Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T), a bank holding company based in North Carolina with reported revenues over $11.6 billion dollars in 2018 settled a lawsuit over the excessive fees they charged to their employees over their 401K plans. The bank agreed to pay approximately $24 million to settle the case. The affected employees include those […]
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) is a public insurance and risk management company based in Illinois accused by plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit of providing and promoting illegal captive insurance tax strategies for their clients. The plaintiffs allege this strategy was not real and it was really an abusive tax shelter designed to […]
In 2018, California suffered a huge number of wildfires and some of which including the Camp Fire wildfire was tied to the the electric company Pacific Gas & Electric. PG&E, reportedly the largest utility company in the state, has filed for bankruptcy due to its role in the wildfires and the lawsuits that are expected […]
The Bradley County Jail is located in Cleveland (not Ohio) Tennessee. It is a small city not too far away from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Tennessee River. According to some statistics, the population in Bradley County is around 40,000 people. For a small town, Bradley County’s jail has certainly been the subject of many […]
Most people think of banks or credit unions when it comes to financing operations for their business and plaintiffs’ lawyers are no different. In the best case scenario, banks will evaluate an application and after doing their due diligence they will issue a decision to lend or not to lend. However, things aren’t that simple […]
Legal finance is a new industry that has gained prominence over the years because of its future capabilities and the current industry that it services most people aren’t aware of is a needed asset. Since in its emergence in the early 1990s in the United States, the profile of the industry has continued to rise […]
