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Description:When companies defraud innocent consumers, charge excessive fees, break contracts, or break the law, often times you are not the only victim. At the law firm of Daughtery, Crawford & Brown, LLP in Columbus, Georgia, our lawyers represent individuals and businesses in class action lawsuits... moreWhen companies defraud innocent consumers, charge excessive fees, break contracts, or break the law, often times you are not the only victim. At the law firm of Daughtery, Crawford & Brown, LLP in Columbus, Georgia, our lawyers represent individuals and businesses in class action lawsuits against businesses that commit fraud and other wrongful actions.
There are four main types of wrongful actions that can lead to a consumer class action lawsuit:
Fraud. When a company fails to keep its promises or fails to do what it said it would do to get your business, if the failure was intentional it may very well be fraud. Most scams, in fact, result from the fact that many unscrupulous companies never intended to keep their promises or do what they said they would do.
Breach of contract. An example would be an insurance company that increases premiums when it does not have a contractual right to do so.
Illegal fee. This is where the company charges a fee that is deceptive or not allowed by law.
Statutory violation. Sometimes state or federal law will give consumers specific rights. For example, Georgia has a statute which makes lenders liable for liquidated damages when they are too slow to cancel security deeds after a mortgage loan is paid off.
Our lawyers are highly experienced at filing consumer class action lawsuits. We secured the first nationwide adversarial class certification in the Georgia court system. We are familiar with the issues involved in the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), which is designed to put a lot of class actions into federal court. We also have relationships with other class action lawyers across the country, which enable us to respond quickly when businesses commit similar wrongful actions to consumers in more than one state. less
