August 14, 2017

Final Approval Granted in Hyland’s Class Action

On August 14, 2017, Judge Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval to the class action settlement in Forcellati v. Hyland’s, Inc. Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the lawsuit in 2012 alleging that Hyland’s misrepresented the efficacy of six of its homeopathic cold and flu medicines for children. The settlement followed mor...
July 17, 2017

Class Certification Granted in Bell + Howell Lawsuit

On July 7, 2017, Judge William H. Pauley III of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of purchasers of Bell + Howell Ultrasonic Pest Repellers. Judge Pauley also appointed Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as class counsel to represent the millions of Repeller purchasers. The case involves claims that Bell + Howell Ultrason...
May 24, 2017

KitchenAid Refrigerator Settlement Approved

approval to the class action settlement in Dei Rossi v. Whirlpool. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2012, alleging that Whirlpool misrepresented two of its refrigerators as Energy Star qualified when they were not. The settlement followed nearly five years of litigation and allowed each class member to receive a $55 cash payment to recoup the excess energy costs of their KitchenAid ref...
April 11, 2017

Payments Sent to NVIDIA GTX 970 Class Members

On April 11, 2017, the first round of payments were sent to class members as part of the $4.5 million settlement in In re NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation. The settlement was approved by Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on December 7, 2016, and provides for cash payments of $30 for each NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics chip purchas...
January 27, 2017

Bursor & Fisher Appointed Interim Class Counsel In Welspun Egyptian Cotton Litigation

On January 27, 2017, Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Southern District of New York appointed Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as interim class counsel in In re Welspun Litigation, a nationwide consumer class action against Welspun. The lawsuit alleges that Welspun falsely represented its linen products as “100% Egyptian Cotton,” when in fact these products are not made from 100% Egyptian Cotton. ...
January 18, 2017

Motion To Dismiss Retaliation Claims Granted

On January 18, 2017, Justice Salvatore Modica of the Supreme Court of New York, Queens County, granted the Defendants’ motion to dismiss a retaliation claim brought under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws against a small business, its owner, and an employee. In his Order, Justice Modica adopted the Defendants’ argument that “Plaintiff failed to make allegations that s...
December 14, 2016

$79 Million Sprint Settlement Approved

Yesterday Judge Winifred Smith of the Superior Court of California granted final approval to a $79 million settlement in Ayyad v. Sprint Spectrum, bringing an end to 13 years of litigation, including two jury trials and more than a dozen appeals. After a month-long trial in 2008, the class represented by Bursor & Fisher prevailed on all of their claims challenging Sprint’s termination fe...
November 11, 2016

Bursor & Fisher Lawyers Honored By 2015 Super Lawyers Selection

Bursor & Fisher is pleased to announce that Scott A. Bursor has been selected to the 2015 New York Super Lawyers list, and that Joshua D. Arisohn and Neal J. Deckant have been selected to the 2015 New York Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recogniti...
September 29, 2016

Final Approval Granted In StarKist Tuna Case

On September 29, 2016, Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a $12 million class settlement in Hendricks v. StarKist Co. The lawsuit alleged that StarKist had underfilled certain 5-ounce cans of StarKist tuna. The settlement resulted in the nationwide submission of more than 2.4 million claims, the la...
August 26, 2016

Proposed Settlement Reached In NVIDIA GTX 970 Case

On August 26, 2016, Chief Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a proposed class settlement in In re NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation. The case alleges that Defendants sold GeForce GTX 970 graphics processing units (“GTX 970 GPU’s”) to consumers based on inaccurate or misleading information regarding ...