1 edit | Damn lawyers "However, the lawyers for the class action suit get a tidy payday of $462,962.50, nine times the actual settlement"
How the hell does that work? Even though Comcast was in the wrong, they are basically taking the money that they overcharged and giving it directly to already-wealthy lawyers instead of returning it to the people it was taken from.
The lawyers in this case are the real criminals and practices like this need to be stopped. |
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DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | From the article:
'A Comcast spokesman said going through every bill for each of its Georgia customers would be time-consuming and laborious, given that the disputed charges go back to Oct. 20, 1999. That spokesman, Andy Macke, said while customers may have been overcharged in some years, they were undercharged in others.
"From a practical standpoint, you'd have to go through every customer's bill, see when they connected and when they disconnected and calculate the bill," Macke said, explaining in metro Atlanta alone, the company has 800,000 cable subscribers, the bulk of its Georgia customers.
"It would be an impractical exercise considering the amount of money on a per-subscriber basis that we're talking about. We'd be talking about less than one dollar."
So attorney's racked up almost a half million dollars in legal fees fighting for $50,000 in charitable donations while Comcast spent Lord knows how much more fighting that $50,000. Awesome. (Okay, I know that comment's a bit spurious; Comcast was fighting a judgment of any kind and I doubt they knew how small the number would be or I'm guessing they would have just settled from the beginning.) |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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kudos:4 | reply to hootabius
said by hootabius:"However, the lawyers for the class action suit get a tidy payday of $462,962.50, nine times the actual settlement"How the hell does that work? Even though Comcast was in the wrong, they are basically taking the money that they overcharged and giving it directly to already-wealthy lawyers instead of returning it to the people it was taken from. The lawyers in this case are the real criminals and practices like this need to be stopped. and to top it off, they'll write off the 50k as a charitable contribution.
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DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | Well, according to the suit, it IS a charitable donation. Comcast is donating $50,000 to various charities in lieu of tracking down every customer affected and paying them less than a dollar. |
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This is generally how MOST class actions that I've seen work. And not all lawyers are wealthy... |
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said by hootabius:"However, the lawyers for the class action suit get a tidy payday of $462,962.50, nine times the actual settlement"How the hell does that work? Even though Comcast was in the wrong, they are basically taking the money that they overcharged and giving it directly to already-wealthy lawyers instead of returning it to the people it was taken from. The lawyers in this case are the real criminals and practices like this need to be stopped. Man,
I'd have to agree. How the hell does that work out for the people?
Hope those people in Georgia enjoyed that screwing they just took!!
I'm sure it didn't take Comcast that long to go through and over charge everyone?
Yeah,
That first sentence is about messed up!!
What illiterates!! Was probably written by a Comcast person!!
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to jjeffeory
said by jjeffeory:And not all lawyers are wealthy... I kinda doubt that. |
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 P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
join:2001-08-29
way way out | reply to Desdinova
said by Desdinova:Well, according to the suit, it IS a charitable donation. Comcast is donating $50,000 to various charities in lieu of tracking down every customer affected and paying them less than a dollar. its called computers.
you know things that make batch searches easy. |
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Simba7I Void Warranties
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Billings, MT | "OMG.. It'll take more than a few minutes to do this? Let's just donate $50k and call it done".
I swear, if people get any lazier... |
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DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | reply to P Ness
I don't disagree, I'm just regurgitating Comcast's bile!  |
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