St. Louis-based complex litigation firm Holland Groves is pleased to announce that final approval has been granted to a class action settlement arising out of JPMorgan Chase’s implementation of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), one of the many programs designed to assist struggling homeowners in the economic downturn. In exchange for receiving billions of [...]
After four unsuccessful removals to federal court and failed trips to the Missouri Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, Fresenius Medical Care and its affiliated companies have been ordered to face a jury in St. Louis. The trial date, in September 2015, was set at the first status conference for people who have brought claims against Fresenius [...]
The Missouri Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the efforts of Massachusetts-based Fresenius Medical Care to keep patients injured and killed by the company's now-recalled Granuflo® dialysis concentrate and system from filing cases in Missouri state court to recover for their harms and losses. On Friday, the Missouri Supreme Court denied an application for a [...]
Eric Holland and Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze, LLC have again been included in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. The Bar Register is one of the definitive guides to the most distinguished law firms in America. For over 90 years, the Bar Register has been a unique guide to the legal community's most eminent professionals. [...]
Eric Holland and the law firm of Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze, LLC, along with co-counsel, filed a Notice of Settlement of a nationwide class action involving allegedly defective wire harnesses in certain VW Jetta vehicles. The judge presiding over the litigation, The Honorable Michael J. Reagan, issued an order approving the parties' proposed schedule for [...]
After a slew of regulatory actions and numerous class action lawsuits, JPMorgan Chase and a large commerical insurer have annouced a $300 million dollar class action settlement of claims arising from the practice known as "forced placed insurance" or "FPI". FPI has been widely criticized by consumer advocates and attacked by several state attorneys general [...]
2013 was another banner year for both the firm and the individual attorneys at Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze, LLC. Firm members received a variety of awards and honors including SuperLawyers®, Best Lawyers in America®, Martindale AV Preeminent®, and Top 100 Trial Lawyers®. The firm was also recognized as Missouri's Maritime Law Firm of the [...]
Holland Groves founding partner Eric D. Holland recently spoke at the 13th Annual Complex Litigation Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana on a panel of distinguished speakers moderated by Professor Arthur Miller. Professor Miller took the panelists through the paces in discussing a number of the cutting edge complex litigation topics covered in his most recent law review [...]
The St. Louis-based complex litigation firm Holland Groves is pleased to announce that preliminary approval has been granted to a class action settlement involving allegations that AAA backdated certain membership renewals. Holland Groves attorneys Eric Holland and Seth Crompton, along with co-counsel firms, negotiated a settlement of the lawsuit, Kowa vs. The Auto Club Group, [...]
Eric Holland has been selected to participate in the 20th Annual Admiralty Symposium hosted by the Louisiana State Bar Association in New Orleans. Mr. Holland will address the symposium on current legal developments in admiralty law and will also participate with a panel of judges in a discussion about resolving admiralty cases. The upcoming symposium is "world class, covering [...]
