Editor’s note: Earlier this month, I posted an entry entitled Class Action Claims Aggregators, the Latest Innovation in Entrepreneurial Litigation, an admittedly glib post that inaccurately described the phenomenon of private companies aggregating class action settlement claims for clients as a new one. As it turns out, these services have existed for years. Adam Savett, attorney and Director [...]
Posts Tagged ‘securities class action’
Setting the Record Straight on Class Action Claims Aggregators
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, tagged antitrust class action, claims compensation bureau, class action claims aggregator, class action settlement, securities class action on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Class Action Claims Aggregators, the Latest Innovation in Entrepreneurial Litigation
Posted in Class Action Trends, tagged class action aggregator, class action settlement, investor, liquidclaims, sec enforcement, securities class action, securities fraud, settlement administrator, settlement claim on April 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An article published Tuesday by John D’Antona Jr. at Trader’s Magazine Online News entitled Getting a Piece of the Class Action Pie discusses a creative new idea for making a buck on class action settlements. The article discusses a service offered by a New Jersey financial technology company called LiquidClaims, Inc. According to the article, LiquidClaims has an algorithm that matches [...]
Cornerstone Research Issues Annual Report on Securities Class Action Settlements
Posted in Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, Securities Class Actions, tagged "plaintiff-style" damages, accounting principles, class action settlement, cornerstone research, institutional investor, pslra, reform act, securities class action, securities class action settlement on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Cornerstone Research published its annual report titled Securities Class Action Settlements–2010 Review and Analysis. Among the findings in this year’s report: The number of approved securities class action settlements was at a 10-year low The total dollar value of settlements decreased 17% from 2009 to 2010, The median settlement amount was up 40%, but the average [...]
Workplace and Securities Class Action Trends
Posted in Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged class action report, employment class action, employment litigation, m & a class action, securities class action, wage and hour class action, workplace class action, workplace litigation on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m late for my Inns of Court dinner, so time does not permit me to elaborate in detail, but I wanted to point out two recent class action-related reports of note. Be sure to check them out. 1) Seyfarth Shaw’s Seventh Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. 2) Cornerstone Research, Securities Class Action Filings, 2010 [...]
Supreme Court Adds a Fourth Class Action Case to its Docket
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Federal Civil Procedure, Federal Court Decisions, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged burden of proof, class certification, erica p. john fund, fraud on the market, halliburton, price inflation, scotus, securities class action, securities fraud, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Instead of a trilogy of class action decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, it looks like there will be a “quadrilogy“! For the fourth time in the October 2010 Term, the Court has granted certiorari in a class action-related case. Today, the Court granted cert in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., No. 09-1403. The [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Periodic Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Consumer Class Actions, Employment Class Actions, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged all writs act, ascertainability, AT&T Mobility, class action waiver, class arbitration waiver, collateral estoppel, concepcion, consumer class action, expert witness discovery, fast food class action, hooters, mcdonald's class action, oppression remedy, rule 26(a)(2), securities class action, wage and hour class action on November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s back! We can’t promise that it will appear weekly, so we changed the name to Class Action Blogosphere “Periodic” Review. But, as always, we have combed through our favorite blogs and news feeds to bring our readers up to speed on a some of the notable developments in class action news. The End of [...]
NERA Economic Consulting Reports on Securities Class Action Trends in Australia
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged australia class action, australian class action, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, NERA, securities class action on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NERA Economic Consulting has published its first study on trends in securities class actions in Australia. The study covers a variety of topics, including numbers of filings, industries targeted, and settlement amounts. However, what I found to be of particular interest is the study’s focus on the impact of private litigation funding.
Supreme Court Justices Take on Foreign-Cubed Problem
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged f-cubed, foreign cubed, morrison, scotus, securities class action, Supreme Court, transnational class action on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in the foreign cubed securities class action Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., Case No. 08-1191. A copy of the transcript is available on the Court’s website. Professor Hannah L. Buxbaum, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington, has [...]
Vivendi Verdict Thickens Plot in Foreign-Cubed Class Action Battle
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Securities Class Actions, Uncategorized, tagged f-cubed, foreign cubed, international class action, morrison, securities class action, securities fraud, transnational class action, vivendi on February 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
As reported by a variety of news outlets, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, on January 29, a federal jury found French conglomerate Vivendi liable for securities fraud, setting the stage for a potential multi-billion dollar damages award. In 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York had made headlines [...]
NERA Economic Consulting Issues Report on Securities Class Actions in Canada
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, NERA, ontario class action, secondary market liability, securities class action on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, NERA Economic Consulting issued a working paper entitled Trends in Canadian Securities Class Actions: 2009 Update. The paper covers offers a variety of figures and statistics on cases being pursued, time to resolution, the values of settlements reached in 2009, the exposure represented by cases still pending, and the number of cases with parallel U.S. proceedings. [...]

