: Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Canadian ClassActions Monitor 2. Know How 3. Canadian Appeals Monitor 4. David Whelan 5. Welcome to the Food Court Canadian ClassActions Monitor Submission to Finance Canada as part of its Pre-budget Consultations in Advance of the upcoming 2025 Fall Federal Budget There hasbeen a . . . [more] The post Monday’s Mix appeared first on Slaw
: FTC asks “Do consumers notice classaction notices?” lfair September 9, 2019 | 11:17AM FTC asks “Do consumers notice classaction notices?” By Lesley Fair Do consumers notice consumer classaction notices? That’s one of the topics that experts will discuss at an upcoming FTC workshop on issues related to communicating with consumers about classactions . Set for October 29, 2019, in Washington, DC, Consumers and ClassAction Notices: An FTC Workshop will feature panelists from a wide range of perspectives exploring what the research suggests about notice methods, claims rates, and redress – and what can be done to improve consumer participation in classaction settlements. To enhance our understanding of the issues, FTC staff just released a report summarizing the findings of two studies involving consumer classactions. In the first study, we looked at a sample of more than 140 cases and analyzed how variables like notice methods and compensation amounts affected consumer claims and check-cashing rates. A s[...]