{"id":3809,"date":"2014-06-18T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:31","slug":"90-million-class-action-settlement-thrown-u-s-court-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/90-million-class-action-settlement-thrown-u-s-court-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"$90 Million Class-Action Settlement is Thrown Out by U.S. Court of Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A class-action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against a window manufacturer. The basis for the reversal of the approved $90 million settlement for the class-action lawsuit claiming defective windows was due to inequities with respect to the attorney fees of approximately $11 million; meanwhile, the clients &#8212; the consumers &#8212; would get less than $8.5 million in total.<\/p>\n<p>According to a section of the court\u2019s opinion written by <a href=\"http:\/\/judgepedia.org\/Richard_Posner\">Justice Richard A. Posner<\/a>, the \u201cclass counsel sold out the class.\u201d The settlement was approved by the district court judge and has now been reversed.<\/p>\n<p>The class-action lawsuit claimed that casement windows manufactured between 1991 and 2006 for Pella Corp.\u2019s \u201cPro-Line Series\u201d had a design defect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/90-million-class-action-settlement-thrown-u-s-court-appeals\/#more-3809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A class-action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against a window manufacturer. 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