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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • October 27, 2026

    Google Class Attys Get $2M In $8.25M Kids' App Tracking Deal

    A California federal judge has awarded class counsel just over $2 million in fees and expenses as part of an $8.25 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing Google of surreptitiously tracking children's online activity, despite expressing "some concern" that the rates and hours billed by one plaintiffs' firm was "excessive" and rejecting some of the firm's travel expenses. 

  • October 27, 2026

    Milliman Reaches $15.5M Deal In Life Insurance FCRA Suit

    Risk management firm Milliman Inc. is set to pay $15.5 million to resolve a consumer class action accusing the company of peddling flawed information to life insurance companies, according to a proposed settlement that the plaintiffs filed for preliminary court approval in Washington federal court on Monday.

  • October 27, 2026

    OpenAI Sued Over Epilepsy Death Allegedly Tied To ChatGPT

    ​The parents of a Chinese national with epilepsy who died earlier this year sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court, alleging ChatGPT was effectively practicing medicine without a license when it designed a tapering schedule for the anti-seizure medication that was keeping their daughter alive.

  • October 27, 2026

    Google Can't Dodge Ex-NPR Host's AI Voice Misuse Suit

    Google cannot escape former NPR "Morning Edition" co-host David Greene's lawsuit alleging the tech giant misappropriated his voice in an artificial intelligence podcasting product, a California judge ruled.

  • October 27, 2026

    CFTC Sues Utah To Widen Prediction Market State Brawl

    Utah on Tuesday became the latest state to catch a suit from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission when the agency accused the state of treading on its "exclusive jurisdiction" over the prediction markets by bringing an enforcement action that branded Kalshi's sports contracts as bets.

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