Consumer Protection

Overview

Edgeworth’s consumer protection experts support clients facing allegations related to false advertising, product liability, data privacy, and consumer financial protection across all stages of litigation—from assisting with discovery, to providing economic analyses related to class certification and assessing potential damages at trial.

Our work includes both class action and individual action litigation support related to alleged product misrepresentation, product mislabeling, labeling omissions, product defects, cyberattack liability, release of sensitive and personally identifiable information in a data breach, inappropriate determination of product payments, improper overdraft fees, unauthorized fee-based program changes, and hidden lending fees.

We utilize our experts’ decades of professional experience analyzing economic and econometric issues in bet-the-company litigation to study claims of economic injury and damages across a broad range of industries, including consumer products, pharmaceuticals, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, technology, communications, nutritional supplements, and food products.

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Edgeworth Insights

  • Blog, 08.08.2023

    Biotechnology companies Natera and CareDx have been engaged in a prolonged legal battle regarding the validity of patents covering methods of cell-free DNA analysis for noninvasive monitoring of organ transplant rejection. The case has been lauded by the legal community as the “last chance for diagnostic patents” to be reviewed by the Supreme Court.[1]

  • Blog, 02.07.2023

    In July 2021, the White House ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to promote competition in consumer financial markets through enforcement actions or rule-making. As a result, the CFPB is now poised to begin regulating and enhancing competition in consumer finance.

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