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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Class Action Attorney

Class action empowers individual plaintiffs, who would be at a serious disadvantage confronting a powerful defendant, to obtain strength in numbers to balance the scales of justice. It may be that an insurance company is cheating its policy holders out of small amounts of cash. For a single policy holder who notices the fraud, the loss is not worth filing a lawsuit, so the company can reap millions in illegal profits unimpeded. Or a manufacturer might keep a product on the market after it’s proven to be unsafe, thinking the worst case scenario would be a few lawsuits, the cost of which the company could easily absorb. But a class action, a single suit representing every person who was harmed, allows consumers to become a corporation in their own right, amassing the strength to win just compensation.

Robert D. Greenbaum & Associates, LLC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania believes in the power of class actions to deter illegal behavior, promote justice and ensure that the free market, dominated by powerful corporations, serves the public good and does not take advantage of unwary consumers. For 37 years, our attorneys have worked with other law firms to protect groups of citizens and to certify classes for trial in state and federal courts on such varied issues as:

  • Anti-trust
  • Consumer fraud
  • Dangerous drugs
  • Insurance reimbursement
  • Medical device defect
  • Product defect
  • Shareholder fraud
  • Toxic tort

When can a lawsuit become a class action?
In order for a suit to be certified as a class action, it must satisfy four criteria. Plaintiffs must show:

  • Commonality – that the plaintiffs’ claims are substantially about the same thing
  • Adequacy – that the named plaintiffs and their attorneys are able to represent the class appropriately
  • Numerosity – that there are enough plaintiffs to justify a class designation
  • Typicality – that the representative plaintiffs’ claims are typical of all claims within the class

Robert D. Greenbaum & Associates, LLC has extensive experience getting plaintiff groups certified as classes. Together with other counsel have prevailed, either through trial in state and federal court or via settlement, to gain for our clients money damages and/or injunctive relief.

Contact an established Pennsylvania class action attorney, Robert D. Greenbaum & Associates, LLC
To schedule a free initial consultation to determine if your legal dispute could possibly be certified as a class action, call Robert D. Greenbaum & Associates, LLC at 215.925.0499 or contact us online.

Robert D. Greenbaum & Associates, LLC serves clients throughout the greater Philadelphia area.