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Class Actions

Working individually or as part of larger group of attorneys, lawyers from our firm have achieved significant, substantive relief for their clients and the class members they represent. We are connected to a network of class-action litigators across the country and litigate Class Actions across the United States. Members of our firm are admitted in California and Colorado. Some of significant class actions have included:

  • Ruderman v. Washington Nat. Ins. Co., 263 F.R.D. 670 (S.D. Fla. 2010)(pending). Co-Lead Counsel; winning class certification for elderly long term care insurance policyholders. Court rejected defendant's argument that extrinsic evidence was admissible to dispel a patent ambiguity in an insurance policy. Defendant's Rule 23(f) petition to appeal has been denied. Case is stayed pending settlement talks.
  • Saltzman, et al., v. Pella Windows, Case No. No.: 06 C 4481 (ND Ill.)(pending) Prevailing against a high-end window manufacturer on a highly contested class certification motion granted for a multi-state class. The federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the lower court's class certification decision.
  • Collier, et al. v. Fred O. Dickinson, et al., Case No. 04-21351-CIV (S.D. Fl.)-Class settlement valued at $10-18 million for a class of drivers whose personal information was allegedly sold to private marketers by the State of Florida.
  • Fresco et al., v. Auto Data Direct, et al., Case No. 03-cv-61063-JEM (S.D. Fl.)—Nationwide injunctive class settlement composed of over 200 million Americans whose personal information was allegedly brokered in violation of federal privacy laws. The settlement requires companies to implement extensive programs and policies to protect consumers' privacy, and to stop alleged misuse of their personal information. 
  • Curry v. Fairbanks Capital Corporation, Case No. 03-10875-DPW (D. Mass.)—Winning $55 million settlement on behalf of nationwide class of borrowers who were allegedly subject to predatory lending.
  • Thomas J. Dolan v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Case No. 51-2002-CA-001245, in the Circuit Court for Pasco County, Florida, and Melissa Dukes v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Case No. CV-2002-270, in the Circuit Court for Phillips County, Arkansas—Winning nationwide class settlement including approximately 5 million class members.  Based on expert testimony, relief to the class was valued at over $144,000,000.
  • Yolanda M. Spund, et al. v. Associates Financial Services, Case No. 3D01-2454 (3rd DCA Fla.)—Achieving settlement of class case consisting of 5000 members and a settlement fund of $2.5 million.
  • Hernandez v. GE Capital Consumer Card Co., Case Nos. 00-4828-CIV-SEITZ and 01-23566 (S.D. Fla. and Fla. Cir. Ct.)—Winning $67 million settlement of national payment posting class action against credit card banks.
  • A successful Class Action involving the Unsolicited Mailings of Samples to consumers of the popular antidepressant drug, Prozac. 

For more detailed information on the law firm’s class and consumer litigation experience, please click here to view a resume listing complex, consumer and class litigation matters.


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