Fogel v. Farmers Lawsuit Settlement summary:

www.FogelSettlement.com Lawsuit is entitled: Fogel v. Farmers Group, Inc., No. BC300142

Lawsuit summary:  Claims that Farmers Group Inc. charged excessive management fees and made too much money which is claimed to be in violation of California State Law.  Farmers denies all wrong doing and contend the fees were reasonable.

Class Members are Defined as:  anyone who between January 1, 1999, to December 31, 2010  purchased Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange, or Truck Insurance Exchange.

Important dates include: August 18, 2011 which is the last day to exclude or opt out of the lawsuit.  December 6, 2011 which is the date all claim forms are due.  All claim forms MUST be postmarked by that date.  September 7, 2011 is the date of the fairness hearing.  The hearing will be held at 9am PDT. 

Claim form?: Complete and submit a claim via www.fogelsettlement.com or by mail. 

The Allscripts Class Action Lawsuit revolved around claims that Allscripts broke federal securities laws when it went live with the newest version of its EHR clinical software, Touchworks.  Allscripts denied all wrong doing. 

The Allscripts class action complaint claims that the defendants failed to disclose the following information:

* Allscripts lacked the necessary resources to install V-11 software at customer sites; Allscripts had no historical basis to estimate the completion of V-11 or the impact V-11 sales might have on the company’s 2007 revenues and earnings;
* The complexity of V-11 had materially and adversely lengthened the sales cycle and revenue recognition cycle for the company’s V-11 sales contracts;
* Allscripts was currently experiencing adverse and continuing delays in the installation of V-11 software systems;
* Based on the foregoing, defendants had no reasonable basis for their statements concerning Allscripts’ current and future financial performance and projections.

The case was filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and represented anyone who between May 8, 2007 and Feb. 13, 2008 purchased the common stock of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.

A class action complaint was filed against Verasun on November 10, 2010 out of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Shareholders of Verasun filed this class action lawsuit and claim that the firm failed to disclose information about the company that would of made shareholders aware of certain risks that Verasun was undertaking at the time.  The failure to disclosure statements in question were made between March 12, 2008, to Sept. 16, 2008.  The plaintiffs are alleging that VeraSun knew or should have known of these risks and failed to inform its investors about these risks and the consequences should the risks materialize.

This is a prefect example of a failure to disclose lawsuit litigation that continues to happen today.  See http://www.classactionsettlementnews.com/juniper-networks-securities-class-action-lawsuit-complaint, very similar complaints.

Juniper Networks, Inc is in some trouble over complaints that the firm made false and misleading statements in violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and other securities laws.  The Juniper Networks Securities Class Action Lawsuit Complaint claims that Juniper failed to disclose negative business reporting trends and made false statements about the financial well being of the firm. 

The case is under the jursidcition of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and includes all Juniper Networks and certain Juniper Networks officers and directors.

The crux of the lawsuit complaint revolves around the fact that investors were not informed that (a) Juniper was allegedly losing market share in its security business to its competitors due to technical issues with certain products and turnover in its sales force; (b) Juniper was allegedly forced to dramatically lower prices, which was having a material adverse effect on Juniper’s margins; (c) Juniper’s new product launches allegedly would not meaningfully contribute to Juniper’s operations until 2012.

Class members of the Juniper Networks Securities Class Action Lawsuit Complaint include persons who purchased Juniper Networks stock (ticker symbol JNPR) between the dates of July 20, 2010 and July 26, 2011.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Olive Garden over claims that potentially  thousands of customers were exposed to contaminated food due to an Olive Garden employee testing positive for Hepatitis A.  The location in question is a Olive Garden restaurant in Fayetteville, NC.  A Seattle based law firm will be in charge of the class action lawsuit and is seeking settlement terms due to customers experiencing  “lost wages, medical expenses, ‘fear of harm and humiliation’ and physical pain and injury” under the potential exposure.  The firm claims that Olive Garden was negligent by failing to require its employees to be vaccinated against hepatitis A, by failing to prevent an employee from working, and failing to provide safe food.  The lawsuit is seeking damages of over $10,000. 

Please contact the law firm of Marler Clark (www.marlerclark.com a firm that specializes in foodborne-illness litigation) if you were a customer and potentially exposed to Hepatitis A at the Olive Garden in question.  The Cumberland County medical clinic was providing free immunization shots up until August 22.

The comScore Privacy lawsuit is entitled Mike Harris, et al. v. comScore, Inc and revolves around claims that comScore Inc. gathered passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers from its customers without their knowledge.  The information is gathered and then sold to companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Best Buy and Yahoo.  It should be noted that the lawsuit does not include any of the companies who purchased the privacy information from comScore Inc..  The lawsuit claims comScore obtained the information when customers signed up for a sweepstakes or a free software offer.  To sign up for these offers or sweepstakes a customer had to provide private information. Once the private information was obtained comScore sold it for a profit…. a nice profit. 

The lawsuit also claims that screensavers and games, offered by comScore Inc., once downloaded would modify a customers firewall and allow comSocre access to secure private files within the computer.  Once the firewall is brethced it is pretty much impossbile to rid the computer of the software or so the lawsuit claims. 

Privacy lawsuit are becoming far to common in the age of technology, please be very careful about giving your private information out over the web.  The comScore Inc. Privacy Class Action Lawsuit is in the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.   No claim form is available at this time.  Please check back for updates.

The Columbia House, Book of the Month Club, and the Doubleday Book Club are in a class action lawsuit fight claiming they scammed customers by offering members one time membership deals that resulted in charging the customer inflated prices and harsh penalties.  This is not the kind of membership deal that the customers expected.   “Unbeknownst to many consumers, Defendants require that members purchase multiple books and/or movies at inflated ‘regular’ club prices in the year following registration. Additionally, unbeknownst to consumers, Defendants also impose penalty fees on members who fail to fulfill these purchase requirements for each of the Clubs.”  This case is in the jurisdiction of the United States District Court, Southern District of California and is entitled Martha Cornett v. Direct Brands, Inc. and Bookspan.

The Direct Brands and Bookspan Membership lawsuit class is defined as anyone who who enrolled in Defendants’ Clubs online. 

More details about the lawsuit can be found here.

Michael Patota v. CertainTeen Corporation is a federal class action lawsuit that revolves around claims that CertainTeed’s fiber cement siding has been “severely defective”. CertainTeed markets its WeathBoards Fiber Cement exterior siding as durable and long lasting… but is this marketing campaign true… class members of the CertainTeed WeatherBoard Fiber Cement Siding Class Action Lawsuit say no. If you have had CertainTeed WeatherBoard Fiber Cement Siding installed on your home anytime between now and 2002 you are considered a class member of this lawsuit. More details can be found here.