Protecting Consumers From Harm
Consumer protection litigation is all about ensuring that corporations treat consumers fairly and honestly. When corporations sell dangerous or defective products, fail to honor warranties, conduct anticompetitive acts, or engage in deceptive practices, consumers have the right to seek legal action. This type of litigation helps hold corporations accountable and provides a way for consumers to get compensation for any harm they’ve suffered.
For example, if you buy a product that turns out to be dangerous or defective and the company refuses to fix it or give you a refund, you can take legal action. Consumer protection laws are designed to protect you from scams, false advertising, fraud, bad faith transactions, price fixing, and other unfair business practices. These laws ensure that you get what you pay for and that corporations can’t take advantage of you.
Attorneys General also have the authority to seek legal action on behalf of its consumers for unlawful acts and practices committed by corporations within the state. Our firm is experienced in pursuing those consumer protection lawsuits as outside counsel for Attorneys General.
Our consumer protection attorneys have extensive experience in handling cases related to consumer rights in various industries. We handle financial harm caused by dangerous and defective products, healthcare and insurance fraud against consumers, breaches in security and investment fraud, anti-competitive conduct, data breaches and more.
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Dee Miles Consumer Fraud Section Head Montgomery, AL -
Alison Hawthorne Principal Montgomery, AL -
Clay Barnett Principal Atlanta, GA -
Larry Golston Principal Montgomery, AL
Class Action
Our attorneys specialize in class action lawsuits to help consumers recover losses from dangerous and defective products, data breaches, security violations, insurance disputes, and other unfair and deceptive practices. These lawsuits combine multiple plaintiffs against companies that have caused financial harm, making the legal process more efficient.
Our team has successfully managed high-profile class action cases against major retailers like Target, Home Depot, and Fisher-Price, as well as automobile manufacturers such as General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler. We’ve also secured billions in recoveries from the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers responsible for keeping drug prices high for our country’s states and citizens and have been responsible for recovering millions of dollars for consumers against insurance companies. Additionally, our team of attorneys is responsible for recovering the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. healthcare history in our case against Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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.
Securities Fraud
Consumer fraud isn’t just about misleading advertisements or defective products; it also includes investment fraud, which can have serious financial consequences for consumers and investors. This type of fraud involves deceptive practices related to pension plans and other investments that are crucial for your financial future. If a company or individual mismanages or misrepresents these investments, it can jeopardize your current and future income.
Our investment fraud lawyers are particularly focused on cases that violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as other state and federal securities laws. This important law sets standards to protect your retirement savings from mismanagement and abuse. If you suspect that your pension plan or retirement investments have been mishandled, our team is here to investigate and help you seek justice.
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.
Data Breach
A data breach happens when someone who shouldn’t have access to your personal information gets hold of it. With so much of our data stored electronically, it’s easy for it to be lost or not properly protected. Experts say cyber criminals steal around $1 billion from businesses every year, and our firm works hard to restore that money back to consumers while also seeking to prevent any future breaches from occurring. Our team of consumer protection attorneys has tackled some of the country’s most notable data breaches, including AT&T, Target, Home Depot, and Equifax data breaches and cyber-attacks.
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.
Social Media
Beasley Allen is actively pursuing legal action against major social media companies for their role in the mental health struggles faced by adolescents, teens, and young adults. These platforms have been linked to addiction and a range of serious mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, ADD/ADHD, self-harm, and even suicidal thoughts. Our goal is to hold these companies accountable for the negative impact their platforms have had on young people’s lives.
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.
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