Peters took her case to small claims after opting out of a class action settlement.
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Mr. Koprowsky had a Tax Court small claims decision decided against himself and his wife.
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Honda recently suffered a high profile loss in small claims court, which was later overturned on appeal.
The Lord Chancellor has now instituted a review of small claims enforcement procedures.
For the California woman who took on Honda in small claims court in February and won, it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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Small claims for each individual, but big dollars in the aggregate.
Finally, I obtained a default judgment in Small Claims Court.
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If the trader was a sole trader or partnership, you can continue to pursue any claim you may have against the trader, via the small claims court if necessary.
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Now you can take that person to court, to civil court or small claims court, to try to get your money, but you're still on the hook for that debt.
The agreement makes an exception for Small Claims courts.
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But, as it stands, there's also little threat of legal action being taken, as the burden is on the disabled person to take action through the small claims courts, which is a complex process.
In a consultation document published in December, the Ministry of Justice set out ideas for action, including creating new medical panels to improve diagnosis of whiplash injuries and allowing more cases to be challenged in the small claims court.
While the central issue involves an arbitration contract, this case is really about the economics of class actions, which allow lawyers to bundle together hundreds or millions of small claims into a very powerful weapon to induce companies to settle on their terms.
But small-claims plaintiffs are also right to complain that courts are much too passive about enforcing their own judgments.
Last week a disgruntled Honda Civic Hybrid owner in California won a small-claims court challenge over claims that the car could achieve as much as 50 mpg.
The CBI's own study of the issue, published in 2005, found that many small firms settled claims even when they had legal advice that they might well win.
She claims the small reforms in pensions, health and welfare that she and her coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party, are undertaking are unpopular but necessary.
But that cuts both ways, since if class certification is denied most of the plaintiffs would have claims too small to bother hiring a lawyer over.
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Originally designed for the pharmaceutical industry to test the safety and effects of drugs, the authors have pioneered RCTs to test the claims that small, uncollateralized loans to the poor are a persuasive antidote to poverty.
It has since been involved in "a number of massive deals for Linux desktops" and they're even in a "massive deal right now for... multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux, " claims Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP.
Despite repeated opposition claims that small business will bear a heavy burden as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine conducted by the non-partisan, non-profit Rand Corporation and based on sophisticated computer modeling, reveals something quite to the contrary.
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"All of the updated data that we have collated supports the conclusion that claims management companies have had a marked effect on the number of small injury, whiplash-like claims, " said David Brown, chairman of the actuaries' professional body.
One of the things we heard was most of the major claims, most of the small businesses and certainly even some of the bigger businesses, those claims have not been dealt with.
The source of those claims: A small company, headquartered on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, known as Tiversa.
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Out of the thousands of frivolous claims that are filed each year, it is telling that no small business owner was interviewed for the movie regarding claims made against his or her business.
And while small businesses are encouraged to file claims with BP, these loans and deferrals can provide much needed temporary assistance.
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Look for the last few lines of small print underneath all the gigantic claims made on internet sites for homeopathic ADHD treatments.
It gives the individuals and it gives the small businesses some certainty that their claims are going to be handled in an expedited manner.
The unprecedented nature of this oil spill requires a rapid and comprehensive approach to supporting individuals, families and small businesses even while they pursue claims against the responsible parties.
The idea that converting a small portion of deposits into equity claims in an economy with a population of barely more than 1 million could be a source of systemic risk suggests the hair-trigger character of the current situation.
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