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 [...]
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 [...]
The judge presiding over the Mirena® multidistrict litigation (MDL) appointed Eric Holland to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee this week, joining a group of just 11 other attorneys from across the country who the court selected for the PSC. Judge Cathy Seibel in the Southern District of New York appointed the PSC at the Mirena® July [...]
Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze LLC was named interim liaison counsel today by the Honorable David Herndon in the Southern District of Illinois federal court for the litigation now pending in that district against Well Fargo and other defendants arising from the forced placed insurance practices of the defendants. Forced placed insurance was one of the practices at [...]
Eric Holland of Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze was recently appointed co-lead counsel by the Honorable Henry A. Autrey in the Emerson Electric multi-district litigation recently consolidated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Autrey ordered that Holland and fellow St. Louis attorney John Simon of the Simon Law Firm [...]
In an order approving a settlement of a complex class action case, the presiding judge commended Eric Holland and the Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze law firm for its handling of the case. The Honorable Tom W. DePriest, Jr.'s order, entered April 15, 2013, found "...based on the appearance of Class Counsel at hearings and [...]
