Radcliffe & DeHaas, L.L.P.

One of the kinds of cases we enjoy handling are class actions. That is just another name for a small case for one person, that is a big case for a lot of people. Most lawyers don't handle those because they are too complex, take too much time, or the other side has this big law firm with all these lawyers against you

We don't see it that way. If we can get $1,000 back for 100,000 people with the big company (Highmark or Progressive) paying for your attorney, we think that is a great way to make the law work for the "little guy". One case took 10 years but we still got it done and the people we represented recovered from $5,000 to $50,000.

So when you have a wrong, that you think a number of people have been wronged the same way, call us. We can normally tell you right away if we think we can help you. That's why we say cases big or small, we take them all, and we do.

Our firm likes representing the person who has no connections, who is working hard but gets cheated by the big corporations. One example of that we saw in a recent Post- Gazette article that discussed how Walmart and others are deducting too much sales tax from some purchases made with a coupon. It appears walmart calculates the tax based on the coupon price not the after coupon price. Thus the State gets paid too much. Of course its only a few pennies most of the time, and a Walmart spokesperson was almost cavalier in the response in the article, indicating they knew of this problem for some time but it was a computer issue (isn’t that a common excuse – blame it on the computer?)

From a lawyer standpoint if a client approaches attorneys with this issue, 99% won’t take it, as it doesn’t make economic sense. Even the “big” plaintiff’s firms probably wouldn’t be interested ( “We will get a few cents for you”).

That is what we like doing, going against the big corporation (Highmark, and Progressive are 2 examples) as we enjoy figuring out ways to get justice that makes economic sense. In the Walmart situation a class action for all of the people who have been cheated might be the answer . But it takes a lot of planning ( this isn’t some simple rear end collision from a legal standpoint) and experience handling them. So check your receipts out.