Consumer Protection

Protecting Consumers From Harm

Consumer protection litigation ensures that corporations treat consumers fairly. If a company sells dangerous or defective products, fails to honor warranties, or engages in deceptive practices, consumers can take legal action. This helps hold corporations accountable and provides compensation for any harm suffered.

For instance, if you buy a defective product and the company refuses to fix it or give a refund, you can seek legal action. Consumer protection laws shield you from scams, false advertising, fraud, and other unfair practices, ensuring you get what you pay for.

Attorneys General can also take legal action on behalf of consumers for unlawful corporate practices. Our firm has extensive experience in handling consumer protection lawsuits for Attorneys General. We tackle cases involving dangerous products, healthcare and insurance fraud, security breaches, investment fraud, anti-competitive conduct, and more.

Insurance Disputes

Our insurance fraud lawyers fight for clients misled about an insurance product.

Insurance fraud happens most frequently when the insurer wrongfully denies a consumer’s claim or when an insurance company attempts to avert its commitments to the consumer as described in the contract or policy. Almost any type of insurance can be the subject of fraud – life insurance, health care insurance, auto insurance, or property insurance. Our attorneys work to ensure consumers who are insurance fraud victims can hold the company accountable.

Anticompetitive Conduct

Antitrust litigation was created to prevent monopolies from taking control of entire industries, limiting consumer options, and putting more wealth in fewer entities’ hands. It involves investigating concerns such as monopoly leveraging, price-fixing or predatory pricing, and other acts of unfair competition.

A notable example of antitrust litigation is the 2013 lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield, where healthcare providers and policyholders accused the insurance company of violating antitrust laws by dividing service areas among its 36 plans. Beasley Allen played a key role in this litigation, leading to a $2.8 billion settlement, which is the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. healthcare history. This case highlights the importance of antitrust laws in addressing unfair practices that can limit competition and harm consumers. Additionally, unfair and deceptive trade practices, such as false advertising and bait-and-switch tactics, are regulated to protect consumers from misleading and harmful business behaviors. 

Attorney General Consumer Protection Litigation

Our law firm’s consumer protection litigation team has a successful history of handling high-profile cases for states and municipalities, including financial loss, consumer injury and environmental disasters. 

We have recovered over $4 billion in settlements and verdicts for various states. This has led to significant changes in how major healthcare companies conduct business with states and Medicaid agencies. 

The firm has also tackled the opioid epidemic, representing local governments against pharmaceutical companies accused of misleading the public about the risks of opioids, and played a crucial role in the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, helping Alabama secure over $2 billion in compensation for economic losses and environmental damages.

Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices

Unfair and deceptive trade practices are illegal business practices that can cause economic harm to consumers.  Our team of consumer protection attorneys specializes in a variety of cases all over the country involving unfair and deceptive trade practices.  These cases can be brought as individual cases on behalf of a single consumer, class action cases on behalf of many consumers, or Attorney General cases on behalf of all the consumers within the state.  Most states have enacted their own unfair and deceptive trade practices statutes, and they all typically encompass a wide range of industries.     

Meet Our Consumer Protection Attorneys

Dee Miles

Clay Barnett

Alison Hawthorne

Lance Gould

Larry Golston