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Azurix is a water services company and subsidiary of Enron Corp. It had a 30-year contract to provide water and wastewater services to 2.5 million people in 49 districts in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enron paid $438 million for the concession. Customers complained of brown, foul-smelling water while others did not have any water service fo... - Starbucks Coffee Burn Settlement
Manhattan lawyer Alice Griffin was at a Starbucks on Seventh Avenue in New York when the clerk slid her hot cup of coffee across the counter. It fell on her foot and Griffin suffered burn injuries. She filed a personal injury lawsuit against the coffee chain. A jury awarded Griffin $310,000 in a ruling upheld by State Supreme Court Justice. Starbucks wi... - Children's Toys Injuries
Injuries caused from Toys Since 1990, over 270 children and adolescents have died from toy related injuries and today we still face about 200,000 toy related emergency room visits each year. These injuries often result from innocent children swallowing or choking on small toys, falling off riding toys, or other injuries. A recent survey from t... - Zurich American Insurance Co. Business Interuption Claims Settlement
ABM Industries Inc. filed a lawsuit against the insurance company regarding a dispute over business interruption insurance claims in connection with the destruction of the World Trade Center. ABM provided janitorial, engineering and lighting services to the World Trade Center, where it employed more than 800 people before the September 11, 2001 attack... - Hyundai Advance and MSC Ilona Oil Spill Settlement
On December 7, 2004 the Hyundai Advance and the MSC Ilona were heading in opposite directions along the Pearl River Delta between Shenzhen and Shanghai. The two ships collided and the fuel storehouse of MSC Ilona leaked more than 1,200 tons of heavy oil into the river. The spill was 9 nautical miles long, 600 meters wide and seriously damaged the oceani... - Hoeganaes Corp. Smokestack Emissions Boater Settlement
Several boaters filed a lawsuit against the Cinnaminson metal powders manufacturing company claiming smokestack emissions damaged windshields on marina boats along the Delaware River in Delran and Riverside. Since 1997, more than 1,700 boaters had to replace and cover windshields known as Isenglas. Hoeganaes did not admit wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay... - Kootenai County Death Row Inmate Wrongful Imprisonment Settlement
Donald Paradis was sentenced to death in 1980 in the strangling of Kimberly Palmer in northern Idaho. He was freed in 2001 after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that he had been denied a fair trial. Paradis sued for wrongful imprisonment after his conviction was overturned. Kootenai County has agreed to pay $900,000 to... - Gibraltar Design Matanzas High School Construction Settlement
Flagler County School Board filed an $11 million lawsuit against the design firm related to construction at the Matanzas High School. In March 2004, the construction of Matanzas was stopped after the facilities director and an architect discovered that engineering plans created by Gibraltar Design called for a flimsily built school. They noted the secon... - Arizona Diamondbacks Jason Grimsley Contract Settlement
Jason Grimsley was the relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks until he was released last June after admitting to federal agents he used illegal performance enhancing drugs. The Diamondbacks refused to pay him the rest of his contract. Grimsley's agent, Joe Bick, along with the Major League Baseball Players Association filed suit against the baseb... - Edison Chouest Offshore Breach of Contract Settlement
The Port of Galveston filed a $91 million breach of contract lawsuit in February 2005 against the company. In 2000, Edison Chouest Offshore had signed a lease agreement to build a terminal on Pelican Island to support offshore energy activities. The project, dubbed C-Port Galveston, never started. The Port accused Edison Chouest of reneging on a multi... - Rabobank King City Deposit Interest Settlement
King City filed a lawsuit against the new owner of the former Community Bank of Central California regarding a financial dispute. The city deposited $4.4 million into the bank as a deposit, but Rabobank maintained the city put the money up as collateral for loans on a city downtown redevelopment project called Town Square. In a settlement agreement, the... - Warwick, RI Detective Wrongful Conviction Settlement
In 1989, detective Scott Hornoff was convicted of murdering Victoria Cushman. He spent six years in prison for allegedly killing his former lover until Todd Barry confessed to the murder in 2002. Hornoff was released from prison. He filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the city of Warwick, seeking reinstatement to the city's police department. He a... - Bonita Springs, FL Bradanna Contract Settlement
The city had fined and eventually fired contractor Bradanna over an unfinished YMCA soccer field project as the final punch list was not done and considered to be behind schedule. Bradanna sued the city for the remainder of its contract. The city of Bonita Springs must pay $202,000 to Bradanna, and the contractor must finish the final punch list in 75 d... - NVE Pharmaceuticals Stacker-2 Advertising Settlement
A lawsuit was filed against the company claiming it misled consumers by making false and misleading claims about the safety and effectiveness of its products. The lawsuit claimed NVE violated the New Jersey State Consumer Fraud Act through ads that exaggerated the benefits and minimized the risks of Stacker-2 and other Ephedra based supplements. The settl... - Government of Libya Pan Am Bankruptcy Settlement
On December 21, 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed and destroyed by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland. In the aftermath of the bombing, international air traffic declined; Pan Am filed for bankruptcy relief and the airline ceased operations in December 1991. The Government of Libya has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement to Pan Am's administr... - City of Fargo North Dakota State University Flood Damage Settlement
North Dakota State University sued the city after a storm flooded the Fargodome. The campus suffered heavy damage when rainfall runoff got into the dome and flowed through a steam tunnel that connects the dome to the university. Fargo's City Commission has approved a $2 million settlement. (Aug-15-06) [ WCCO NEWS ] Legal Help If you have a... - Washington State Tribal Land Settlement
Tribal and local officials filed a lawsuit against the state regarding disputes over the disturbance of an ancient American Indian village and burial ground. The state Department of Transportation's work on a bridge construction yard stopped in 2003 after officials discovered human remains in the area. More than 350 skeletal remains and numerous Indian... - Barton County Community College Wrongful Termination Settlement
For three years Jennifer Schartz was a non-tenured, part-time instructor and adviser to the student newspaper. In April 2004, despite recommendations from her supervisors and President Veldon Law, the school's trustees voted against renewing her contract. Schartz filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the college claiming she was dismissed in reta... - Wilson Borough Police Department Officer Brutality Settlement
On August 23, 2003 Brian Johnson was allegedly attacked and beaten by part-time police officer Gurshinder Martharu at Wilson Borough police headquarters. Johnson went to police headquarters with his sister to pick up his girlfriend, Kendyll Mimlitch, who had gone to the station to give a statement about an assault that occurred earlier in the day. As th... - ProCycle Consumer Fraud Settlement
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a 'bait and switch' consumer protection lawsuit against the motorcycle dealer. The lawsuit claimed ProCycle lured customers into the store with misleading advertising and then charged higher prices by adding processing fees, credit card surcharges, assembly charges, delivery fees and other hidden costs. ProCycle...