With all the debate raging around healthcare these days, cases like this one must be particularly harmful to the reputation of companies like Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). It is common practice for profitable hospital chains to buy community hospitals to convert to profit status. These purchases typically include…
Super Lawyers named Chicago and Oak Brook business trial attorney Peter Lubin a Super Lawyer in the Categories of Class Action, Business Litigation and Consumer Rights Litigation. DiTommaso Lubin’s Oak Brook and Chicago business trial lawyers have over thirty years experience litigating complex class action, consumer rights and business and…
It’s amazing how one person’s idea can turn into a patent war between two major companies. In the case of Carter Bryant, an idea for dolls which began with some sketches in 1998 while he was living with his parents in Missouri, later turned into a major battle. Bryant went…
And the battle between Apple and Samsung rages on. The patent war, which began in April of 2011, when Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the District Court for the Northern District of California, has most recently been hit by a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark…
We bring suit for auto fraud and other car dealer scams such as selling rebuilt wrecks as certified used cars or misrepresenting a car as being in good condition when it is rebuilt wreck, was a flood damaged car or had the odometer rolled back. Super Lawyers has selected our…
We bring suit for auto fraud and other car dealer scams such as selling rebuilt wrecks as certified used cars or misrepresenting a car as being in good condition when it is rebuilt wreck, was a flood damaged car or had the odometer rolled back. Super Lawyers has selected our…
An appeals court reversed a trial court’s temporary injunction, which had prohibited a veterinarian from practicing within a thirty-mile radius of her former employer. The dispute in Heiderich, et al v. Florida Equine Veterinary Services, Inc. involved a veterinarian who, after termination of her employment by the plaintiff, established a…
After two years, Toyota has finally agreed to settle the class-action lawsuit regarding unintended acceleration in its vehicles. If approved, the settlement, filed in a Federal District Court in California, would make cash payments for the loss of value on vehicles affected by the multiple recalls. The settlement also includes…
Amid all the complaints against Facebook using private information, comes a story of success for Facebook users. Last year, five members of the social networking site filed a class action lawsuit against the company for allegedly using personal information, such as images of the users for sponsored stories. The users…
Once again the issue of what is required to certify a class for class-action litigation has been battled in court. In this case it went up to the Montana Supreme Court, which sided with the plaintiffs and agreed to certify the class. The case involves several property owners along…