By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Plaintiff's purchase of a used vehicle qualified as a consumer transaction even though a small percentage of his mileage was for commercial purposes. Defendant violated consumer protection law by failing to disclose problems with the vehicle.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 11, 2017
As its independent, single-director design continues to come under attack, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this week trumpeted a judge's recent refusal to toss the agency's allegations that student loan servicer Navient Corp. mishandled payments and its communications with borrowers.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
The plaintiff bank failed to sufficiently plead a cause of action of an account stated against defendant based on a credit card account where the bank's pleading simply stated that it had made demand upon defendant for payment and defendant refused to pay. The court granted in part defendant's preliminary objections.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 9, 2017
The settlement came after the states claimed Nationwide and a subsidiary failed to apply a critical security patch to its network that could have protected it from the cyberattack.
By P.j. D'Annunzio | August 8, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a nascent class action against vitamin and nutritional supplement chain GNC alleging the company's website violated New Jersey state consumer law.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 7, 2017
Navient, the federal government's student loan servicer, can't shake claims that it mishandled students' payments and miscommunicated with them about repayment plans, a federal judge has ruled.
By Ross Todd | August 7, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling that supported customers' reading of an ambiguously worded product pricing clause in an agreement governing online grocery sales.
By Max Mitchell | August 3, 2017
The father of a man who died from an opiate-related overdose has asked the Pennsylvania Superior Court to reinstate his case against drugmaker Teva, over the marketing of its powerful fentanyl lozenge Actiq.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
Superior Court erred in reversing the trial court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on whether there was a fiduciary relationship between the parties because a fiduciary relationship arose in the context of consumer transactions only if one party ceded decision-making authority to the other party and that did not occur in this case. Reversed in part.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
Res judicata/collateral estoppel barred plaintiffs from litigating tort claims in state court after those claims were dismissed in federal court under the gist of the action and economic loss doctrines. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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