Cases

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages
• Wage Hour Class Actions
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel and obtained a $3.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Accordia Life and Annuity Co. and Alliance-One Services, Inc. involving unpaid and...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel and obtained a $16.5 million settlement in this securities fraud class action in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Adams Golf...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $75 million settlement for investors in this securities fraud class action. Led by Executive Shareholder Sherrie R. Savett, the case was...

• Status: Pending
• Defective Drugs & Medical Devices

Berger Montague is privileged to serve as Court-appointed Co-Lead Counsel in this nationwide consolidated mass tort and class action litigation against medical device manufacturer Allergan (now...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague settled a lawsuit against Chicago Title Co. on behalf of its individual clients who alleged they were victims in a more than $400 million liquor license lending Ponzi scheme engineered...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $6.95 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Brightview Landscapes, LLC f/k/a the Brickman Group LTD. LLC (“Brightview”)...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $19.74 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Ascension Health and Sacred Heart Health System, Inc., et. al....

• Status: Settled
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

On February 16, 2015, Berger Montague filed a class action complaint on behalf of its clients against health insurer Anthem, Inc. arising from Anthem’s massive data breach. Computer hackers accessed...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Lending Practices Borrowers Rights

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $31 million settlement in this consumer class action settlement in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Led by Shanon...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $4.9 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Optimum Healthcare IT, LLC on behalf of approximately 2,110 individuals employed...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $30 million settlement for damages resulting from a large oil spill. If you have suffered damages from an oil spill, pollution event, or any...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

In the Ashworth Securities Litigation, Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of the New Hampshire Retirement System and obtained a $15.25 million recovery plus substantial corporate...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel and obtained a $2 million settlement in this securities fraud class action against Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, former officers of the company, and...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.22 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Custom Communications, Inc. (“CCI”) on behalf of approximately 296...

• Status: Settled
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $17.1 million settlement in this lawsuit in which the plaintiffs alleged that Aetna violated the privacy rights of thousands of its customers...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague represented a class of shareholders and obtained a $5.5 million settlement in this securities fraud class action against the lab equipment maker, Beckman Coulter, Inc. The case was...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $695,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against DHL Express (USA) Inc. d/b/a DHL Express and Flyway Express, LLC on behalf of...

• Status: Settled

Berger Montague served as lead counsel in this national insurance-related class action on behalf of cancer patients against Central States Health and Life Company of Omaha (“Central...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $826,014.42 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Wise Intervention Services, Inc. (“WISE”) on behalf of 47 individuals employed...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a settlement of $12.5 million with McDonald’s Corporation due to its failure to disclose the use of beef fat in its french fries. Berger...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Attention: Any owners or lessees of a 2016 or later Ford-brand vehicle equipped with a 1.0L EcoBoost engine, including 2016-2017 Ford Fiesta, 2018-2021 Ford EcoSport, and 2016-2018 Ford Focus...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel and obtained a $2 million settlement on behalf of a class of African American employees of Rochester Gas & Electric Co. Led by Executive Shareholder Shanon...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and co-counsel filed this class action on January 30, 2020, alleging that 2019 and 2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrids have defective fuel tanks that cannot be filled to its advertised 14.5...

• Status: Pending

Berger Montague represents hundreds of survivors of sexual abuse while participating in the Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts File Bankruptcy In February 2020, Boy Scouts of America filed for Chapter 11...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $717 million settlement in this antitrust price-fixing class action on behalf of a class of purchasers of brand name prescription drugs. Led by...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $4.5 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against HCTec Partners, LLC, f/k/a HCTec, LLC on behalf of approximately 2,271...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.3 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Homeland Vinyl Products, Inc., on behalf of approximately 698 individuals...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $35.7 million settlement in this securities fraud lawsuit consisting of a $29.25 million cash settlement plus an additional $6,528,371 in...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague, with its co-counsel, asserted claims against the Volvo defendants on behalf of consumers who purchased or leased certain 2013 to 2016 Volvo-branded vehicles (“Class Vehicles”) for...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $292,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against MBM Delivery and Logistics, LLC and DHL Express Inc. d/b/a DHL Express on behalf of...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating whether companies in California that enforce Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policies are failing to reimburse their employees. About the case On August 12, 2014,...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class and collective action lawsuits on behalf of California workers who have not received accurate pay stubs. About the case Under California Labor Code...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of California workers who were not given proper meal and rest breaks. California work break laws Under California law,...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of California employees who worked more than six days in a row without overtime pay. About the case In 1999, California...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of California employees whose workplace has a “use it or lose it” vacation policy or who were not paid for their unused...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $35 million settlement in this securities fraud class action litigated in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. If...

• Status: Pending
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague assists the Co-Lead Counsel team in this data breach class action brought on behalf of 100 million Capital One credit card applicants and cardholders whose sensitive personal...

CASE NAME: Caricofe et al. v. Ford Motor Company CASE NUMBER:  3:23-cv-01012 PRACTICE AREA: Consumer Protection, Defective Products, Automobile Defects CASE STATUS: Pending COURT: United States...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague obtained a $5.25 million settlement in this securities fraud class action. Led by Executive Shareholder Sherrie R. Savett, the firm filed the lawsuit in the United States District...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead class counsel and obtained a $61.5 million settlement on behalf of a class of physicians and other direct purchasers of vaccines from defendant Sanofi Pasteur Inc....

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represented the plaintiffs and played a key role in obtaining $211.7 million in settlements in In re CRT Antitrust Litigation, a case brought on behalf of a class of direct...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $94 million settlement for the class of direct purchasers of brand and generic Celebrex (celecoxib) in this antitrust action against Pfizer. The...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $103.9 million cash settlement on behalf of a nationwide class of consumers who purchased CertainTeed Fiber Cement WeatherBoard Siding for a...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $2,925,000 settlement on behalf of loan officers who worked in four offices of the defendant, Wilmington Finance, Inc., to resolve their claims...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

On October 29. 2022, Berger Montague and co-counsel filed a class action against Honda alleging that the 2016-2020 Honda Civic, Honda Accord, and Honda CR-V vehicles have a defective integrated...

• Status: Settled
• Government Representation
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $93 million settlement in this securities fraud class action for the benefit of bond and stock purchaser classes. Led by Executive Shareholder...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Lending Practices Borrowers Rights

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $1.5 million settlement in this consumer class action in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs...

• Status: Pending
• Healthcare Litigation

On December 5th, 2022, Berger Montague announced that a class action complaint has been filed alleging that network access provider Anthem, recently rebranded as Elevance, unlawfully refuses to allow...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Lending Practices Borrowers Rights

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $22.1 million settlement in this consumer class action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. concerning lender-placed flood insurance. Led...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as one of two co-lead counsel and obtained a $43.5 million settlement in the nationwide consolidated class action litigation against NIBCO, Inc. Led by Shanon J. Carson,...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel and obtained a $2 million settlement in this securities fraud class action against Concord Camera Corp. and several of its officers. Led by Executive Shareholder...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as counsel for the direct purchasers of containerboard products and obtained settlements of more than $350 million. In this litigation, the plaintiffs alleged that from 2004 to...

• Status: Pending
• Defective Drugs & Medical Devices
• Consumer Protection

Recently, the FDA sent a letter to eight eye drop manufacturers warning them that their products were illegal and adulterated. These manufacturers include Walgreens, CVS, Boiron, DR Vitamin Solutions,...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague, led by Michael Dell’Angelo, served as lead class counsel and obtained $23.63 million in settlements with the defendants in the multistate indirect purchaser antitrust class...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health

Berger Montague served as lead counsel in this environmental litigation which alleged that Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons facility operated by Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp.,...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $3.9 million settlement on behalf of a class of non-exempt employees at Nebraska Beef’s processing plant. The plaintiffs alleged that...

• Status: Settled
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague served on the Executive Committee of this multidistrict litigation. In 2008, a senior financial advisor formerly employed by Countrywide stole confidential information of millions of...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages
• Wage Hour Class Actions

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a settlement of over $1 million for a class of 340 mortgage underwriters based on allegations of unpaid overtime. Led by Shanon J. Carson of Berger...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves as co-lead class counsel on behalf of a proposed class of current and former UFC professional fighters, alleging that the plaintiffs and class members are victims of the UFC’s...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $336 million settlement in this historic antitrust case alleging that the major credit cards and defendant banks conspired to fix prices for...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Defective Products

Berger Montague is investigating a potential nationwide class action lawsuit against companies that manufacture and sell solar panels, inverters/microinverters, and other components of residential and...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $3.8 million settlement on behalf of current and former Transamerica Corp. employees who alleged the company breached its fiduciary duties owed...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained an $80 million settlement for a class of dental practices and dental laboratories in this antitrust lawsuit against Henry Schein, Inc., Patterson...

• Status: Pending
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Attention: Anyone who delivers DHL packages through a third-party contractor. You may be entitled to unpaid wages. Berger Montague has filed a collective action complaint on behalf of delivery drivers...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.2 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against TAK Communications CA, Inc. and TAK Communications, Inc. on behalf of...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

On June 24, 2021, Berger Montague and co-counsel filed a class action against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) alleging a defect in the rear differential in FCA high performance vehicles, which...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $36 million settlement on behalf of 401(k) and pension plans that maintained investments in certain collective trusts managed or operated by...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $27.5 million settlement in this securities fraud class action against Goldman, Sachs & Co. and other defendants. The lawsuit was litigated in...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel in this securities fraud class action on behalf of all persons who (a) purchased or otherwise acquired Cloopen American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) pursuant...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health

Berger Montague served as counsel in a consolidation of wrongful death and other catastrophic personal injury cases brought against two manufacturers of turkey products, arising out of an outbreak of...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and obtained an $11.1 million settlement for a class of persons who were incorrectly scored on a teacher’s licensing exam in this...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Many companies misclassify employees as independent contractors, often in an attempt to avoid paying these individuals overtime compensation and/or employee benefits. This practice is illegal under...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $21.37 million settlement for a class of over 3,000 current and former African-American employees of Eastman Kodak Company for their race...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of women who claim they are performing the same work as their male counterparts but are being paid less because of their...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation

Berger Montague represented a trustee in bankruptcy against officers and directors and the former corporate parent and obtained a very favorable confidential settlement. The case was litigated in the...

• Status: Pending
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Step 1: Are you an employee or former employee (or a dependent of an employee or former employee) a university in the U.S.? Step 2: Have you participated in a retirement plan offered to the...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Step 1: Are you a current or former LifePath Funds shareholder? Step 2: If so, fill out the form on this page. You may be able to participate in a class action lawsuit. If you are a LifePath...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague filed class action complaints throughout the United States on behalf of consumers who received Experian or TransUnion consumer reports with a tax lien or other public records errors....

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague served on the Executive Committee and helped obtain a settlement valued at over $170 million. The settlement included a $22 million non-reversionary cash settlement fund as well as...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health

Berger Montague served as co-trial counsel and co-chair of the plaintiffs’ discovery committee in this iconic litigation resulting in a record $5 billion punitive damages award in 1994 against...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $6.25 million settlement on behalf of a class of oil and gas inspectors who alleged they did not receive overtime compensation for hours worked in...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained after seven years of litigation, a settlement whereby fabricator class members could obtain full recoveries for their economic losses resulting from...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained settlements totaling $94 million on behalf of a class of shareholders of Fleming Companies, Inc., in connection with losses suffered as a result...

• Defective Products

Attention: Anyone who has experienced leaking or other problems with their FlowGuard Gold CPVC plumbing system. Berger Montague is interested in hearing from home and property owners who have...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained an $8.25 million settlement in this lawsuit on behalf of all holders of Prime Group Realty Trust’s (“PGRT”) Series B Cumulative...

• Status: Pending
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages
• Wage Hour Class Actions

Attention: Any current or former Premium Retail Services employee who has worked as a merchandiser. Berger Montague has filed a lawsuit on behalf of merchandisers who work or have worked for Premium...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves as Co-Lead Class Counsel representing classes of All-Star Cheer Gyms and Spectators of All Star Cheer Events in antitrust litigation against Varsity Brands, LLC and its...

• Status: Pending
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

On April 12, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York appointed Berger Montague as Co-Lead Counsel in a securities class action against Goldman Sachs Group, Inc....

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $4.45 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Scientific Drilling International, Inc. on behalf of approximately 745...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $21 million settlement on behalf of consumers who had water leaks and economic losses as a result of Uponor high-zinc yellow brass plumbing...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague is currently litigating a certified class action lawsuit against Gerber Product Co. alleging that Gerber falsely advertised its Good Start Gentle brand of infant formula as having...

• Status: Pending
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $4 million settlement in this privacy breach lawsuit alleging that Gilead Sciences, Inc. violated the privacy rights of customers by exposing...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a settlement valued at over $99 million on behalf of a former trader who brought a shareholder class action on behalf of minority shareholders of...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $10 million settlement for a class of 1,500 retirement plans that invested in a collective trust established by State Street Bank & Trust...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.4 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Veritas Consultant Group, LLC d/b/a Moravia Health Network (“Moravia Health”)...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of government contract workers who were not paid a prevailing wage while working on public works projects. What is a...

• Status: Pending
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Attention: Any current or former delivery truck drivers for Goya Foods, Inc. who were classified as independent contractors or owner-operators. Berger Montague is currently representing delivery truck...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague represented a litigation trust and brought actions against the officers and directors of Sunterra Inc., and its accountants, and obtained a $4.5 million settlement. The cases were...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

On December 3, 2021, Berger Montague and co-counsel filed a class action against Mitsubishi alleging a defect in the 2014-2017 Mitsubishi Lancer, 2014-present Mitsubishi Outlander, 2014-present...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague, with its co-counsel filed a lawsuit against General Motors LLC (“GM”) on behalf of a class of consumers who purchased or leased 2014-2021 Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $2.45 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Divurgent, LLC, on behalf of approximately 1,065 individuals employed in the...

• Status: Settled
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague served on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in this multi-district litigation and obtained a class action settlement in this data breach class action. Heartland Payment Systems,...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $3.6 million settlement in this securities class action arising from the collapse of Hemispherx stock after it was revealed in December 2009...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves as co-lead counsel in this antitrust class action lawsuit filed on January 9, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against Brown...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained settlements totaling $531 million on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of high fructose corn syrup, the principal sweetener used in non-diet...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Lending Practices Borrowers Rights

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $5.05 million settlement and additional prospective relief in this consumer class action on behalf of all persons who were charged by Bank of...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Commercial Litigation
• Discrimination Class Actions

Berger Montague served on the Executive Committee in the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation and helped achieve a $1.25 billion settlement with the largest Swiss banks on behalf of victims of Nazi...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a class action settlement on behalf of passengers who did not receive refunds when their British Airways flights were cancelled due to the...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as both co-lead counsel and liaison counsel, and obtained a $111 million settlement on behalf of investors against IKON and certain of its officers. Led by Berger Montague...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as one of the lead trial counsel obtaining over $604.5 million in settlements on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of aluminum and tantalum electrolytic capacitors and film...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $78.5 million settlement in this lawsuit in which its clients were appointed as sole lead plaintiffs and challenged the procedures relating to...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $190.7 million settlement on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of drywall, in a case alleging that the dominant manufacturers of drywall...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $9.7 million settlement in this lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Co. brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1000,...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represents a class of persons and entities that purchased brand or generic Effexor XR directly from Wyeth, Inc. or Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. in a case alleging unlawful efforts to...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represented a certified class of employees suing technology and media giants including Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc., Pixar Animation Studios...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained $62.3 million in total settlements for a class of direct purchasers of the brand-name drug K-Dur 20, a potassium chloride supplement used to...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represents plaintiffs who purchased the prescription drug Lamictal or generic Lamictal in antitrust litigation pending in the United States District Court for the District of New...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served on the Executive Committee and obtained a $202 million settlement in this nationwide antitrust class action against the producers of linerboard. The plaintiffs alleged that the...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague currently serves as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of the prescription drug Lipitor from Pfizer Inc. in this antitrust class action involving alleged efforts...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $120 million settlement for the class of direct purchasers of brand Loestrin, generic Loestrin, and brand Minastrin. The direct purchaser class...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel on behalf of a class of purchasers of Melridge common stock and convertible debentures. A four‑month jury trial yielded a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor for...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a recovery of $475 million in 2009 for the benefit of the class in one of the largest recoveries arising out of the U.S. financial crisis. The...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection
• Commercial Litigation
• Commodities & Options

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and helped return approximately $1.6 billion to thousands of commodities account holders who were victims to the alleged massive theft and misappropriation of...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as Lead Counsel for a class of investors in the Scudder/Deutsche Bank/Mutual Funds track of the nationwide Mutual Funds Market Timing cases. These cases recovered over $300...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $750 million settlement on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of branded and/or generic Namenda IR and/or branded Namenda XR, from Forest...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $12.5 million settlement on behalf of purchasers of NetBank common stock alleging claims against NetBank and certain of its officers and directors...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves as co-lead counsel in this class action challenging an alleged pay-for-delay arrangement concerning the brand name drug Niaspan (extended-release niacin). The case is pending in...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $21.5 million settlement on behalf of a class of participant employees in the 401k Long-Term Investment Plan sponsored by Nortel Networks, Inc....

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-counsel and obtained an $8.9 million settlement for the class of investors in this securities fraud class action. The case was litigated in the United States District...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection
• Commodities & Options

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained settlements worth over $75 million on behalf of former customers of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. in litigation against U.S. Bank, N.A. and...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $24 million settlement in this multidistrict litigation lawsuit against Menu Foods and other defendants seeking damages for harms caused by the...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained settlements totaling $334 million against Rite Aid Corp.’s outside accounting firm and certain of the company’s former officers. Led by...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $215 million asbestos remediation settlement for elementary and secondary schools suffering property damage in this historic environmental and...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $52.5 million settlement for the bond and stock purchaser classes in this action. The case was litigated in the United States District Court...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained over $76.8 million in total settlements on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of brand and generic Solodyn (extended-release minocycline...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $70 million settlement in this securities fraud class action, of which $30 million was contributed personally by an individual defendant. The case...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represents a class of direct purchasers alleging an illegal scheme to delay the entry of generic Suboxone. The case is being litigated in the United States District Court for the...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee which obtained over $473 million in total settlements in In re TFT-LCD Antitrust Litigation, an antitrust class action against the...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained settlements totaling $163.5 million on behalf of direct purchasers of titanium dioxide, a product used in paints, inks and other applications. The...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $250 million settlement on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of the cholesterol drug Tricor in this antitrust litigation. The plaintiffs...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust
• Commodities & Options

Berger Montague served as Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel and obtained total settlements of $152 million in this class action antitrust lawsuit alleging that the five banks that participated in the...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for a proposed class of generic drug purchasers in price-fixing and market allocation litigation brought against many of the generic drug...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust
• Commodities & Options

Berger Montague served as class counsel and recovered $187 million in combined settlements on behalf of investors who transacted in Eurodollar futures contracts and options on futures contracts on the...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead class counsel and obtained a $145 million settlement in this antitrust pay for delay action on behalf of a certified class of direct purchasers of brand or generic...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $6.5 million settlement on behalf of a class of investors who bought Patriot National, Inc. stock between Jan. 15, 2015, and Nov. 28, 2017. The...

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

On March 20, 2015, the Honorable Gregory H. Woods of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York appointed Berger Montague as co-lead counsel in these consolidated class...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $12.6 million settlement for direct purchasers of filled propane tanks from the defendants AmeriGas and Ferrellgas LP (which does business as...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $51.25 million settlement for the class of direct purchasers of the prescription drug Restasis in this antitrust class action litigation against...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as counsel in this case and helped obtain total settlements of $193.9 million for a class of direct purchasers of steel products from the eight largest steel manufacturers in...

• Status: Pending
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague serves as co-lead counsel in a nationwide class action lawsuit brought on behalf of all participants in the American Red Cross Savings Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan is a 401(k) plan...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of truck and delivery drivers who believe they have been misclassified as independent contractors by their employers. Why...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of workers who have been reclassified from exempt to non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. What is the...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $2.4 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against McDonald’s Corporation on behalf of 2,262 individuals employed in the United...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who has purchased and used JUUL e-cigarettes. The case is Viscomi et al. v. JUUL Labs, Inc. et al. About the case Plaintiffs...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague represented the plaintiffs and obtained a $6.9 million settlement in a state law class action in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants breached fiduciary duties under the New...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served on the Executive Committee and obtained total settlements of over $512 million in this antitrust pay for delay class action on behalf of direct purchasers of Provigil...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served on the plaintiffs’ Executive Committee and obtained a $65 million cash settlement in this securities fraud class action on behalf of investors against KLA-Tencor and...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel in this derivative action on behalf of Florida Power & Light, which was resolved by payment to the corporation of $22.25 million, of which $9.75 million was...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $2.825 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Country Financial a/k/a CC Services, Inc. on behalf of approximately 1,381...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of current and former healthcare company case managers who were not paid overtime when they worked over 40 hours in...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class and collective action lawsuits on behalf of current and former insurance investigators who claim they were not paid overtime. About the case The Fair...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former employees who claim they were not paid overtime for the time spent donning and doffing safety gear,...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a claim that numerous hotels, banquet halls, and resorts are cheating their food service workers by pocketing the service charge added to customers’ bills. A service...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former brand advocates who claim they were not paid overtime. About the case In September 2011, the United...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague is investigating potential claims on behalf of California residents who have been automatically charged for an ongoing product or service. About the case In December 2010, California...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of employees who were misclassified as independent contractors by their employers. Why would my employer misclassify me as an...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Credit Reporting & Background Checks

Berger Montague believes that consumer and credit reporting agencies must be held accountable when they make mistakes in their employment/criminal background reports. If you believe a background check...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential lawsuits on behalf of unpaid interns who should be paid as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). When should interns be paid as...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Consumer Protection
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague is investigating potential claims on behalf of individuals in certain states who had their telephone calls recorded without their consent. About the case Several hotels, banks, utility...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of anyone with a loved one in a nursing home who has been mistreated or not given a high enough level of care. Elder abuse...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who has paid off a tax lien within the last two years. What is a tax lien? A tax lien is the government’s legal...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of workers who travel between job sites without pay. When should workers be compensated for travel time? The Department of...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of escrow officers and agents who were denied overtime pay. What is an escrow officer? An escrow officer, also called an...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of financial advisor trainees who did not receive overtime pay. What is a financial advisor trainee? A financial advisor...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of real estate appraisers and assessors who did not receive overtime pay. What is a real estate appraiser? Real estate...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of supermarket managers who did not receive accurate overtime pay. About the case Many supermarket managers who work more...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of workers who were not paid for training time. This violates the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). About the case Under...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating healthcare organizations that employ nurses to perform utilization and HEDIS reviews. We believe that some nurses are being illegally denied time-and-a-half overtime...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of workers in the restaurant service industry who are forced to share their tips with managers, janitors, dishwashers, cooks,...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $6.7 million settlement on behalf of current and former Mutual of Omaha employees who participated in Mutual of Omaha’s Retirement Income...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague represented the City and County of Denver, served on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, and obtained settlements totaling $90.5 million in this antitrust litigation on behalf of...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Cases Against Toyota Motor Sales Loo v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., 8:19-cv-00750-VAP (C.D. Cal.) Quinones v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., 5:19-cv-01611-VAP (C.D. Cal.) Peguero v. Toyota...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $2 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against T/J Inspection, Inc. on behalf of approximately 520 individuals employed in the...

• Status: Pending
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Honda Odyssey Transmission Complaints Berger Montague serves as co-lead class counsel on behalf of a proposed class all persons or entities who purchased or leased a model year 2012 Touring and...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained an $850,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Lifetouch National School Studios, Inc., on behalf of approximately 291 individuals...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained settlements totaling $130 million for a class of 6,500 independent truck stops and other retail fueling facilities in this antitrust lawsuit. The...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and co-counsel serve as putative class counsel on behalf of a proposed class of owners and lessees of 2014 or newer Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, or RAM-branded vehicles equipped with a 3.6L...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained settlements totaling $4.9 million in these related securities fraud class actions against Medi-Hut Co., Inc. The first, against Medi-Hut Co., Inc....

• Status: Pending
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague serves as Co-Lead Counsel in this data breach class action against MGM Resorts International regarding the theft of personal information of up to 200 million of its hotel guests. A...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.995 million settlement on behalf of a class of over five thousand non-exempt hourly production, maintenance, and sanitation employees...

• Status: Active
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague represents plaintiffs pursuing claims for breaches of warranty, violations of consumer protection statutes, and consumer fraud on behalf of purchasers and lessees of any model year...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and, led by Shanon J. Carson, obtained a settlement of $3.5 million on behalf of a group of African American employees of Sara Lee Foods Corp. to resolve charges...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of employees who believe their employers miscalculated their overtime pay. What is overtime pay? According to the Fair Labor...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation

Berger Montague represented a liquidating trustee against the officers of U.S. Aggregates, Inc. and obtained a $4 million settlement. The case was litigated in the United States District Court for the...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a settlement for the plaintiffs and 247 opt-in plaintiffs of the defendant, Farmland Foods, Inc., in this case alleging unpaid wages and overtime...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Insurance & Financial Products

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $75 million plus settlement against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company on behalf of current and former West Virginia automobile insurance...

• Status: Settled
• Discrimination Class Actions

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel in cases against German industry and banks for the use of slave labor and forced labor during the Nazi era, which were ultimately settled in the context of...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as class counsel in this antitrust class action, winning a $190 million settlement on behalf of a class of direct purchasers of the brand-name prescription drug Neurontin. The...

• Status: Settled
• Government Representation
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague obtained a $45 million settlement for the State of New Jersey pension funds for public employees in this securities fraud opt-out action alleging losses on investments in Qwest...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $1.2 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Koch Meat Co., Inc. d/b/a Koch Foods, Koch Foods of Mississippi, LLC, and/or JET...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $575,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Peco Foods, Inc. and Armco Services, Inc. on behalf of approximately 130 individuals...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained an $89.5 million settlement for investors in six tax-exempt bond mutual funds managed by OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and distributed by...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Insurance & Financial Products

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $90 million settlement on behalf of a class of 705,000 former policyholders and members of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc....

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $6.1 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Leidos Health, LLC on behalf of approximately 1,090 individuals employed in the...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained a $1.8 million settlement for unpaid wages and overtime on behalf of 269 Installers who worked for U.S. Remodelers in the State of California....

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products

Berger Montague served as sole lead counsel and obtained a class action settlement against American Isuzu Motors, Inc. and Isuzu Motors Ltd. on behalf of purchasers and lessees of 1998 and 1999 Isuzu...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a class action settlement against Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. on behalf of purchasers and lessees of certain 2019 Volkswagen Jetta or 2018,...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a class action settlement against Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. on behalf of purchasers and lessees of certain 2019 and 2020 Volkswagen Golf...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague serves as Co-Lead Counsel and has obtained a $5.6 billion antitrust settlement for a national class of direct purchasers in the Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount...

Berger Montague, with its co-counsel, asserted claims against the Hyundai and Kia Defendants on behalf of consumers who purchased or leased Hyundai or Kia brand vehicles with a “Gamma” 1.6L GDI...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as counsel and obtained a $23 million settlement for a group of pension funds including the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System in this securities...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and co-counsel serve as putative class counsel on behalf of a proposed class of owners and lessees of Dodge-, RAM-, Jeep-, and Chrysler-branded vehicles equipped with Gen II 5.7-liter...

• Status: Pending
• Defective Drugs & Medical Devices
• Consumer Protection

About the Recalled Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and Mechanical Ventilator Lawsuit: On June 14, 2021, Philips announced a recall of many of its Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Bilevel Positive...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague serves as co-lead class counsel on behalf of a proposed class of all persons who purchased or leased any 2017-2019 Chrysler Pacifica or Chrysler 300 vehicles equipped with FCA US...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a settlement of over $20 million in combination of cash and common stock. If you are an investor and have questions about a potential securities...

• Status: Settled
• Commercial Litigation

Berger Montague represented the plaintiffs and obtained a $30 million settlement (cash and stock combined) in this commercial litigation matter alleging a ten year oral contract. The case was...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $17.83 million settlement on behalf of investors in this securities fraud class action. The case was litigated in the United States District...

• Status: Pending
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in a data breach class action against Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Optum 360, LLC. The case is In re: American Medical Collection...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $650,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Vans Express, Inc. and DHL Express Inc. d/b/a DHL Express on behalf of approximately 340...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $2 million settlement for Minnesota residents who took out a loan arranged by MoneyMutual, LLC. The plaintiffs, led by John Albanese of Berger...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $586,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Vital Support Home Health Care Agency, Inc. (“Vital Support”) on behalf of...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $25,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, and...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as counsel and helped obtain a $72 million settlement for a class of investors who sold RJR Nabisco securities prior to the announcement of a corporate change of control. The...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $49.5 million settlement of plaintiffs’ claims concerning the imposition of foreign transaction fees. The case was litigated in the United...

• Status: Settled
• Antitrust

Berger Montague served as lead counsel for the cardholder classes and obtained settlements with four of the nation’s largest credit card companies, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One and...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $14.25 million settlement in this action against Viacom on behalf of a class of investors. The case was litigated in the Delaware Superior Court....

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $45 million class action settlement against Safety-Kleen’s outside accounting firm and certain of the company’s officers and directors. The...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages
• Wage Hour Class Actions

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $7.5 million settlement for a class of thousands of employees of Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. who alleged that they were forced to work...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products
• Consumer Protection
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague served as co-lead class counsel and obtained a settlement of over $2 million in this automotive litigation against Volkswagen of America, Inc. concerning certain 1997-1999 Audi A4...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $3.24 million settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against The CJS Solutions Group, LLC d/b/a The HCI Group (“HCI”) on behalf of...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $16 million settlement for the class of investors in this securities fraud action. The case was litigated in the United States District Court...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Insurance & Financial Products

Berger Montague and its co-counsel prosecuted and obtained a settlement valued at $30 million in this multistate insurance fraud class action lawsuit against United American Insurance Company, Farm...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in a consolidated action asserting claims against General Motors, LLC (“GM”) on behalf of a class of consumers who purchased vehicles...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Insurance & Financial Products

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $72.5 million cash settlement in this nationwide consumer protection civil RICO and insurance fraud class action against The Hartford Financial...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower in State of California v. Schering-Plough Corporation, in which Schering-Plough Corporation (now known as Merck & Co.) agreed to pay $21.3 million to...

• Status: Settled
• Government Representation
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products

Berger Montague was co-lead counsel for the State of Connecticut and helped it recover approximately $3.6 billion from certain manufacturers of tobacco products in its litigation against the tobacco...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower in State of Florida v. Dey, in which the State of Florida prosecuted and obtained $15 million in total settlements in this qui tam Florida False Claims...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and co-counsel filed this class action on June 9, 2017 and thereafter filed a First Amended Complaint on September 15, 2017 adding additional plaintiffs. Plaintiffs alleged that...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products

Berger Montague has filed a lawsuit on behalf of anyone who drives a 2017 – 2020 Subaru Forester, Outback, Legacy, Crosstrek, or Impreza and has experienced issues with cracking of the vehicle’s...

• Status: Pending
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague serves as Co-Lead Counsel for the proposed class, representing Co-Lead Plaintiff Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi (“Mississippi”). The case is pending in the...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $142 million settlement for investors in the securities fraud class action against Sunbeam’s outside accounting firm and officers. Led by...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague, with its co-counsel, asserted claims against the Audi Defendants on behalf of consumers who purchased or leased any 2017-2020 model year Audi vehicle equipped with Audi’s...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague, with its co-counsel, asserted claims against General Motors, LLC, on behalf of consumers who purchased or leased certain 2010 to 2022 Chevrolet Camaro vehicles (“Class Vehicles”)...

• Status: Pending
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products

Berger Montague has filed a lawsuit against TAMKO Building Products, Inc. (“TAMKO”), alleging that TAMKO’s “Heritage” fiberglass roofing shingles are defective. About the case The...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $25 million settlement in this securities fraud class action against defendant Toll Brothers, Inc. The case was litigated in the United States...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague represented the plaintiffs and helped recover over $2 billion for claimants in the Drexel Burnham Lambert / Michael Milken securities and bankruptcy litigation, in the aftermath of the...

• Status: Pending
• Child Sex Abuse & Sexual Assault
• Consumer Protection

The Glen Mills Schools (“Glen Mills”) was the oldest reform school and residential program in the United States for court-ordered boys, located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Students...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Consumer Protection

If you have received unsolicited/unwanted calls or text messages on your cell phone from either telemarketers or debt collectors, you have specific rights under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $415,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Accenture, LLP, d/b/a Sagacious Consultants, LLC, and DB Healthcare, Inc., on behalf...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as lead counsel and obtained a $725,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against Golden Age Home Care, Inc., on behalf of approximately 323 individuals employed in the...

• Status: Settled
• Environmental Law & Public Health

Berger Montague served as lead and liaison counsel and obtained a $25 million settlement in 1981 for a class of individuals, businesses, and other entities who suffered property damages and economic...

• Status: Settled
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a settlement valued at over $200 million in this multidistrict litigation on behalf of consumers whose personal and financial data were stolen by...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class action lawsuits on behalf of current and former travel nurses who experienced unfair and illegal wage practices. What is a travel nurse? A travel nurse...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as class counsel and obtained a $114.5 million settlement for retired Campbell Soup employees in this class action to preserve and restore retiree medical benefits. The...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained settlements of over $110 million for retirees of Unisys Corp. whose health benefits were terminated. Led by Todd S. Collins of Berger Montague,...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

In a ruling on July 3, 2012, Judge Robreno denied Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss in part, allowing Plaintiff’s case to proceed against four pharmaceutical manufacturer Defendants (AstraZeneca,...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Mr. Gale’s whistleblower complaint alleged a kickback scheme called “swapping,” asserting that Omnicare paid nursing home owners kickbacks in the form of heavily-discounted prescription drugs...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower in this qui tam action resulting in a settlement with Recovery Home Care for $1.1 million, and with individual defendants for another $1.75 million. Home...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower, Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., a small pharmacy from Key West, Florida. The case included allegations that Apothecon submitted false and...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower, Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., a small pharmacy from Key West, Florida. The case included allegations that Bristol submitted false and inflated...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

In October 2009, the United States, through the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire, recovered $124 million from four drug companies – Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

In September 2007, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now known as Sanofi-Aventis SA) paid $190 million to the United States, a number of states and the District of Columbia to settle a qui...

• Status: Settled
• False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower

Berger Montague represented the whistleblower in this qui tam action resulting in a $124 million settlement. The case was litigated in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey....

• Status: Pending
• Employee Benefits & ERISA
• Healthcare Litigation

On June 24, 2022, plaintiff Rebecca Smith filed a complaint against UnitedHealth Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, “United”), the administrator of her self-funded health...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former fire captains, also called first responders, who claim they were not paid overtime. About the case...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former park rangers who claim they were not paid overtime. About the case The Fair Labor Standards Act of...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating potential class and collective action lawsuits on behalf of oil and gas industry employees who say they have not received overtime pay despite working more than 40...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating a potential class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former police officers who claim they were not paid overtime. About the case Several police departments have...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague is investigating the possibility that strike and lockout replacement agencies are not paying replacement workers for their travel time to and from company worksites and across picket...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection

In 1997, Berger Montague filed a class action complaint that was different from the complaints filed by any other of the filing law firms in the New Jersey State Court “Fen Phen” class action. The...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and cocounsel settled this class action in 2017 and it received final court approval on March 5, 2020. Plaintiffs alleged that 2011-2016 Ford Fiesta and 2012-2016 Ford Focus...

• Status: Under Investigation
• Defective Products

Commercial property managers and engineers in high-rise buildings may have defective plumbing valves installed on the property. About the Victaulic 608 butterfly valve investigation Berger Montague...

• Status: Settled
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation
• Consumer Protection

Berger Montague and its co-counsel initiated an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against defendants Volkswagen of America, Inc. and Volkswagen of America, Inc. d/b/a...

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague, as a member of the plaintiffs’ steering committee, obtained settlements of $141 million for investors Walco; 947 F. Supp. 491 (S.D. Fla. 1996)). Plaintiffs invested in funding...

• Status: Settled
• Employment Law & Unpaid Wages

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained a $595,000 settlement in this wage and hour lawsuit against CKF Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a ExecuTrain of Kentucky, d/b/a Optim Support, Inc....

• Status: Settled
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

In 1999, Berger Montague, as co-lead counsel, obtained a class settlement for investors of $220 million cash which included a settlement against Waste Management’s outside accountants.

• Status: Pending
• Technology, Privacy & Data Breach

Berger Montague serves as Co-Lead Counsel in the Consumer Track of this data breach class action, captioned In re Wawa, Inc. Data Security Litig., No. 19-cv-6019 (E.D. Pa.). The case arose from a...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

Berger Montague and cocounsel filed this class action on April 23, 2019. Plaintiffs alleged that General Motors’ recent generation of half-ton “K2XX platform” trucks and SUVs that causes certain...

• Status: Active
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

On November 20, 2020, the Honorable Joel Schneider of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey appointed shareholder Russell D. Paul as co-lead interim counsel in this proposed...

• Status: Settled
• Consumer Protection
• Defective Products
• Automobile Defect Litigation

On September 4, 2020, the Honorable Judith E. Levy of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan appointed Berger Montague to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in...

• Status: Settled
• Employee Benefits & ERISA
• Securities Fraud & Investor Protection

Berger Montague, as co-lead counsel in the securities actions, obtained a cash settlement of $80 million on behalf of investors against Xcel Energy and certain of its officers and directors.

• Status: Pending
• Antitrust

Berger Montague’s team, led by David F. Sorensen, represents a class of direct purchasers of the drug Zetia (ezetimibe). Plaintiffs allege that Merck & Co. Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.,...