Class Actions

Birmingham, Alabama Class Action Attorneys

Class actions are a legal tool to provide the widest possible relief to the most people. At McCallum Hoaglund Cook & Irby, LLP (“MHCI”), we have successfully represented individuals and businesses in Alabama and other states in class actions involving:

• Consumer fraud
• Unfair trade practices
• Violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Employment law violations, such as sexual harassment and unpaid overtime

Class actions provide a legal check against companies that cause a relatively small amount of harm to a large group of people. Class actions are a means of providing redress to those whose individual harm is small; without class actions, companies could cheat many people for small sums, knowing they would never be sued over such small amounts.

For example, an insurance company may charge all policyholders a “mode of payment” fee of $10 per year. While the fee may be improper under the terms of the policy and insurance laws, there are not enough damages for an individual policyholder to successfully challenge the practice by filing an individual lawsuit. However, when the $10 fee is multiplied by thousands of policyholders and spread over several years, the damages are significant enough to justify a legal action to compensate policyholders and force a change to the company’s billing practices.

Our Alabama class action lawyers have also successfully handled class action lawsuits against companies for fraudulent and deceptive billing practices perpetrated against their customers. These cases have involved hundreds of thousands of class members and tens of millions of bogus charges. Without the class action lawsuit, that business conduct would have gone unchecked.

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The class action attorneys at McCallum Hoaglund Cook & Irby, LLP serve clients in Alabama and nationwide.