Business/Finance

March 25, 2020 A proposed class action claims TD Bank's practice of charging customers a fee to receive paper account statements violates New York law.

March 4, 2020 A class action claims John Hancock has loaded its employee retirement plan with its own poor-performing, high-cost investment products.

March 3, 2020 A lawsuit claims EquiAlt and several co-conspirators have executed a "classic Ponzi scheme" that has scammed over 1,000 investors out of more than $170 million.

March 2, 2020 A class action lawsuit claims JPMorgan Chase & Co. illegally used unsolicited marketing calls to promote AARP credit cards.

February 27, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit claims Bank of America charges customers a three-percent international transaction fee on fees assessed by foreign ATM operators.

February 24, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit claims PNC bank has assessed unlawful overdraft fees for transactions that have not overdrawn a customer’s account.

February 19, 2020 A class action looks to represent 2017-2020 season ticket holders subjected to a "deficient product on the field" due to the Houston Astros stealing opposing pitchers' signs.

February 19, 2020 A class action suit claims Santander charged illegal “pay-to-pay” fees on debt payments made online or over the phone.

February 10, 2020 A lawsuit claims Bank of America, U.S. Bank, and Key Bank falsely represented that bonds issued to the plaintiffs by Rainier Bank and Seattle-First National Bank were "worthless."

February 10, 2020 Comerica Bank and Elan Financial face a class action over allegations the companies enrolled customers in overdraft protection without permission as a ploy to charge related fees.

February 4, 2020 BPPR has been named in a class action in which a man claims he was unlawfully charged three separate fees for a single transaction for which he had insufficient funds.

January 20, 2020 A class action claims First Savings Bank charged overdraft fees on transactions that did not actually overdraw consumers’ accounts.

January 14, 2020 U.S. Bancorp is facing a lawsuit over allegations it failed to pay certain managers for off-the-clock work.

January 7, 2020 A proposed class action claims Response Marketing Group terminated approximately 600 employees without providing mandatory prior notification.

December 23, 2019 A lawsuit claims Rosebud Lending charged up to 790 percent interest on small-dollar loans while purporting to operate as an extension of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

December 4, 2019 A class action claims Experian and GM Financial failed to investigate and correct inaccurate information contained in consumer credit reports.

November 27, 2019 A proposed class action claims JPMorgan Chase improperly delivered the funds from uncashed cashier's checks to Ohio and caused the owners of the property to not be notified of their entitlement to collect it.

November 21, 2019 Earnin is at the center of a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company behind the cash advance app has attempted to skirt lending regulations by disguising fees and interest as a purportedly optional “tip.”

November 15, 2019 A class action claims HSBC Bank charged multiple insufficient funds fees on single items in violation of its contracts with customers.

November 6, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Prudential failed to act in the best interests of investors in the company’s defined contribution 401(k) plan by loading the retirement plan with high-cost, underperforming funds.

November 1, 2019 A proposed class action alleges State Farm Life Insurance Company has unlawfully depleted the value of customers’ life insurance policies by charging excessive “cost of insurance” deductions.

October 28, 2019 A class action lawsuit alleges The Goldman Sachs Group and its employee retirement plan committee loaded the plan with underperforming, company-managed mutual funds instead of acting in participants’ best interests.

October 16, 2019 A proposed class action claims PNC Merchant Services Company, LP assesses annual fees on its merchant customers despite representing in a standard form contract that such fees will only be charged “as needed.”

October 9, 2019 A class action alleges Bitfinex and Tether colluded to manipulate the cryptocurrency market in a scheme investors say amounted to “part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering."

October 4, 2019 A proposed class action alleges that CareerBuilder allowed its investment advisor and the recordkeepers of the company’s retirement plan to reap “excessive and unreasonable" fees.

October 2, 2019 The Western Union Company has been hit with a proposed class action in which a Pennsylvania man claims the financial services firm paid out his remittance transfer to the wrong recipient and mishandled the error resolution process.

September 26, 2019 A class action claims City National Bank of West Virginia violated its own terms of service by charging customers multiple fees for purchases made with insufficient funds.

September 11, 2019 A Caesars stockholder alleges in a class action that the casino operator and Eldorado Resorts omitted material information from an SEC registration statement pertaining to a merger.

August 26, 2019 Equifax is faced with a class action suit for allegedly allowing disputed information to be included on consumer credit reports without including a notification of dispute.

August 21, 2019 A small Chicago-based business alleges Apple subsidiary Claris International charges illegal sales tax for licenses for FileMaker Pro..

July 30, 2019 Capital One faces a proposed class action lawsuit over a March 2019 data breach that affected the sensitive information of more than 100 million card holders.

July 25, 2019 Bethpage Federal Credit Union is in the crosshairs of a proposed class action filed over its alleged practice of charging multiple non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees for the same transaction.

July 22, 2019 A New York consumer challenges U.S. Bank, N.A.'s alleged practice of charging a $5 administrative fee to mortgage borrowers to make payments over the phone or online.

July 16, 2019 Wells Fargo Bank is caught in the crosshairs of a proposed class action lawsuit filed by a man who claims the bank unlawfully refuses to approve auto loans for non-U.S. citizens who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status.

July 10, 2019 Wintrust Financial Corporation has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over its allegedly abusive practice of charging multiple non-sufficient funds fees (NSF) for a single transaction.

June 24, 2019 Comenity Bank faces a proposed class action in which a consumer claims to have received more than 750 unauthorized calls from the institution over a two-month stretch.

June 12, 2019 First American Financial Corporation and its title insurance arm face a class action stemming from the leak of more than 885 million home buyer and seller records.

June 4, 2019 JP Morgan Chase Bank's alleged non-disclosure of how its purportedly interest-free grace period for new credit card purchases actually works is the subject of a proposed class action.

June 4, 2019 Comenity Bank's alleged practice of placing supposedly urgent calls to debtors' friends and family is the subject of a proposed class action lawsuit in Florida.

May 28, 2019 A lawsuit filed in the wake of a data exposure claims that First American Financial Corporation failed to adequately protect customer information.

May 21, 2019 A class action claims that despite advertising its free tax-filing service specifically for military personnel, TurboTax maker Intuit steered qualified military members away from the service.

May 20, 2019 Huntington Ingalls Industries faces a lawsuit that claims it failed to provide alternative retirement benefits of equal value to single life annuities.

May 17, 2019 A lawsuit claims that Singles Swag renewed California customers’ accounts without first advising them of its terms of service and cancellation policy.

May 15, 2019 A California ButcherBox customer has filed a proposed class action that claims the food subscription service violated state law with its renewal policy.

May 15, 2019 Ticketmaster finds itself facing a lawsuit over claims that its resale practices constitute anticompetitive behavior under California law.

May 13, 2019 Sterling Jewelers faces a proposed class action over its alleged practice of signing customers up for store-brand credit cards without consent.

May 13, 2019 [UPDATE] According to a class action, TurboTax intentionally hid from qualified taxpayers a feature that would allow them to file their tax returns with the IRS for free.

May 7, 2019 An Anheuser-Busch retirement plan participant alleges he's been deprived of rightful benefits due to the companies' use of an outdated mortality table to calculate annuity equivalences.

April 1, 2019 A class action seeks to address various alleged labor, consumer and unfair competition law violations related to Amazon Home Services.

March 29, 2019 Rite Aid Corporation has been hit with a proposed class action in California that claims the drugstore chain collects donations from customers without their consent.