Scott Stuart Edward

Fighting for the Consumer and a Healthy Free Market Stuart represents individuals and families who have been catastrophically injured or killed as a result of negligence, medical malpractice, dangerous products, or defective drugs. Since becoming a partner, Stu has expanded his practice into Consumer Rights cases. A few examples include class actions on behalf of consumers, unfair bank overdraft fees, diapers that increased skin infection rather than decreasing it as claimed by the manufacturer, and breach of warranty against a company that refused to honor its warranty contract for defectively manufactured residential hot water tanks that leaked. Stuart became passionate about consumer rights issues after his own encounters with unscrupulous businesses and experiencing firsthand the frustration that consumers can feel. He explains that Consumer Class Actions protect both the consumer and the honest business by identifying and punishing the bad business practices that harm the free market system:Consumer Class Action lawsuits are an important judicial mechanism for leveling the playing field against businesses that mislead, deceive, and otherwise view customers as prey. Class actions play a vital part in our free market check and balance scheme that stops bad businesses from succeeding at the expense of the consumer and those businesses that play by the rules and deal with their customers fairly. Without these cases, dishonest businesses would profit through deception rather than by delivering a superior service or product.