Herman Gerel - Class Action

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MASS TORT

CLASS ACTION

INDIVIDUAL LAWSUITS

MULTI-DISTRICT LITIGATION

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Class Action Lawsuits Provide Strength in Numbers

"You don't want corporations to get away with defrauding millions of people just because the amount stolen from each person is small."

Class Action Suits are a form of multi-party litigation allowed in virtually every state. A class action is a procedural device that allows multiple claims for known and unknown claimants in multiple jurisdictions to be litigated efficiently and resolved with finality.

For instance, HermanGerel has filed class action lawsuits in both our World War II Slave Labor and Propulsid litigations. Moreover, since procedural devices like class actions and individual lawsuits are not mutually exclusive, we sometimes pursue our clients' claims with multiple procedural devices. For example, in the WWII Slave Labor case we filed individual lawsuits on behalf of our clients, but we also filed one class action lawsuit in which the class members included our clients.

A class action suit also makes sense when each victim's claim is too small to justify an individual lawsuit. Electric utility customers, for example, overcharged a few pennies each month may individually be due only $15 in damages. But when those claims are added together, the amount can be staggering. And it's unfair to allow a corporate wrongdoer to get away with a wrong simply because it has harmed a million people, each for a small amount of money.

So a class action suit allows a class representative to aggregate all those claims and ask for the cumulative amount of money in damages, which will be shared by all class members.

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