class action lawsuits - do you join?

MarylandWed

i have been getting emails from a cat food manufacturer to join their class action lawsuit. you get $200 or something if you join. however my cats never had any issue with the food so i decided not to join.

tonight i was listening to the tv as i was doing some work and there was one of those call us if you've ever been on blah blah blah then i hear them mention "if you had to have your gallbladder removed..." i was like, "what?" it was for Yasmin, a birth control pill i've been on. i probably won't contact them, but i was definitely like "oh wow!". i've never used a drug and had a result that they list on one of those lawsuit type commercials. seems kind of weird/unethical to go after the a drug company though given that i have a strong family history.

oh and weird thing, i ran into a friend of mine from yoga today at the post office and she reminded me that her daughter had GB surgery around the time that we had met. i knew she had surgery but didn't know the details at the time. i was surprised because her daughter was only 18 at the time! turns out she had limes disease (for four years, undiagnosed) and the iv antibiotics destroyed her GB. who knew?

xDanniellex

Only one has come up.  It was against Galyan's/***'s Sporting Goods for unfair break/lunch practices.  The details of the lawsuit didn't apply to me when I worked there so I didn't opt in.  I wouldn't have gotten very much money if I had.  I just didn't feel right about claiming I was treated a certain way when I wasn't.  Sure their practices were crappy, but I wasn't forced to work for free like the lawsuit claimed.

nola Steph

Any notice that I or J have ever received, in all honesty, I have just been too damn lazy to read the forty pages of accompanying text to see if we qualify.  I've never felt wronged enough by anything/anyone to feel like I need to seek out financial retribution anyway.  And like I said - just too damn lazy.

karebear304

nola Steph:

Any notice that I or J have ever received, in all honesty, I have just been too damn lazy to read the forty pages of accompanying text to see if we qualify.  I've never felt wronged enough by anything/anyone to feel like I need to seek out financial retribution anyway.  And like I said - just too damn lazy.

Yep! I do know that my Paw Paw was in one of the Asbestos ones, but it had something to do wtih the company and everyone that worked there was automatically submitted. I have no idea how much they got, but I don't think it was much.