There’s a good chance you’ve been sitting on a valid reimbursement claim without realizing it if you owned or leased a BMW X3, X4, X5, X6, or X7 from the 2019 or 2020 model year and ever noticed water damage you couldn’t quite explain. Formally known as Craft v. BMW of North America, LLC, a class action settlement has been stealthily proceeding through the legal system. For many BMW owners, the specifics are worth carefully examining. The complaint’s main points are simple. It is purported that some BMW cars from those model years had a shark-fin antenna with a sealing…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
What transpired inside a federal courthouse in Brooklyn earlier this month has a subtly historic quality. A case that started in 2005, when most Americans were still using magnetic stripe cards at grocery store checkout lines and smartphones were nonexistent, was slowly coming to an end. A revised $38 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard, and over 12 million merchants who had accused the card networks of charging exorbitant fees to process credit card payments was given preliminary approval by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan. Twenty-one years is a long time to wait for a decision on anything. The initial complaint…
For many years, Makena was promoted with the kind of subdued assurance that pharmaceutical companies frequently display when they would prefer that patients not inquire too much. It had a clinical history, was FDA-approved, and had a price tag that implied seriousness. In some high-risk pregnancies, the medication hydroxyprogesterone caproate, marketed under the Makena brand, was prescribed to lower the risk of preterm birth. That promise meant a lot to women who had already given birth prematurely. At least in one courtroom, it is now established law that the promise was broken. In order to settle a consolidated class action…
Finding out that the company handling the data associated with your heart device was compromised—not by some complex spy operation, but rather by what seems to be a fairly standard cyberattack—is somewhat unsettling. Thousands of ZOLL Medical Corporation patients experienced something similar in January 2023, and it has taken years of legal wrangling for the impacted parties to be able to make a claim for compensation. A $3.5 million fund is established by the proposed settlement in Smith et al. v. ZOLL Medical Corporation for class members whose personal data may have been accessed between January 22 and 24, 2023.…
The fees that don’t match the signs, the charges that suddenly appear, and the notices that feel more like threats than reminders are all things that almost everyone finds annoying about parking. The majority simply pay and move on. There weren’t enough drivers in Tennessee, and eventually that became someone else’s issue. The California-based parking company Metropolis Technologies Inc., which runs lots in Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis, reached a $8.75 million settlement with the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office in January 2026. The settlement came after a year-long investigation into claims that the business deceived customers by using ambiguous pricing, shoddy…
Outside Ardrey Kell High School in south Charlotte, there’s a painted rock. It’s one of those spirit rocks that can be found at dozens of schools around the nation; it’s weather-worn and covered in layers of color from years of student milestones, pep rallies, and birthdays. It is not recognized as a monument. It is more akin to an informal, rotating community chalkboard. Three students painted it in September 2025 with the words “Live like Kirk,” a reference to John 11:25, and the phrase “Freedom 1776.” It vanished in a matter of hours after school employees painted it over. Charlotte-Mecklenburg…
Over the past ten years, you would have heard something like this if you had visited nearly any LensCrafters location: the AccuFit Digital System is five times more accurate than conventional fitting techniques, measuring down to a tenth of a millimeter. It sounded really amazing. It likely sealed the deal for many customers, encouraging them to make the purchase, have faith in the technology, and pay the price. That is precisely what millions of people did from September 2013 to September 2023. Luxottica Retail North America, the parent company of LensCrafters, has now consented to a $39 million class action…
A celebrity divorce that concludes with both parties praising one another in vlogs, podcasts, and concert speeches rather than in a well-crafted press release is truly peculiar. That’s precisely what happened when Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo announced their breakup in May 2026. Depending on your point of view, what has emerged since then has been either refreshingly mature or almost suspiciously tidy. On May 18, Jelly Roll filed for divorce, listing May 9 as the separation date and citing irreconcilable differences. Bunnie claimed that she told him to “file the divorce papers,” and it appears that he did, following…
The majority of people who got that email from “Atticus Administration” assumed it was phishing, just like anyone else would. The sender’s name was unknown, the subject line mentioned a lawsuit, and the entire message gave off the impression that it was attempting too hard to appear official. instinct that makes sense. However, it might have been a mistake to delete it in this instance. There is validity to the Allina Pixel Settlement. It has been granted preliminary court approval and is based on a legitimate federal lawsuit, Ahlers et al. v. Allina Health System, which was filed in the…
When a friend texts them a referral, most people don’t read the fine print. “Hey, try Cash App — use my code and get $5.” It seems informal, harmless, and the type of thing that is quickly removed. However, one of those texts became worth $394.36 for thousands of Washingtonians, and it all went through the Block Settlement Administrator, a quiet, systematic process. Bottoms v. Block, Inc., a class action lawsuit filed in a federal district court in Washington, is the source of the settlement. The main accusation was straightforward: Block Inc.’s Cash App encouraged users to send pre-written texts…