The Class Action Almanac, Weiland’s Ratings & Recommendations is the only newsletter that rates class actions for consumers.

The newsletter gives a comprehensive profile of significant class actions. The reports are in plain easily understood language.

We tell consumers which class actions to stay away from and which class actions are worth a consumer’s time and attention.

Our ratings system is simple. We use the straight-forward ABCD and F ratings for most of our ratings. And when we reach our final recommendation, we use the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” symbol telling consumers to stay in the class or to opt out of the class.

Its all about money for consumers.

We also make estimates of how much money each consumer can expect if the plaintiff lawyers are right about their lawsuit.

We also identify markets and exchanges where consumers can sell their rights in a class action for whatever those rights are worth.

If it is an important class action, we will give consumers ratings and recommendations.

We don’t rate every class action. There are just too many class actions in today’s courts.

The class actions that we review are ones we think have national importance. We pay attention to the ones we think have a good chance of paying significant dollars to large numbers of consumers.

The Class Action Almanac, Weiland’s Ratings & Recommendations is a monthly publication.

The Class Action Almanac, Weiland’s Ratings & Recommendations arranges class actions into twenty-nine categories. Important class actions in each category are rated and updated twice a year.

Information used for rating purposes is gathered from public records, public filings, press releases, print news sources and electronic news sources. Most often, we also ask for information from the law firms, insurance companies and businesses.

We’re an almanac. And yes, we do make forecasts about the class actions. We tell our readers which class actions we think need to be weeded out of every consumer’s garden.

Unlike the information that the lawyers give out, our recommendations and our ratings are clear and coherent. What we tell consumers is understandable and decisive.

Ben Franklin would have liked us.