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Gun owners want new hearing in Remington rifle settlement after new reports of malfunctions

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4 years ago

May 28, 2020

Gun owners want new hearing in Remington rifle settlement after new reports of malfunctions

Two Remington rifle owners are asking a federal judge to revisit a landmark class action settlement involving millions of allegedly defective guns. This, after CNBC reported that multiple customers have complained to the company about their guns malfunctioning even after they were repaired under the settlement.

The case involves Remington’s iconic Model 700 rifle and a dozen other Remington firearms with similar designs. Since 2010, CNBC has been investigating allegations that the company covered up a design defect that allows the guns to fire without the trigger being pulled. Lawsuits have linked the alleged defect to dozens of deaths and hundreds of serious injuries.

Madison, North Carolina-based Remington has consistently maintained that the guns are safe and free of defects. But in late 2014, the company agreed in a class-action settlement to replace the firing mechanisms on millions of firearms, free of charge, to avoid protracted litigation.

As the April 23 deadline to file a claim under the settlement approached, CNBC reported that several customers who had already taken advantage of the offer said that their retrofitted guns were malfunctioning. While it is unclear how many guns were affected, CNBC reviewed nearly a dozen customer complaints filed with the company.

CNBC also reported that many of the Remington Authorized Service Centers that were designated under the settlement to perform the repairs were either closed or operating with reduced hours because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the April 23 deadline was unchanged, and the official settlement website now says that the claims period has ended.

But Lewis Frost, a deputy sheriff in Louisiana who owns three Model 700s, and Richard Denney, an Oklahoma attorney who also owns three 700s, are asking the federal judge who approved the settlement to consider reopening the case in light of CNBC’s reporting.

“There is an obvious increased danger of unwarranted reliance on the safety of the replacement trigger mechanism because that repair is wrapped in the authority of the court,” wrote an attorney for the pair in a court filing. “Here the court-approved repair apparently does not eliminate the danger/defect.”

The filing by New Orleans attorney Gary Gambel asks U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith in Missouri to convene a hearing to determine how to proceed, and to seek information from Remington and the class action plaintiffs.

Gambel also asks the judge to investigate whether the pandemic-related closures of some repair centers have affected the process.

Attorneys for Remington did not respond to CNBC’s request for a comment on the motion, which was filed on May 7 but was not entered in the court docket until last week.

An attorney for the class action plaintiffs, Eric Holland in St. Louis, said he and the other plaintiffs’ attorneys had no information about guns malfunctioning after being repaired, despite extensive contact with customers throughout the claims process.

“Our firms collectively received hundreds of calls regarding the settlement,” Holland said in an email. “To date, not one putative class member has contacted any of us regarding any allegations of any retrofitted firearms misfiring.”

He also said that the pandemic has had little effect on the process, other than some repairs being “temporarily delayed.”

“Remington has been and continues to make repairs on any claims of affected firearms filed by April 23, 2021,” Holland said.

Holland is one of 13 plaintiffs’ attorneys in eight states who shared $12.5 million in fees under the settlement.

Frost and Denney are longtime critics of the settlement, which they said did not do enough to warn the public about the risks the guns allegedly posed. But Smith approved the settlement over their objections, and a federal appeals panel upheld his ruling in 2018.

The settlement covered some 7.5 million Remington firearms produced as early as 1948. But it remains unclear how many owners ultimately filed claims, or even knew about the trigger replacement offer in the first place. As of February 2017 — the last time claims data was reported to the court — only about 22,000 claims had been filed. A spokesperson for Philadelphia-based Angeion Group, which Smith appointed to administer the claims process, has not responded to multiple requests by CNBC for more recent claim numbers.

In addition to the Model 700 rifle, the settlement covers Remington bolt-action rifle models Seven, Sportsman 78, 673, 710, 715, 770, 600, 660, 721, 722, 725 and the XP-100 bolt action pistol.

While the settlement offer for most of those guns has expired, the website notes that a voluntary recall remains in effect for certain Model 700 rifles produced between 2006 and 2014. For those guns, the company acknowledges that “excess bonding agent” applied to the trigger mechanism during manufacturing could cause the guns to fire without the trigger being pulled. The company urges owners of those guns to stop using them, and contact Remington for repairs.

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Jeff Bezos Lookalike Cagdas Halicilar Enjoys Lavish Lifestyle By Impersonating The Billionaire

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17 hours ago

April 19, 2024

Subhashree Panda

Jeff Bezos Lookalike Cagdas Halicilar Enjoys Lavish Lifestyle By Impersonating The Billionaire

A 46-year-old German man, Cagdas Halicilar, is currently the talk of the town as he has emerged on the internet as Jeff Bezos’ lookalike.

Thus, Cagdas Halicilar has transformed his profession into a professional Jeff Bezos doppleganger from an electrician.

The 46-year-old reveals that now he lives an opulent lifestyle as an entrepreneur.

Cagdas Halicilar was often told by his family and friends that his looks were similar to those of a billionaire. However, only when he saw Jeff Bezos’ picture, did he understand what people around him meant.

The New York Post reported that Halicilar dreamed of becoming a successful business executive. With him founding CB Transporte, a transport company, he lived his dream.

After accepting his resemblance to Jeff Bezos, Cagdas Halicilar enrolled himself at a doppelgänger agency.

Cagdas Halicilar Gained Popularity by Being Jeff Bezos’ Lookalike

Most of the time, he dressed up in casual attire which made him look more like a billionaire, as Jeff Bezos also dressed up casually.

Halicilar added, “It doesn’t matter whether I’m wearing a suit or wearing jeans and a polo shirt.”

He added how it requires a bit of effort to maintain his appearance like a billionaire. He shaves his head and applies Nivea cream regularly. The German doppleganger added that he has been doing the same for more than ten years now.

The 46-year-old has gained a lot of popularity and recognition over the years for his work as Jeff Bezos’s doppelgänger. His spouse complained that people often stopped him and asked for selfies on the street.

In the “King of Stonks,” the German Netflix miniseries, he also had a guest spot.

When in Seattle once, Cagdas Halicilar strolled through the Amazon campus. Surprisingly, Amazon employees thought that he was Jeff Bezos, reported TimesNow.

He said,

“All the Amazon employees came to me, wanted selfies and thanked me for being proud to work at Amazon.”

Furthermore, he added,

“My wish is to drink a whiskey with Jeff Bezos on his yacht. He is just as much of a yacht fanatic as I am.”

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Lawsuit Claims Cinemark Shortchanged Customers on Sold Beverages

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23 hours ago

April 19, 2024

Manoj Nair

Lawsuit Claims Cinemark Shortchanged Customers on Sold Beverages

A North Texas movie-goer has filed a lawsuit over Plano-based Cinemark drink sizes.

The lawsuit alleges that the movie theater chain fleeced its customers by shorting beverages sold in the chain’s canteens.

The chain loudly advertised that the 24-ounce container is a better deal, claiming consumers will get more for less price, while the reality is that Cinemark swindles customers by shortchanging them on sales for the 24-ounce beverage cup.

Cinemark Accused of Shortchanging Customers on Beverage Sales

The proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in a Texas federal court and it indicts the movie.

The lawsuit further details how consumers got only 22 ounces of liquid, which is the maximum that can be filled in Cinemark’s 24-ounce cups.

It is alleged that the deception was part of a deliberate packaging and pricing practice.

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Theaters pay almost 50% of the revenue generated by ticket sales to the studios but keep all the profits generated by the sales of food and beverage.

Increased competition has pushed the chain to offer concessions and bonuses, and this helped Cinemark in 2023 to record its highest concession sales of all time.

However, the lawsuit alleges that Cinemark dupes its customers by shortchanging them on sales for the 24-ounce beverage cup instead of the 20-ounce beverage cup.

The reality is that consumers pay less for a 20-ounce cup, which is also a better deal than buying a 24-ounce beverage cup.

The complaint stated,

“The size of the container in relation to the actual volume of the product contained in it was intended to mislead the consumer into believing the consumer was getting more of the product than what was in the container by a twelfth.”

The lawsuit was brought by Texas resident Shane Waldrop, who purchased a 24-ounce beverage cup in February which cost him $8.80 before tax.

However, on closer look, he realized that the cup was not large enough to hold 24 ounces. This was confirmed later when Shane took the cup home and found that it could contain only 22 ounces of liquid.

Thus, the consumer was duped 2 ounces for every cup he bought.

The lawsuit charged the movie theater chain with neglectful falsification, deception, unjust profiteering, and a violation of Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act and asked for a court order to halt such practices.

Waldrop is seeking compensatory damages and also demanded a jury trial over the claims.

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Mukesh Ambani’s 67th Birthday: How He Built The Reliance Industries

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23 hours ago

April 19, 2024

Manoj Nair

It is Mukesh Ambani’s 67th birthday, and today we will try to get to know about the incredible journey of this man who, with sheer determination and grit, has created one of the biggest conglomerates in the world.

Reliance Industries, which passed into his hands in the 2000s, grew at a pace which was phenomenal.

Born on April 19 to Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben in Aden, Yemen, where his father was based before moving back to India.

Reliance Industries was already a big company, but its growth after Mukesh Ambani took on the reins was phenomenal.

With astute business acumen and strategic vision, Ambani has propelled Reliance Industries to dizzying heights, making it one of India’s most powerful empires.

It was under his stewardship that Reliance Industries diversified from being a petroleum company to enter other fields like Telecommunication and the Aerospace industry.

The 5G revolution, which has swept the country, is largely due to the efforts of Mukesh Ambani and his company Jio. Jio offered high-speed and cheap internet services to the farthest corners of the company, and this helped it to capture a major chunk of the telecommunication sector. Today the nation’s population is using internet data in an unprecedented way.

Another diversification move was the entry of Reliance Industries into retail, energy, petrochemicals, and media. Reliance also acquired and invested in Future Group’s retail assets, as well as the creation of JioMart, an e-commerce venture.

Reliance also entered into a partnership with the Indian media company Viacom18 and the American entertainment giant Disney to create a joint venture, valued at $8.5 billion. The venture also gave exclusive rights to Reliance to distribute Disney productions in India.

It is his futuristic vision which catalyzed Reliance Industries to invest heavily in the renewable energy sector. The company has built solar and wind energy farms and is contributing in a big way to help India achieve its renewable energy targets while lowering carbon emissions and environmental impact.

Again, it is his futuristic views which made him create the Jio Institute, which is a truly world-class educational institution dedicated to cutting-edge research and technical improvement. The stated motto of the institute is to help develop future leaders and innovators who will help the country grow to become a developed nation in the coming decades.

The phenomenal growth and success of Reliance Industry can be attributed to Mukesh’s keen sense to anticipate market trends, evolve as per changing consumer preferences, seize emerging possibilities, and produce products and services of the highest quality.

As of April 19, 2024, according to Forbes, Mukesh Ambani’s net worth is to the tune of $115.8 billion, and he is ranked one of the top 10 wealthiest people in the world on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires in 2021, 2022, and 2023.