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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- FN Herstal USA. pepper pellet gun manufacturer Settlement
In October 2004, 21-year-old Victoria Snelgrove died after police fired pellets from pepper pellet guns into a disruptive crowd during the Red Sox' American League championship. The Snelgrove family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against FN Herstal USA., manufacturer of the pepper-pellet gun used by the Boston police. In an earlier suit, the family sett... - Roche, BASF and Aventis Antitrust class action Settlement
A class action lawsuit against Roche, BASF and Aventis alleged antitrust violations relating to vitamin sales in the 1990s. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claimed that the Australian, Asian and European branches of Roche, BASF and Aventis were involved in price fixing of animal grade vitamins which affected thousands of small-... - Microsoft Corp. Antitrust Settlement
Microsoft Corp. allegedly violated Vermont's consumer fraud act and a Windham Superior Court judge approved, making it a class action. Under the terms of the 2004 settlement, consumers and businesses that purchased certain Microsoft products both directly and indirectly between March 31, 1995, and Dec. 31, 2002, could apply for a reimbursement voucher t... - Irving, Exxon Mobil Corp. attorney's fees Settlement
In 1991, more than 10,000 service stations accused Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. of failing to provide promised discounts for wholesale motor fuel and fraudulently hiding its failure to pay. In 2001 a jury ordered Exxon to pay $500 million, but the company appealed that verdict. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Exxon's last appeal in June 2006, by... - Van Der Moolen Specialists USA stock loan Settlement
An investigation by the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) probing Van Der Moolen Specialists USA has concluded that the company's stock loan department had violated the regular stock loan transaction and committed related violations and that the company had failed to reasonably supervise the department. Van Der Moolen has agreed to pay the NYSE a fine of $... - The Hammond Port Authority architect Settlement
In 2005, Texas architect Charles Howard sued the city of Hammond, Indiana, alleging he was owed $1.7 million in back pay and penalties for design and construction oversight work he performed at the north side recreational facility since 1998. Howard had an implied contract with former Mayor Duane Dedelow Jr. The Port Authority assumed financial and oper... - Global Pharmaceuticals and Impax Laboratories Inc. false advertising Settlement
A lawsuit alleged that Global Pharmaceuticals and Impax Laboratories Inc. falsely advertised and marketed their products as generic equivalents to and substitutes for Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s drugs to treat pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. The two companies have agreed to pay Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. $23 million to settle-Solvay reports that $... - University of Missouri racial discrimination Settlement
In 2003, the University of Missouri (UMR) eliminated its men's golf program and Louis Ray Leuellyn lost his job as golf coach. A month later, Leuellyn's job as assistant golf shop manager was also terminated. Leuellyn had been the men's golf coach since 1996 and assistant golf shop manager since 1992. Leuellyn, who is black, filed a lawsuit alleging rac... - Odyssey Healthcare Inc. Whistleblower Settlement
Odyssey Healthcare Inc. was accused by two whistleblower actions of charges related to patient admission, retention and discharge practices and investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dallas-based Odyssey agreed to a $13 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of... - Sears, Roebuck and Co. disability discrimination Settlement
Almost 10 years ago a discrimination lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity against Sears, Roebuck and Co. The giant retailer was accused of failing to provide reasonable accommodations to Judith Keane, a former sales clerk who worked at the retailer's River Oaks Mall store in Calumet City. Keane was unable to walk long distances and... - Alcon Inc. patent Settlement
Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) filed a patent lawsuit against Alcon Inc. concerning Alcon's INFINITI vision system and the ADVANTEC and EVEREST software upgrades for the LEGACY surgical system. As well, Alcon filed a suit against AMO concerning AMO's SOVEREIGN, SOVEREIGN Compact and PRESTIGE surgical systems. Alcon has agreed to pay AMO $121 million to s... - University of California Coghill family Settlement
The University of California (UC) and Jeffrey Frazier, a contractor who handled donation forms, billing and transporting bodies for UC, allegedly sold a spine from a donated cadaver and lost the rest of the remains. Joseph Coghill died in 1999 and his family donated his body for research to the university but when one of Coghill's sons received his rema... - Nicor securities Settlement
In 2002, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a formal order of investigation into Nicor Inc.'s accounting of its natural gas costs at Nicor Gas Co. unit between 2000 and 2002. The natural-gas distributor has agreed to pay $10 million that would settle an anticipated civil action related to the SEC probe. (Jul-07-06) [ YAHOO FIN... - State of New Mexico civil rights Settlement
In the early 1980s three young women with mild to sever mental retardation were neglected by the state of New Mexico and placed in the home of a housekeeper and her husband where they allegedly suffered neglect and sexual abuse for 20 years. They were former residents of the former Los Lunas Hospital and Training School, the state's primary institution... - Nektar Therapeutics patent Settlement
In the 1990s former University of Alabama (UAH) chemistry Professor Milton Harris formed a company based on research that took place at UAH and sold it to Nektar Therapeutics (formerly Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc.) in 2001 for $164 million. In July 2005 a federal lawsuit alleged that the University of Alabama in Huntsville was improperly compensate... - Device-Maker Medtronic Weighed Down With Lawsuits
Sep-10-06 Minneapolis, MN On July 31, 2006, Jacqueline Kay Poteet, a whistleblower in a lawsuit against the giant medical device maker, Medtronic , filed a motion in a Memphis federal court to oppose the US Justice Department's plan to settle her case, along with another whistleblower's case, for $40 million. Critics point out that the identity of the other... - Plavix Sales to Soar due to Faulty Heart Stents
Sep-22-06 Natick, MA Recent studies have shown the new generation of drug-eluting heart stents to be associated with an increased risk of late stent thrombosis, cardiac mortality, myocardial infarction, and all cause mortality. And at the same time, they have proven to be little more effective, if any, than the older bare-metal stents that sell for a fraction... - FDA Needs To Ban Accutane
Sep-20-06 Austin, TX: Unfortunately hundreds of parents already know that Accutane can cause some teenagers to commit suicide. But new evidence of a link between the acne drug and depression in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology , will hopefully put an end to the years of claims by Hoffman-LaRoche that its drug is not responsible for the suicides. Scien... - Zyprexa: Another Link to Diabetes
Sep-19-06 Truro, NS In September 2005, Mary Allen was hospitalized and treated for manic depression. She was given Zyprexa . "I was never told about any side effects," she says. "My doctor nor I knew at the time of any correlation between Zyprexa and diabetes. "At the hospital, I was a subject of a clinical study to determine whether Zyprexa was more effecti... - J&J Can't Settle Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Cases Fast Enough
Sep-18-06 Whitehouse, NJ: More than 500 claimants are seeking "substantial compensatory and, where available, punitive damages," from Johnson & Johnson for injuries and deaths related to the Ortho Evra birth control patch, according to the company's Second Quarter Report filed with the SEC. However, if legal analysts are correct, J&J ain't seen nothin...