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If Allstate paid you on an Arizona home or building claim between April 25, 2017 and October 1, 2026 and withheld “nonmaterial depreciation,” you may qualify for money. Most eligible people get 50% of the withheld depreciation that was never paid back, plus 10% simple interest. If all of it was later paid, the payment…
The unfinished Mandarin Oriental Residences in downtown Boca Raton, Florida, now sits at the center of several overlapping court fights. Condo buyers are suing to get back deposits worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. A lender group has filed a $417.7 million foreclosure lawsuit against the condo developer. Contractors are pursuing unpaid…
On October 15, 2026, Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. granted final approval to settlements totaling $359,925,000 in cash, plus business-practice restrictions and cooperation obligations. The settlements resolve rent-price-fixing claims against 41 landlord and property-management defendants in In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), Case No. 3:23-md-03071, in the U.S….
Quick Facts: What Happened in the Georgia Renter Tree Collapse Lawsuit? On October 14, 2026, the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment to a landlord in William Frank Jennings v. Romulus Investments, LLC et al., a case in which an oak tree on a neighboring lot fell on Jennings’s…
On October 14, 2026, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a trial court ruling that had recognized Kathleen Edwards’ right to live for life in a Salem, Oregon home she sold to her son-in-law, Scott Short, for $270,000. The home was worth about $398,000 at the time. The court held that the signed sale documents…
Concord Management Ltd., Watervue Partners, LLC and River Ridge Apartments, Ltd. have agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle class action lawsuits alleging they failed to send Florida tenants security deposit notices in the form the law requires. The deal also requires the companies to stop collecting about $15.99 million in claimed unpaid lease balances…
Equity Residential has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to settle a class action brought by a tenant of Mill Creek Apartments in Milpitas, California. The lawsuit claims the landlord did not follow the city’s Rent Review Ordinance when it sent renewal notices and raised rents. Equity Residential denies any wrongdoing. Eligible tenants do not need to…
November 20, 2026. That’s your deadline to opt out of or object to the Progress Residential eviction fees settlement. If you paid eviction attorneys’ fees to Progress at a Florida rental, you could get back 75% or 30% of what you paid, with no claim form. This is Johnsten v. Progress Residential, LLC, No. 2024-CA-001692,…
A Massachusetts dispute over trees, property boundaries and alleged encroachments ended with a $310,000 judgment against a neighboring landowner. On March 3, 2026, the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the judgment in David P. Baillargeon & another v. Mathew Lennon, a case between neighbors in Huntington, Massachusetts. The case matters because Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 242,…