Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$12.5 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
The firm served as co-lead counsel and obtained a settlement of
$12.5 million with McDonald's in 2002 stemming from its failure to
disclose the use of beef fat in its french fries.
Berger & Montague, led by Shareholders Sherrie Savett and
Michael...
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
The firm filed a complaint that was later consolidated
into the master multidistrict litigation (MDL). Claims in the
MDL were focused on: (1) products liability claims against
Bridgestone/Firestone for faulty tires; and (2) diminution in value
(DIV)...
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Berger & Montague serves on the Executive Committee of this
multidistrict litigation. In August 2008, it was learned that
a senior financial advisor formerly employed by Countrywide stole
confidential information of millions of consumers from...
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
The firm served as co-lead counsel and obtained a settlement in
2005 whereby persons who contracted food poisoning at a business
convention at the hotel recovered $1,500 each.
Plaintiff filed her Class Action Complaint on March 1,
2004. The Complaint...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$11.1 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Berger & Montague served on the plaintiffs' steering
committee and obtained an $11.1 million settlement in 2006 on
behalf of persons who were incorrectly scored on a teacher's
licensing exam.
Plaintiffs alleged that Educational Testing Service...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$2.4 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Berger & Montague serves on the Steering Committee in this
multi-district litigation. The case has been settled, pending
court approval.
Heartland processes credit and debit card transactions for more
than 150,000 merchants nationwide. The...
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
In 2003, Berger & Montague filed a class action suit
against American Isuzu Motors, Inc. and Isuzu Motors Ltd. on behalf
of purchasers or lessees of 1998 and 1999 Isuzu Amigo and Rodeo
automobiles who incurred economic damages in connection with...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$24 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
The firm is one of plaintiffs' co-lead counsel in this
multidistrict class action suit seeking to redress the harm
resulting from the manufacture and sale of contaminated dog and cat
food.
Certain defendants recalled wheat gluten and/or rice protein...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$2 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
The firm served as co-lead counsel in litigation brought on
behalf of a nationwide class under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud
Act, N.J.S.A. §56:8-1 et seq. The case involved
1997-1999 Audi A4 vehicles equipped with 1.8 liter turbocharged
engines.
The...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$3.6 billion
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Berger & Montague was one of three firms to represent the
State of Connecticut in a separate action in state court against
the tobacco companies. The case was litigated separate from
the coordinated nationwide actions. Although eventually...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$200 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
In 2007, Berger & Montague filed class action suits on
behalf of all consumers in the United States whose personal and
financial data were stolen by computer hackers from the computer
network of TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX).
The complaints alleged...
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Class action for disruption of service and loss of electronic data including photos, contacts, calendar entries, etc.
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$1 billion
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
In 1997, Berger & Montague filed a class action complaint
that was different from the complaints filed by any other of the
filing law firms in the New Jersey State Court "Fen Phen" class
action. The class sought in the firm's complaint was...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$222 million
Practice Area(s):
Consumer Protection
Berger & Montague, P.C., and its co-counsel, initiated an
action in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
against defendants Volkswagen of America, Inc. and Volkswagen of
America, Inc. d/b/a Audi of America, Inc. The action was...