Consumer Protection
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. should have to pay for injuries sustained by a Colorado family when the battery of a Galaxy S7 cellphone produced by the Korean electronics maker allegedly overheated and caught fire, according to a complaint removed to federal court on Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The widow of a Reed Smith LLP partner who had been taking a GlaxoSmithKline antidepressant when he killed himself asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the case against the drugmaker, which was initially held liable for the death until a Seventh Circuit appeals panel threw out the verdict… Read this piece in…
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Panasonic Corp. and several other electronics companies will pay more than $33 million to indirect buyers of resistors used in common electronic devices under the terms of proposed antitrust settlements filed in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Expedia Inc. wrongly hiked the amount of “taxes and fees” charged to customers of third-party hotel booking sites and wrongly kept whatever wasn’t due to the government, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in federal court in Washington state… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A certified class of football fans on Wednesday released details of an agreement with the NFL’s Rams under which the team would pay up to $24 million to end claims it didn’t properly remunerate certain ticketholders after a 2015 decision to move from St. Louis to Los Angeles… Read this piece in its entirety at…
Mike LaSusa 