Business/Finance

March 18, 2022 The companies responsible for military housing at Fort Belvoir in suburban Washington, D.C. face a class action lawsuit over the allegedly “shameful” conditions they’ve allowed to proliferate on the base.

March 16, 2022 A class action alleges online payday lender FirstLoan.com has illegally tried to skirt Illinois usury laws by claiming to be affiliated with a small Native American tribe.

March 15, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Coinbase has failed to disclose that 79 crypto tokens bought and sold on its platform are, in fact, unregistered securities.

March 14, 2022 A class action alleges The Vanguard Group harmed taxable investors financially when the firm caused an “elephant stampede” sell-off of the assets of certain target-date funds in December 2020.

March 14, 2022 Six former United employees allege in a class action that the airline has prevented certain eligible retirees from participating in a “voluntary separation” leave program offered amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 11, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms failed to share with investors the extent to which new Apple iOS privacy protections would harm the social media platform’s advertising business.

March 9, 2022 A class action alleges Ericsson misled investors over nearly five years by overstating the extent to which it had eliminated its reliance on bribes to secure business in foreign countries.

March 8, 2022 A class action alleges enterprise artificial intelligence provider C3.ai misled investors by failing to disclose prior to its IPO that a key business partnership was "deteriorating."

March 8, 2022 A class action alleges Rivian misled investors in the run-up to its Nov. 2021 IPO by failing to disclose that it would have to raise prices shortly thereafter on more than 55,000 preorders.

March 7, 2022 A lawsuit alleges CUSIP Global Services, S&P Global, FactSet Research Systems and the American Bankers Association have conspired to eliminate competition for the use of CUSIPs, an identification number system for securities.

March 4, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Freedom Home Loans has illegally called and sent text messages to consumers whose phone numbers are in the National Do Not Call Registry.

March 4, 2022 LendingClub faces a class action that alleges the online lender has run afoul of Penn. law by charging on certain loans interest and fees that exceed six percent simple interest per year.

March 2, 2022 A class action alleges PayPal has misrepresented to consumers the “real and repeated” risks of using its buy-now-pay-later Pay in 4 service.

February 21, 2022 A Georgia resident alleges Wells Fargo Bank’s mortgage origination and underwriting practices “intentionally and disproportionately” discriminate against African American home loan applicants.

February 21, 2022 A New York restaurant has filed a class action in which it alleges Manhattan Beer Distributors, LLC has engaged in “widespread billing fraud” against small businesses.

February 11, 2022 Bank of America faces a class action after allegedly failing to refund punitive overdraft and insufficient funds fees despite promising to do so.

February 10, 2022 A class action alleges Republic Services has overcharged customers through two “separate, but related coordinated schemes” involving unlawful, automated rate increases and excessive "fuel recovery fees.”

February 9, 2022 A New Jersey company alleges in a class action that Itria Ventures has engaged in a number of fraudulent practices with regard to loans and other transactions.

February 3, 2022 An Alabama homeowners association alleges Rouland Management Services, Pacific Western Bank and Union Bank wrongfully misappropriated member dues.

January 31, 2022 A class action alleges American Income Life Insurance Company fraudulently used a customer’s checking account to complete the policy sign-up process for her sister.

January 31, 2022 A class action alleges Genworth Life Insurance Co.'s failure to disclose the scope of a plan to substantially increase long-term care insurance premiums has prevented policyholders from making informed decisions.

January 27, 2022 A class action alleges West Side Lending has attempted to hide behind a purported affiliation with the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin in making loans with usurious interest rates.

January 26, 2022 Fluor Corporation faces a class action that alleges the firm and its board of directors are to blame for significant 401(k) plan losses.

January 21, 2022 Boston Children's Hospital and its retirement plan committee face a class action over allegedly excessive recordkeeping and administrative costs incurred by participants.

January 19, 2022 A class action claims FirstCash Holdings has run afoul of federal securities laws by withholding from investors that it issued thousands of illegal loans to active-duty military service members.

January 19, 2022 A class action alleges NRx Pharmaceuticals was not forthcoming to investors with regard to the prospects of a purported COVID-19 treatment being approved for emergency use.

January 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges PayPal has unilaterally seized funds from users’ accounts without cause or any fair or due process.

January 17, 2022 A class action alleges John Deere has monopolized the repair service market for its agricultural equipment by making critical software and tools inaccessible to farmers and independent repair shops.

January 13, 2022 The Quantum Group USA faces a class action over its sale of life insurance policies linked to structured cash flow products found to be nothing more than illegal usurious loans.

January 13, 2022 A class action alleges Wells Fargo has failed to provide health plan participants and their beneficiaries with proper notice of their right to continued insurance coverage following a qualifying event.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges The Athletic has automatically renewed North Carolina customers’ monthly subscriptions without providing requisite disclosures and receiving authorization to do so.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges Round Table Physicians Group has unlawfully placed hospital liens on consumers who have been injured in a car accident.

January 10, 2022 Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pierce and others face a class action that alleges the parties misled consumers who invested in EthereumMax (EMAX) cryptocurrency tokens.

January 7, 2022 A class action alleges Bright Lending wrongfully holds itself out as owned and operated by a Native American tribe so as to charge borrowers exorbitant interest rates on small loans.

January 7, 2022 Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster face a class action over the alleged monopoly they hold over the primary and secondary ticket and concert promotion markets in the U.S.

January 5, 2022 A class action alleges the NFL and the NY Giants and NY Jets have “siphoned” billions from interstate commerce by branding the New Jersey-located franchises as New York teams.

December 20, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Bank of America, N.A. has failed to protect prepaid debit cards containing New Jersey residents’ unemployment benefits from fraud.

December 17, 2021 A class action alleges Drive New Jersey Insurance Company and Progressive Garden State Insurance Company have shirked their promise to pay insureds the actual cash value of a total-loss vehicle.

December 14, 2021 A class action alleges payday lender AvailBlue has operated what can be described as a rent-a-tribe scheme to charge usurious interest rates on small loans.

December 6, 2021 Lightspeed Commerce faces a class action that alleges the e-commerce software provider has issued materially false and misleading statements since September 2020.

November 29, 2021 A class action alleges USAA Federal Savings Bank has overcharged servicemembers on interest and fees, and consequently inflated their principal balances.

November 22, 2021 Atlantic Union Bank faces a class action over its apparent practice of stacking multiple fees on a single transaction that was rejected due to insufficient funds.

November 18, 2021 Zillow faces a securities class action following the announcement that it will wind down its Zillow Offers home-flipping business.

November 17, 2021 Sixty-five plaintiffs allege Constellation Network has refused to allow investors to participate in a “swap” of the company’s original cryptocurrency token to its second token.

November 17, 2021 A class action alleges Meta has falsely touted its ability and commitment to prevent the spread of misinformation, criminal activity and other toxic content while concealing its alleged dependence on that content.

November 16, 2021 A Dallas consumer alleges Coinbase failed to safeguard his account against unauthorized cryptocurrency transactions and then locked him out.

November 8, 2021 A class action looks to represent Mississippi Delta farmers who allege they were misled into believing Express Grain Terminals was prospering and financially stable during the Fall 2021 harvest.

November 3, 2021 A class action alleges Bank of America has used a fee-maximizing automated servicing platform to charge defaulted or at-risk-of-default borrowers for multiple, repetitive property inspections.

October 29, 2021 AmeriCU faces claims that it charged multiple overdraft fees on a single transaction and assessed overdrafts fee when customers did not overdraw their accounts.

October 29, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Citibank has unlawfully failed to timely present to county clerks in New York proof that mortgages have been satisfied.