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Consumer Litigation Cases:
$7.8 Million Settlement of Bank Overdraft Fee Lawsuit
**Genetically Modified Rice Litigation Gray, Ritter & Graham attorney Don Downing led the negotiations for a $750 million settlement with Bayer Cropscience on behalf of U.S. rice farmers in a dispute over Bayer's genetically modified rice. This website provides information and updates regarding In re Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, MDL 1811, the class action settled on July 1, 2011.
In 2010, Gray Ritter & Graham and the law firms of Stueve Siegel Hanson and Tycko & Zavareei filed a class action lawsuit against UMB Bank and its affiliated entities, alleging that UMB customers who are citizens of Missouri were unfairly and deceptively charged overdraft fees. The lawsuit alleged that these practices violated Missouri's consumer protection law and UMB's contracts with its customers. On May 13, 2011, GRG and the other firms obtained a settlement in this matter of $7.8 million.
**Terms of BJC settlement in case against hospitals for overcharging uninsured patients.
$30 million recovery against a public utility for unconstitutional rate increase levied against sewer district customers.
**$2 million verdict for two southeast Missouri farmers in the first "bellwether" trial for rice farmers in their suit against Bayer CropScience for contamination of their crops by genetically modified seed.
**$1.5 million verdict in the second "bellwether" trial for Arkansas and Mississippi rice farmers in their suit against Bayer CropScience for contamination of their crops by genetically modified seed.
**$500,000 jury verdict for a Louisiana rice farmer represents the third consecutive verdict in favor of rice farmers throughout the region in their suit against Bayer CropScience
**Suit over contact lens solution filed.
**Confidential settlement for 70 farmers whose 41,000 acres of cotton were damaged by herbicide "drift."
**Missouri Supreme Court declares voter identification statute unconstitutional.
Settlement in favor of consumers in class action against a termite extermination company for misrepresentation in failing to treat foundations of homes with the amount of termiticide it had agreed to supply.
$6.7 billion settlement on behalf of the State of Missouri against major tobacco companies for years of medical cost for tobacco-related injuries and deaths that resulted from decades of deception by the tobacco industry regarding the deadly nature of tobacco by-products and the profoundly addictive compounds in smoking and chewing tobacco. The case ended in a historic settlement with the tobacco defendants agreeing to pay the State $6.7 billion dollars.
