Michael Caddell and John Scofield were retained to evaluate over 400 business and personal insurance claims arising from wind damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi coast. Within months of retention, the firm successfully resolved approximately 40 of the disputes, and they initiated lawsuits for almost 100 pending claims. Since its initiation of litigation, the firm has settled over 130 commercial and homeowner claims with 18 insurance companies arising from the damage caused by …
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Victory for Quapaw Tribe in Environmental Litigation
As lead counsel, Caddell & Chapman secured an $11.5 million settlement on behalf of its client, the sovereign Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma against ASARCO LLC, a mining company and recovered an additional $8.856 million for the Quapaw Tribe against various other mining defendants and the BNSF railroad.
The Quapaw claimed that ASARCO’s mining activities caused natural resource and subsidence damages to the Quapaw’s historic reservation. Caddell & Chapman separately is prosecuting claims on behalf of …
Data Security Breach Class Action
On August 24, 2009, Judge Lee Rosenthal in the Southern District of Texas appointed Michael Caddell as Co‑Lead Counsel for a class of banks, credit unions and other financial institutions in a multi-district litigation case against Heartland Payment Systems. Heartland processes payment card transactions for about 250,000 merchants and handles an average of more than 100 million transactions per month and more than $80 billion in transactions a year. Heartland provides merchants with the ability …
Trans Union – Privacy Class Action
Caddell & Chapman served as Co‑Settlement Class Counsel in multi-district litigation against Trans Union in the Northern District of Illinois. The privacy class action litigation focused on Trans Union’s use of its vast database of financial information, which includes the confidential financial information of most adults in the United States, to create and sell “target marketing” lists to advertisers. Caddell & Chapman, representing what is believed to be the largest class ever certified in the …