California and National Class Action Lawyers
When an unsafe product causes a serious personal injury, Congress rarely seems to feel much sympathy for manufacturing corporations that are sued and forced to compensate the victims. This dynamic seems to change, however, when instead of facing legal action for causing major harm to a relatively small number of people, corporations are held accountable for the relatively lesser harm they inflict on massive numbers of people and businesses, regionally or nationally.
In these cases, Congress seems to have a great deal of sympathy for the corporate defendant — so much so in fact that in 2005, the inappropriately named Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.
Before Ringler Kearney Alvarez LLP was formed, attorneys Thomas Kearney and Paul Alvarez specialized in complex and sophisticated business tort and class action litigation. When the champion trial lawyer, Jerome Ringler, joined forces with these hard-nosed class action litigators, the three created a firm whose blend of talents is virtually unmatched in the state. Indeed, there may be a handful of firms that can list verdicts comparable to Mr. Ringler's, and an equally select group of class action lawyers with success comparable to Mr. Kearney's and Mr. Alvarez's — but no firm has the combined class action capability and trial skills that RKA offers.
Simply put, RKA works to restore fairness to the playing field that Congress tilted in favor of class action defendants back in 2005.
Mr. Ringler is one of the few lawyers in California who has actually tried a major class action to verdict. That verdict, in an action brought on behalf of a class of doctors against their insurer, resulted in a whopping $156,000,000 award. In the last nine years alone, Messrs. Ringler, Kearney and Alvarez have achieved a stunning record of success with verdicts, alone, approaching a quarter billion dollars. In addition RKA has achieve settlements for their clients in an even greater sum.
In short, RKA is a firm that can as readily defeat a defendant prior to class action certification as close the deal in front of a jury. And so it makes sense that the firm is highly selective in its choice of clients, representing only plaintiffs with significant, high-stakes class action claims.
To discuss your legal matter with an attorney, call us in Southern California at 213-473-1900, or contact us online.
Selected Results
- $156 million class action verdict on behalf of doctors defrauded by an insurance company.
- $20 million recovered in a class action lawsuit for individuals financially harmed by a major corporation.
- $16.5 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of workers denied full pay for all overtime and other benefits.
- $12 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of pharmacists who were denied overtime pay by a major health care provider.
- $10 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers financially harmed by the deceptive practices of a national retailer.
- $9 million recovered in a class action lawsuit for individuals financially harmed by a major corporation.
- $6.5 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of workers denied full pay for all overtime and other benefits.
- $6 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of workers denied full pay for all overtime and other benefits.
