Judge Allison H. Goddard (S.D. Cal. Case No.: 3:22-cv-01861-AHG) granted final approval of a $153 million settlement between life insurance policyholders and beneficiaries. The life insurance company is required to implement proper procedures to comply with California law, to ensure that current and future policyholders receive proper notices for lapses, grace periods and termination [...]
Nicholas & Tomasevic, LLP is pleased to announce that the Southern District of California has now finally approved the hard-fought settlement reached with Flowers Foods to resolve the claims of the certified class of Distributors in the Ludlow v. Flowers Foods, et al. matter. The settlement entails about $135 million in gross payouts to [...]
Nicholas & Tomasevic, along with co-counsel Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho and Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, are court-appointed Class Counsel in Munguia-Brown v. Equity Residential, a certified class action challenging the late fee that landlord Equity Residential has charged to over 100,000 of its California tenants for their late payment of [...]
Nicholas & Tomasevic and its consumer class action team just preliminarily secured another large recovery on behalf of tens of thousands of consumers - this time for tenants of Invitation Homes living across eleven U.S. States including California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. On November 29, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District [...]
A California federal judge granted final approval Liberty Mutual's agreement to add about $30 million of additional retirement benefits to plans held by Nicholas & Tomsaevic's clients, settling Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims the insurer misled employees about how time spent at an acquired company would factor into their retirement benefits. Read the full article [...]
After three hard fought years of litigation, Nicholas & Tomasevic secured a near-$16 million settlement on behalf of a certified class of Matco Tools Franchisees who were classified as independent contractors and not provided with the usual protections employees receive under California law like reimbursements for business expenses, overtime, and wage statements. Under the [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT Yet another California consumer has retained Nicholas & Tomasevic to take legal action against an insurer for the wrongful cancellation of a life insurance policy. The case, Leonard Rogoff v. Transamerica Life Insurance Company, is currently pending in the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside (Case No. CVRI2402538). As in dozens of [...]
A $30 million class action settlement will benefit purchasers of Align probiotic supplement, which was allegedly advertised as having "clinically proven" digestive health benefits without the clinical data to prove such claims. Class Members of the Align probiotic settlement include all U.S. consumers who purchased Align for personal or household use between March 1, 2009 [...]
If you are or were a tenant of an Equity Residential property in California at any time from September 3, 2010 to October 23, 2017, and your lease said that you could be charged a late fee of 5% of your outstanding balance or $50, whichever is greater, and you were charged a late fee [...]
