Consumer Litigation | Class Action Litigation
Gray, Ritter & Graham represents consumers, including classes of consumers, when those persons have been damaged as the result of deceptive or unfair trade practices, violations of state or federal laws, fraud or other wrongful acts that cause economic injury.
GRG accepts representation in select matters involving unique complex issues with substantial damages at stake. For example, GRG was retained by the Missouri Attorney General as one of a handful of firms to represent 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.
Representative Cases
BJC Health System settled a class action suit brought on behalf of uninsured
patients who alleged they were charged inflated prices for the same services
provided insured patients.
Class action suits filed against the agricultural company who produced a modified rice seed, known as "Liberty Link Rice." Some foreign and domestic purchasers have shunned the 2006 rice crop after traces of a genetically modified rice variety were discovered in Missouri and Arkansas rice bins. More than 200 farmers were named in the St. Louis suit which involves more than 125,000 acres of farmland.
Class action recovery against exterminating company for alleged large scale
fraud in failing to treat foundations of homes with the amount of termiticide it
had agreed to supply. |
