Great Western Bank settles overdraft fee class action

December 20, 2011
By Steve Larson

Great Western Bank announced that it has settled the overdraft class action pending against it in the MDL in Florida for $2.2 million. This is the sixth case pending in the MDL in Florida that has settled. Others cited earlier in this blog include Bank of America ($410 million), Bank of Oklahoma ($19 million), Associated Bank ($13 million), Union Bank ($35 million), and Iberia Bank ($2.5 million). Two overdraft fee class actions reported on in this blog that were not transferred to the MDL have also settled: Bank of Hawaii ($9 million) and Fifth Third Bank ($9.5 million).

Categories: Class Actions of Interest

Tags: Bank overdraft

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