This practice area has the following sub practice areas:
Consumer Protection
Fair Debt Collection Practices
Wage & Hour
Catastrophic Accidents
Large Scale Injuries
Class actions, collective actions, and mass tort claims are the most challenging litigation a company can face. Frequently, these claims involve the risk of statutory damages, treble damages, and attorneys’ fees. Mass tort claims can involve injuries to dozens, hundreds or thousands of people, requiring individualized evaluation in order to defend and resolve. Mass tort claims can also involve administrative or criminal proceedings that impact civil litigation and involve the risk of adverse publicity.
Kiernan Trebach’s attorneys defend companies against class and collective actions asserting a variety of theories of liability, ranging from breach of warranty and consumer fraud to unfair debt collection and wage and hour violations. We have the experience to handle the complex issues that accompany class certification, class settlements and other issues unique to class and collective actions.
We defend companies facing mass tort liability and we are familiar with the high degree of risk that such claims present to your enterprise. We frequently and successfully guide our clients through the challenges faced from large-scale accidents, releases of environmental contaminants, deficiencies in the delivery of services, or wide-scale products liability disputes.
Recent Case Examples:
Settlement of collective action involving healthcare employees and wage claims.
Settlement of class action involving a large construction contractor and claims of wage and hour violations under the Federal Labor Standards Act and state law.
Settlement of a class action involving the Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Action and allegations of illegal collection activity involving a large residential management company that processed tenant utility payments to apartment complexes.
Class actions, collective actions, and mass tort claims are the most challenging litigation a company can face. Frequently, these claims involve the risk of statutory damages, treble damages, and attorneys’ fees. Mass tort claims can involve injuries to dozens, hundreds or thousands of people, requiring individualized evaluation in order to defend and resolve. Mass tort claims can also involve administrative or criminal proceedings that impact civil litigation and involve the risk of adverse publicity.
Kiernan Trebach’s attorneys defend companies against class and collective actions asserting a variety of theories of liability, ranging from breach of warranty and consumer fraud to unfair debt collection and wage and hour violations. We have the experience to handle the complex issues that accompany class certification, class settlements and other issues unique to class and collective actions.
We defend companies facing mass tort liability and we are familiar with the high degree of risk that such claims present to your enterprise. We frequently and successfully guide our clients through the challenges faced from large-scale accidents, releases of environmental contaminants, deficiencies in the delivery of services, or wide-scale products liability disputes.
Recent Case Examples:
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