Recent News About Anderson + Wanca
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A class action lawsuit accuses Lifetime, the company that operates the PeopleSmart online search engine of violating the Illinois Right of Publicity Act by selling subscriptions that allow people to access Illinois residents' personal information.
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The lawsuit is similar to previous lawsuits filed against other online personal information gathering sites, including Whitepages, Instant Checkmate, Intelius, Spokeo and others.
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Allegations include being slow to inform patients, failing to protect personal information
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Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit say Chicago-based Tressler and Georgia-based AssociationReady share too much information with third-party collection vendors when attempting to collect unpaid fees on behalf of condo associations.
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A new class action lawsuit says State Farm didn't pay the full amount of state transfer and title fees when replacing totaled vehicles, even though required by the state.
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The judges said no one "took the label to mean that there was absolutely nothing other than aloe vera in the bottle.”
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A Chicago federal judge has allowed Cirque Du Soleil to turn out the lights on a class action lawsuit accusing the entertainment brand brought against it for allegedly sending junk fax ads, allegedly in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
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A homeowner has filed a class action lawsuit against Bank of America, alleging she was assessed and forced to pay unauthorized inspection fees on a mortgaged property.
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A federal judge has taken to task a Chicago law firm for attempting to intervene in an endangered junk fax class action lawsuit, saying a motion the lawyers filed amounted to little more than an attempt to play “gotcha” games with the defendants in the case and the law.
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A federal judge has burned off two of three counts in a class action complaint facing Dollar General over claims the retailer’s aloe vera cooling gel didn’t actually contain aloe vera.
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A federal judge has shot down an attempt by a “professional class action plaintiff” chiropractic firm and their lawyers to pursue a junk fax class action worth potentially $200 million, saying the lack of honesty, at best, or sloppiness, at best, by the plaintiffs and their lawyers doomed their attempt to lead the lawsuit against a marketing company the judge noted had sent tens of thousands of junk fax ads.
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A panel of state appellate justices could have simply found an insurer wasn’t obligated to pay to cover a $4 million settlement reached to end a lawsuit brought by a suburban engineering firm that claimed it had received so-called “junk fax” advertisements. But the justices used the occasion to also send a message to the lawyers it says are responsible for a “proliferation” of potential junk class action lawsuits under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, brought in many cases, the jus
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In a sharply worded 2-1 decision, the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago overturned a lower court decision and barred a plaintiff from serving as representative in a class-action suit involving allegedly unsolicited faxes, describing the plaintiff as a "tool'"of his lawyer.
