Types of Class Actions

Wage and hour violations
Failure to pay overtime
Predatory lending practices
Improper banking practices (improper late fees)
Improper credit card practices (improper late fees)
Insurance company overcharges
Telephone / cell phone company overcharges
Automotive industry practices (auto dealer vs. manufacturer actions)
Airline industry (unfair ticket billing practices)
False advertising
Consumer fraud
Qui tam actions
Antitrust violations
Defective computers
Defective electronic devices
Defective consumer products

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Class Action News

KCR CLASS ACTION BREAKING NEWS: Court certifies class action against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of associate accountants seeking overtime. READ MORE

KCR INVESTIGATION:
KCR investigating potential class actions against other Big 4 Accounting Firms for possible wage and hour violations. GO TO
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KCR CLASS ACTION NEWS: Wage and hour class action filed against Fremont-Rideout Health Group. READ MORE

Antitrust Violations

Federal and state antitrust laws are designed to protect and promote fair competition among businesses. The laws in this area prohibit price fixing and other forms of anticompetitive conduct. Competition between businesses benefits consumers by ensuring lower prices and new and better products, and encourages businesses to find better ways to produce and promote their products.

Consumers lose the benefits of competition when business competitors agree to:

Fix prices
Rig bids
Allocate (divide up) customers

Private consumers have to pay artificially high prices when businesses make such anticompetitive deals with each other.

Under federal law, businesses or individuals who purchased goods or services directly from the company that violated the antitrust laws are typically entitled to payment of damages. However, since most products pass through the hands of distributors, wholesalers, or retailers before reaching the consumer, most claims for damages under the federal laws can only be brought by businesses, not private consumers who paid inflated prices.

On the other hand, many state antitrust laws, including California’s, allow consumers and other end-users of products to recover damages caused by anticompetitive conduct, even if they did not purchase the goods directly from the business that violated the antitrust laws. Damages may include payment of 3 times the actual loss to the consumer (also called “treble damages”), plus court costs and attorney’s fees.

Attorneys at Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff have played prominent roles in many antitrust actions on behalf of both businesses and consumers. To contact an antitrust attorney at Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff, please fill out and submit the contact form on this page for a free case evaluation or call us toll-free at (888) 285-3333.