The purpose of a class action lawsuit is to provide compensation to a large number of people who suffered similar harm \u2013 either financial or physical \u2013 as a result of an illegal or wrongful act..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class actions help the public pursue justice by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deterring Corporate Wrongdoing<\/strong> Increasing legal efficiency<\/strong> Providing Financial Incentive for Lawyers to Sue Big Companies<\/strong> The purpose of a class action lawsuit is to provide compensation to a large number of people who suffered similar harm \u2013 either financial or physical \u2013 as a result of an illegal or wrongful act.. Class actions help the public pursue justice by: Deterring Corporate WrongdoingBecause large companies know their customers can band together …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Because large companies know their customers can band together and file a class action, these lawsuits serve to deter corporate wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class actions increase the efficiency of the legal process by replacing multiple lawsuits with a single case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large corporations have the financial resources to hire small armies of expensive, Ivy League-educated lawyers to defend them. A person who purchased a defective product, on the other hand, probably does not have such resources at his or her disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"