North Carolina’s courts have been pretty quiet on the topic of class actions since our last North Carolina class action review, but there are two cases that class action attorneys should note. In the first, Surgeon v. TKO Shelby, 898 S.E.2d 732 (N.C. 2024), the North Carolina Supreme Court, in […]
In a previous post, we covered Sos v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and analyzed the pick-off exception under Eleventh and Fourth Circuit case law. No. 21-11769 (11th Cir. 2023). Sos involved another issue of significance: the calculation of attorneys’ fees, which is the subject of this blog post. Click […]
While perhaps rare, directly paying off a named plaintiff and putative class members before class certification is one tactic for potentially nipping a class action in the bud. It can be effective when both parties are willing to play ball and negotiate a settlement. However, a recent Eleventh Circuit decision […]