Class Certification/Mass Tort

Case Examples:

Deceptive Sales Practices, class filed against a manufacturer for artificially inflating prices that were passed through to consumers. Demonstrated that, at multiple levels of the production and distribution process, product prices varied by more than alleged price increases. Class certification defeated.

Toxic Tort, an insurer needed an estimate of potential class size for leakage contaminating ground water over a forty year period. Calculated number of persons who lived in successively larger areas reached by the spread of the plume, as well as persons migrating in or out of plume coverage area. Insurer able to understand risk and reserve efficiently for losses.