March 10, 2015
Class counsel in a proposed $40 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement with HSBC Bank NA on Monday told an Illinois judge that a discrepancy in reported claim numbers was due to winnowing out duplicate and fraudulent claims.
March 09, 2015
An Illinois federal judge on Friday told class counsel in a proposed $40 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement with HSBC Bank NA to clarify the number of claimants and explain why their previous representations of the number were inaccurate.
November 20, 2014
Class counsel in a proposed $40 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement with HSBC Bank NA told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that the Seventh Circuit's recent opinion slamming a "selfish" false labeling class settlement supported their $12 million fee bid and asked the court to approve their deal.
October 29, 2014
A Nevada federal judge was asked on Tuesday to grant final approval to a $40 million settlement that would resolve class action allegations that HSBC Bank NA violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and to quash the efforts of so-called "professional objectors" to scuttle the deal.