Bank of America Customers Advance Lawsuit Over Pandemic Fees

Bank of America Corp. failed to shake a potential class action alleging it made false promises about pandemic-era relief from bank fees.

The plaintiffs plausibly argued they expected to avoid fees for overdraft and nonsufficient funds based on Bank of America’s public statements promising relief, without realizing the programs would end in August 2020, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said in a Wednesday ruling.

“Plaintiffs have sufficiently pleaded that a reasonable consumer and average consumer would see BANA’s statement that it was helping ‘clients experiencing hardship from impacts of ...