Www.VitaminCAntitrust.com – Vitamin C Antitrust Class Action Settlement

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Www.VitaminCAntitrust.com – Vitamin C Antitrust Class Action Settlement

The Vitamin C Antitrust Class Action Settlement which can be found at www.VitaminCAntitrust.com site is about price fixing. The claim is that the manufacturers of the Vitamin C tried to fix the price or raise the price or even maintain the price of any Vitamin C. This lawsuit is also known as the In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation. The case number is 1:06-MD-01738. There are three types of cases. The first is the Direct Purchaser Class, the Indirect Purchaser Class and the Injunctive Class.

You can be considered to be a part of the direct purchaser class if you bought Vitamin C or if you bought it for delivery in the U.S. You can also take part if you bought it directly from a Defendant or other Chinese manufacturers. The period that is covered is between December 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006. For the indirect purchasers, you can be a part of this if you bought capsules or tablets that have Vitamin C. You should have bought them foryou own use and not to sell it. You must also have bought it from December 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006. The third type of class, which is the Injunctive Class, you should have bought vitamin C that has been manufactured by a Defendant. You should have bought it directly from a Defendant and it should be for delivery in the U.S.  You should have done this between December 1, 2001 to now. You can get more details of this at www.VitaminCAntitrust.com site. 

Each of the different classes have different information in terms of deadlines and what to submit. In the direct class, you will have to submit a claim form by September 28, 2012.  If you want to request for exclusion, you have to do that by September 7, 2012. If you want to object, you will have to do that by September 27, 2012.  The Fairness Hearing for this is October 17, 2012.

For the indirect case, the deadlines for the request for exclusion, the objection to the settlement and the Fairness Hearing dates are the same as the direct class. However there is no information on deadlines for the claim form. So we do not know for sure when and if you should file claim forms for this class. For the Injunction Class, there is only information on the objection dates and the Fairness Hearing. Again these dates are similar to the Direct Class. So far, the only claim form that you can get is for the Direct Class at the website. You will be able to download a PDF version of the claim form.

There is also an FAQ that you can download. So if you have questions, this is where you should start as you will get detailed responses. For the Direct Class, the Defendants are Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Company, Weisheng Pharmaceutical and Aland Nutraceutical. You will get information on the attorneys who will be representing the Class.  Another piece of information that you may be interested to find out is the amount of the settlement. The one for the Direct class is $9,500,000. The Indirect class is $1,000,000. You have to remember that the settlements have not been finally approved yet.

You have to keep checking the website for the latest information as you can only file a claim form for the Direct Purchaser. You are not requested to attach documentation for this claim. However, do not get rid of them. Make sure you keep your invoices and other documentation because you may be asked to submit that later. There is also an address that you will have to send this to. At this moment, you will not be able to submit it online. You will have to print it out and send it via regular mail. When you do this, make sure that you submit by the due date. Otherwise you may not receive payment at all.

You will also be able to get the court documents and the settlement agreements at the website. You will be able to get this for all the different classes. There are complains here too that you will be able to view. All of these documents are in PDF form. So make sure that you have a PDF reader so that you can view them. If you do not have a PDF reader, you can easily download it from the Internet.

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Www.ChaseMinPaymentLawsuit.com – Chase Check Loan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

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Www.ChaseMinPaymentLawsuit.com – Chase Check Loan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

The Chase Check Loan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement has been preliminarily approved. This happened on August 9, 2012. So if you are eligible to take part, you will get a notice in the mail about it. You will be able to get the latest information on the www.ChaseMinPaymentLawsuit.com website. If you are not sure what this lawsuit is about of even if you are eligible, basically this lawsuit was filed against the Defendants because of promotional loan offers. The Chase credit card customers accepted loan offers that had fixed interest rate until it was completely paid off. However the customers received a Change In Terms notice that actually raised their minimum monthly payment. The payment went from 2% to 5%. Some even had to pay a $10 monthly on top of the fee hike.

The Plaintiff in this case felt that the fee hike was not lawful. The Defendants say that it was lawful. The Court has not yet decided who is right. However the Court believes that Chase did violate the good faith and fair dealing covenant. So if you do receive a notice in the mail, then you are considered a Class Member because you were subjected to the Change in Term notice that Chase sent out. The amount of the Chase Check Loan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement is $100 million. This money will be used to pay for a number of things. The first is that it will pay for the cost of sending you a notice. The money will also be used to pay for the Court appointed attorneys. In addition, the plaintiffs will be paid from this amount. You can get more detailed information on this at www.ChaseMinPaymentLawsuit.com site.

One good thing about this settlement is that you do not have to file a claim form. That can be tedious and a bit dangerous because you have to make sure that you fill out the information correctly. If you asked to fill out a claim form you also have to make certain that you provide all the documents that are needed. You also would have to submit the claim form within the time limit or before the deadline. Failure to do any of this will make your claim invalid. So it is great that you do not have to worry about any of that. What will actually happen is that you will get the Settlement check in the mail. What you will get is a $25 base payment. In addition to this, you will also get an additional payment. The amount of the additional payment depends on how affected you were by the Change in Terms. This means that the more you had to pay, the more you will get. So if you paid more transaction fees, how much of the balance you paid back before you received the Change in Terms and how long you had the loan before you got the Change in Term will all affect how much you receive. So you will definitely receive more than $25. How much more is what will be calculated and provided to you based on all the things that I mentioned.

There are 7 plaintiffs in this case and the Class Counsel has asked that each receive $7,000. The Class Counsel has also asked that 45 other plaintiffs be awarded $1,000 each. These plaintiffs filed similar cases. The Class Counsel will get 25% of the settlement fund and also litigation expenses. So this will be $25 million + $1.5 million. However, these amounts are amounts that have been requested. It does not mean that the Court will give it to them. The Court will determine how much to give to the Class Counsel and to the plaintiffs.

The Fairness Hearing will be held on November 16, 2012 in San Francisco, California. This is when the Court will decide on the details of the Chase Check Loan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement. This means that Court can decide on the attorneys fees and expenses and how much to give to the plaintiffs. This is also when the Court will decide whether to approval the settlement. This is also when people can appeal. If there are any appeals at all, no payment will be made until all the appeals have been settled.

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Www.Duragesic-Patch-Recall-lawsuit.com – Fentanyl Pain Patch Class Action Lawsuit

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Www.Duragesic-Patch-Recall-lawsuit.com – Fentanyl Pain Patch Class Action Lawsuit

There is a Fentanyl Patch partial recall and a Fentanyl Pain Patch Class Action Lawsuit  which you can find out more about at the http://www.duragesic-patch-recall-lawsuit.com site. So if you are using the Actavis Fentanyl Transdermal Systems, please stop using them. The 25 mcg/hr, 50 mch/hr, 75 mch/hr and the 100 mch/hr are being recalled immediately. Apparently there is a defect in the design that can cause high doses of it to be delivered to the patient. It goest right into the blood stream and can be fatal.

The problem with the packaging is that they may be a cut along one side of the drug reservoir. This is what can cause the overdose as the patient is exposed directly to the drug itself instead of it going through the patch. So if you know of a loved one who has died from an overdose such as this, you may be able to take part in the lawsuit on their behalf. You may also experience sever respiratory depression. There are many law firms right now who are taking these cases. One of them can be found at the http://www.duragesic-patch-recall-lawsuit.com site. 

Here there is a link to the FDA Duragesic Fentanyl Patch Recall. Even though people starting filing suits as early as 2008, lawsuits are still being filed for wrongful death. The most recent of this is the claim filed on June 19, 2012 by Tracy King on behalf of her sister Sonya Marshall who died on June 19, 2010. The reason for her death was Fentanyl toxicity. There are quite a few companies who produce the drug. Tracy actually filed the lawsuit against Alza Corp., Sandoz Inc., Sandoz Pharmaceuticals. She also sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Pharmaceutical Productsa dn Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. She also started that Sonya did not misuse the drug.

She claimed that even though there had been FDA warnings in 2004 and again in 2008 because of the defective packaging, the companies continued to produce the product as patches when there could be other safer methods of delivering the product.  There were partial recalls by the FDA but not full recalls of the products. She also said that the manufacturers knew about the dangers of the drug which is 80 times more potent than morphine. Fentanyl is used in many instances including as anesthesia. Other forms that it can be administered in include as a disc that dissolves in the mouth, a spray that can be sprayed under the tongue and the transdermal patch. The patch is used for chronic pain.

When the patch is used, it slowly release the medication. This happens over extended periods of time. This has actually helped those suffering from chronic pain. The side effects of taking the drug are different based on how you take it. Some of the major side effects include diarrhea, nausea, constipation and dry mouth. Other major side effects include confusion, weakness, sweating and abdominal pain. Some have also been known to have headaches, weight loss, dizziness, depression, aphasia, shortness of breath, indigestion, anxiety, hypoventilation. However, those side effects that are directly related to the patch include confusion, constipation, sweating, sleepiness, weakness, confusion and pain or redness. The serious side effects of using the patch are death, low blood pressure and breathing problems.

If you are using the Fentanyl Patch and have had any symptoms or side effects that are damaging, you may be able to get compensation by filing a lawsuit. There is a phone number that you can call at the website if you want to do that. You will be able to ask any questions that you want. So if you are not sure whether you can even file a suit, then you can ask them and make sure that you have a valid case. There is also a Free Case Evaluation form that you can fill out. If believe that someone you love died from using the patch, then you should definitely either fill out the form or call someone to find out what you can do and what your legal options are.  I think that you should file a lawsuit because if the side effects are this severe, then the patch should have been recalled a long time ago. The fact that the patch is still being manufactured by so many companies boggles my mind.

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eBook Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

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eBook Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

In the Connecticut eBook Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settlement, the amount that has been negotiated is $1.2 million. This amount is for all those people who overpaid for eBooks from three companies in Connecticut. The publishers are Hachette Book Group, Inc, HarperCollins Publishers LLC and Simon and Schuster Inc. There is a different case with non-setting publishers namely Penguin and MacMillan and Apple, Inc. This is pending int eh Southern District of New York. The total amount of the settlement is $69 million for everyone in other states too.

The eBook Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settlement came about because the publishers apparently decided to fix the prices of eBooks or electronic books that you can only get online.   The publishers agreed to raise the retail eBook prices for everyone. So it did not matter what outlet the person buying the eBook went to, the prices would all be the same. This is not fair to the consumer. Consumers have a right to shop around for the best product at the best price. If the price is fixed, then the consumers are not given a choice as to what they want to buy where because all the prices are the same anywhere.

The U.S. government conducted an antitrust investigation for two years before the settlement. It was discovered that the publishers prevented retail price competition. So this meant that everyone who bought the eBooks paid a whole lot more. So the settlement shows that the government is against this anticompetitive behavior. This investigation involved all the states and jurisdictions. So if you bought these eBooks between April 1, 2010 to May 21, 2012, then you may be entitled to get compensation. Out of this settlement also comes the agreement that certain retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble can reduce the price of the eBooks if they wanted to.

I think this is a good thing because many people nowadays buy eBooks. Initially I found it uncomfortable reading an eBook which you can download to your Kindle or your iPad or other mobile devices. The reason is that I kept turning the device over every time I got to the end of the page. It took me a while to flip instead of turn. I am so used to holding a book that it was odd to hold a device and read. Also I missed the feel and the smell of the book. Odd but true. I also missed being able to look at the cover.

However the more I read, I did discover some benefits. One of them is that I could read in the dark without disturbing anyone else. However what I love the most is that I do not have to drive to a bookstore to buy a new book. I also do not have to wait till the next day if I finish one book at night and want to start on another. Just today I was thinking that I had to drive to the bookstore to get another book. Then I thought, no I do not have to. So it is very convenient indeed. What I have also enjoyed is to be able to buy the books at a lower price than if I were to go to a retail store. So that made it so much more attractive.

If the price had been the same, I would have gone for the physical book. I am still struggling with my books being in the cloud. I want to touch them and feel them and see them. Not go to the cloud to see them. Anyway I am glad that there is a settlement in this case as I do not think that anyone should be allowed to fix the price of anything. This also takes away your freedom of choice as it no longer matters where you shop as the price are the same everywhere. That is a scary thought indeed. I want to be able to choose what to buy when. I want there to be competitive prices so that I do not overpay for stuff. If there is price fixing then the consumers get taken advantage of . I am glad this will not happen again with the eBooks.

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