The ATM Industry Association has announced a new service that will deliver compliance monitoring and regulatory alerts to United States chapter members in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. ATMIA …
Now that EFTA lawsuit filings are a thing of the past, will ADA lawsuit filings take their place? A class action lawsuit filed two weeks ago in Atlanta might offer an indication. According to a …
Bruce Carlson is busy — very busy. Since March 15, the Pittsburgh lawyer has filed 19 class action suits against ATM operators on behalf of a Texas woman, Victoria Gilkerson, alleging that …
Lawsuits stemming from the new ADA guidelines for ATMs continue to mount. Most recently, 19 FIs have been sued by a blind Texas woman for allegedly failing to meet ADA requirements. According to an …
California governor Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he had signed into law SB1186, which will protect business owners in the state from frivolous lawsuits filed under the Americans with Disabilities …
Diebold, Inc. today reported second quarter 2012 net income from continuing operations of $26.5 million, or $0.41 per diluted share. This compares with second quarter 2011 net income of $20.3 million …
Pittsburgh-based Century Heritage FCU, last week signed a consent decree in federal court that will result in the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit claiming that the FI's ATMs failed to comply with …
Just last week, the California Senate unanimously passed SB 1186, which would ban attorneys from sending "demand for money" letters to businesses for alleged ADA violations. Today, the National …
The California legislature is continuing to work toward a solution to abusive ADA lawsuits. Legal News Line reported that, on a bipartisan vote, the California senate this Tuesday passed SB 1186 …
The Digital Screenmedia Association is hoping to help deployers of self-service technology better understand the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Payment Card Industry Data …
A little more than a month after new Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines for ATMs took effect, the lawsuits are beginning to roll in. According to an article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a …
You win some, you get some thrown out of court. On March 28, a federal judge tossed serial ADA plaintiff Gerald Riviello Jr.'s case against Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union, an article at …
At least one U.S. senator is paying attention to the proliferation of predatory ADA lawsuits. An article at law.com reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) of California said that if the state …
Blind representatives have approached banks and other ATM owners about improving blind users' access to ATMs, relying on the 1992 Americans With Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines ("ADAAG") requirement that ATMs be "accessible to and independently usable by persons with vision impairments." ADAAG provides the technical requirements for making facilities accessible. The related regulation, which interprets the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), is promulgated by the Department of Justice and dictates which facilities must be accessible.