Thu, Jun 3rd 2021 12:05pm
Karl Bode
For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbitration, where arbitrators, chosen and paid by the companies under fire, unsurprisingly rule in favor of companies more often than not. Initially, the lower courts derided this anti-consumer behavior for what it was, noting that however brutally flawed the class action is, binding arbitration, at least the way we let companies designed it, in many ways made things worse.
It s being reported today that Amazon Inc. has stopped requiring customers to pursue claims in arbitration rather than a court of law after tens of thousands of people inundated the company with complaints that the Alexa digital assistant was improperly collecting voice recordings.
Holland
EDWARDSVILLE A suit alleges a premature infant suffered long-term health effects as a result of being fed cow s milk-based formula after birth.
Angela Ogle and Desiree Ogle filed a complaint May 14 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Mead Johnson & Company LLC, Mead Johnson Nutrition Company and Abbott Laboratories, alleging strict liability for design defect and failure to warn, negligence and negligent misrepresentation.
The plaintiffs allege Desiree Ogle was born prematurely on Feb. 23, 2002, at St. Luke s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. She was born at 29 weeks gestation, weighing thee pounds. The suit alleges that even though her mother intended to breastfeed her, Desiree Ogle was fed Similac and/or Enfamil cow s milk-based formula throughout her hospital stay. As a result, she allegedly developed necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and required a portion of her intestines to be removed.