last week against graphics card maker Nvidia over...
