Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C.’s Class Action Litigation Group has extensive experience and expertise in defending many different types of class actions claims involving banking practice, securities, insurance payments, environmental torts, medical monitoring, race discrimination, sex discrimination, age discrimination, unequal pay, unequal worth, and wage and hour. Some of the specific representations in class actions are:

• Defense of international credit card company and national banking association in consumer fraud class action concerning stored-value gift cards;

• Defense of a developer of genetically-modified crops in a nationwide anti-trust class action brought by farmers who purchased and grew the crops;

• Defense of a mining company in various class actions for personal injuries, property damage and medical monitoring arising from mining, milling and smelting activity at various locations;

• Defense of class actions consolidated in multi-district litigation involving multiple claims of fraud and securities violations;

• Defense of a financial institution in two class action suits brought in Illinois alleging violations of state statutes that limit the amount of points and fees that a lender may charge in connection with a second mortgage loan;

• Defense of a financial institution with respect to consumer equity loans made in the secondary market;

• Defense of a mortgage lender against allegations that it engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by charging loan documentation fees;

• Defense of a national tire manufacturer in a nationwide sex discrimination suit claiming interference with upward mobility of women;

• Defense of an international automobile manufacturer in a class action sex discrimination suit arising out of the company’s health insurance coverage of female employees;

• Defense of a large metropolitan newspaper against a number of class action sex discrimination claims and claimed discrimination in pay for allegedly equal work;

• Defense of a class action against a large health claim administrator in which physicians are claiming the organization improperly recoded treatment procedures submitted by the physicians to reduce the amount of reimbursement;

• Defense of a health claim administrator in a class action claiming improper fee splitting;

• Defense of an insurance company in a class action with respect to allegedly improperly withdrawing from a state market;

• Defense of a nationwide food and service company in a class action in Illinois involving the operation of food service programs at public schools;

• Defense of manufacturers in mass tort claims and medical monitoring class action claims;

• Representation of the inventor of radiolucent breast implants and dismissal of the inventor from several individual complaints as well as a class action claim;

• Representation of many corporate clients with respect to claims of product defects and allegations of sex discrimination, race discrimination, age discrimination, and disability discrimination;

• Missouri counsel for a national tire manufacturer in connection with the multi-district litigation involving allegedly defective tires of another manufacturer;

• Representation of a regional financial institution in a series of cases involving forced placed insurance in various Midwestern states;

• Representation of a national financial institution in a nationwide class action involving claims of allegedly imposing fees improperly for returned checks;

• Representation of a regional bank in a class action securities claim.

As is evident, our Class Action Litigation Group’s extensive representation of both regional and national financial institutions, manufacturers, health claims administrators, insurers and general employers has enabled Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. to develop the experience that is essential to the successful and effective management of large and complex class action cases.