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- $1.51B Deal Agreed in Syngenta GMO Corn Seed MDL (Mar-13-18)
- Bumble Bee Plead Guilty to Tuna Price Fixing with Possible $25M Fine (May-8-17)
- $8M Kombucha Consumer Fraud Settlement Reached with Wholefoods and Millennium (Mar-30-17)
- Preliminary Settlement Reached in Hardee’s Hepatitis A Class Action Lawsuit (Mar-2-17)
- $1M Settlement Proposed in Harmless Harvest Coconut Water Class Action Lawsuit (Jan-12-17)
- Noodle Soup Maker Settles MSG Consumer Fraud Lawsuit for $1.5M (Nov-3-15)
- $9.4M Settlement Reached in Hain Organic Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawsuit (Sep-24-15)
- Starkist Tuna Class Action Settlement Reached (Aug-27-15)
- Anheuser-Busch Reaches Settlement in Becks Beer Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawsuit (Jun-25-15)
- $1.4M Pepsi-Co & Quaker Trans Fat Consumer Fraud Class Action Settlement Reached (Aug-6-14)
- Red Bull Consumer Fraud Class Action Reaches $13M Settlement (Aug-5-14)
- Monster Settles Securities Class Action Lawsuit for $16M (Apr-17-14)
- Settlement Proposed in Naked Juice Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawsuit (Aug-28-13)
- $1.75M Settlement Proposed in Medela Breastmilk Class Action Lawsuit (Apr-24-13)
- Dairy Farmers Reach a Potential $46M Settlement for Price-Fixing (Mar-27-13)
- Man Infected with E. Coli Wins $695K Settlement in Food Poisoning Lawsuit (Jun-29-11)
- Peanut Corp. of America to Pay Settlements (Aug-23-10)
- Farmers Win Against Bayer Crop Sciences Jury Awards $48M Settlement (Apr-16-10)
- Tyson Foods Settles Consumer Class Action (Jan-13-10)
- Dannon Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $35 Million (Sep-18-09)
- ConAgra Peanut Butter Hundreds of Salmonella Cases Settled (May-29-09)
- Tyson Foods Donates Chickens as Part of Class Action Settlement (May-28-09)
- Listeriosis Class Action Settled for $27 Million (Feb-3-09)
- Potato Chip Manufacturers Settle Cancerous Lawsuit fo $2 Million (Aug-5-08)
- Purely Juice To Pay $1.5 Million as Settlement for False Advertising> (Aug-4-08)
- Bumble Bee Foods Undisclosed settlement reached in tainted foods lawsuit. (Jun-19-08)
- Pink Flesh Apples Earthbound Farms to pay six-figure settlement in orchard lawsuit. (May-9-08)
- Hotel Food Poisoning Thomson Holiday and JMC-Thomas Cook awards British travelers a £2.5 million personal injury settlement. (Feb-18-08)
- Tainted Spinach Family awarded settlement after two children became very ill after eating Natural Selection Foods spinach. (Nov-28-07)
- Tomato Salmonella Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim. (Nov-28-07)
- Natural Selection Foods $42,750 settlement in tainted spinach lawsuit. (Aug-27-07)
- Baskin-Robbins $500,000 settlement in false claims, consumer protection suit. (May-16-07)
- Coca-Cola Co. Deceptive trade practice suit ends with soft drink replacements and a payout to plaintiffs. (May-15-07)
- Kentucky Fried Chicken $340,000 penalty for not warning customers about dangerous chemicals present in fast food. (Apr-30-07)
- Old South Restaurant and Duke Manufacturing Co. $528,000 salmonella poisoning death settlement. (Nov-13-06)
- NVE Pharmaceuticals $260,000 settlement for false advertising of Stacker-2. (Aug-16-06)
- Cytodyne Technologies, a.k.a. Nutraquest. $1 million fraud settlement awarded to 11 agencies in six Bay Area counties as well as Monterey and San Benito counties. (Jun-16-06)
- Dole Food Company Undisclosed settlement reached in E.coli outbreak (Jun-14-06)
- Albertsons Inc. $2 million for overcharging customers by failing to subtract packaging weight. (Jun-1-06)
- Sam's Wine and Spirits $300,000 fine for extorting money from liquor distributors. (May-19-06)
- J.L. Foods and Wampler Foods $3 million settlement awarded to a woman who gave birth to a disabled baby after eating tainted turkey. (May-15-06)
- PepsiCo Inc. $1 million civil penalty for failing to warn consumers that labels contained lead. (Apr-25-06)
- Chi-Chi's Restaurant $6.25 million settlement awarded to a man to needed a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis A from the restaurant. (Sep-30-05)
- McDonald's $8.5 million will be spent on educating the public about the fast food restaurant's use of Trans Fats and their association to cholesterol and heart disease. (Aug-29-05)
- Restaurants A $265,000 settlement for mercury in fish. (Feb-8-05)
- McDonalds A $6 million settlement awarded to vegetarians who ate French Fries or Hash Browns made with beef byproducts. (Jan-9-05)
- DeGroot Dairy (contamination environmental regulations) (Nov-23-04)
- Sheng Hsiang Jen Foods Co A $16.7 million dollar verdict has been awarded to t.. (May-28-03)