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Twenty-nine settlements have been reached in several lawsuits, including one class-action suit filed on behalf of 500 plaintiffs. The suits alleged that the company's former wood treatment facility in Avoca, PA caused ground contamination which lead to serious health problems or deaths. (Nov-07-03) [ CITIZENS VOICE ] Legal Help If you have... - Settlements and Verdicts: Allianz Insurance Co.
A $47.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. regarding losses suffered in the 1999 recall of Coke products in Belgium. The bottler was required to destroy about 17 million cases of beverages when nearly 250 Belgians were allegedly sickened by Coke beverages. (Oct-03-03) [ ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE ] ... - Settlements and Verdicts: Raytheon Co. (Oct-31-03)
A $6.8 million verdict has been found in favor of Reba Mansell, the widow of a man who invented a system for tracking vehicles with global-positioning technology. The suit alleged that the company had failed to pay the 4% royalty on sales of the vehicle-locating systems. (Oct-31-03) [ MIAMI HERALD ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem an... - Settlements and Verdicts: Clackamas County, Oregon.
A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by fired deputy Carl Bell alleging racial discrimination. The suit charged that Bell was fired after complaining about racist comments made by his trainers and colleagues about him and others. (Oct-22-03) [ OREGONIAN ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be co... - Settlements and Verdicts: Black Warrior Minerals.
A $20 million verdict has been awarded to the estate of Jimmie Bogue. Bogue was killed in July 2002 when a coal truck carrying 92,000 pounds of coal (two tons over the legal limit), hit his sport utility vehicle. (Oct-26-03) [ TUSCALOOSA TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, p... - Settlements and Verdicts: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
A $10 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Kaiser Permanente. The suit alleged that the department knowingly underpaid them for care of low-income patients by the amount of $14 million between 1996 and 2001. (Oct-26-03) [ DENVER POST ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at... - Settlements and Verdicts: ChevronTexaco Corp.
A settlement of approximately $278.5 million has been reached in the lawsuit filed by state and federal environmental regulators. The suit alleged that the company's plants located in El Segundo, Richmond, Pascagoula, Kapolei, and Salt Lake City were emitting more pollution than permits allowed, and that "extremely hazardous substances" had been released... - Settlements and Verdicts: Intrepid of North Carolina Inc.
A $685,000 settlement has been reached in the federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleging Medicaid fraud. The settlement also requires that the company be monitored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a period of five years. (Oct-10-03) [ TRIANGLE BUSINESS JOURNAL ] Legal Help If you have... - Settlements and Verdicts: Circle K store chain and Gurinder Ruby.
An $8 million verdict has been awarded to Arwa Farraj, a former Circle K store clerk from California. Farraj filed the suit against her former boss, alleging that he had cheated her out of a winning lottery ticket worth millions. Ruby tricked her into thinking that the Quick Pick California SuperLotto ticket she had purchased on Christmas Day in 1999 was... - Settlements and Verdicts: Circle K store chain and Gurinder Ruby.
An $8 million verdict has been awarded to Arwa Farraj, a former Circle K store clerk from California. Farraj filed the suit against her former boss, alleging that he had cheated her out of a winning lottery ticket worth millions. Ruby tricked her into thinking that the Quick Pick California SuperLotto ticket she had purchased on Christmas Day in 1999 was... - Settlements and Verdicts: Flextronics, International Ltd.
$934 million has been awarded in compensatory and punitive damages to Beckman Coulter, Inc., a manufacturer of instrument systems, chemistries and supplies. The suit was filed against Flextronics, and its U.S. subsidiary Flextronics USA, Inc., formerly known as Dovatron, alleging breach of contract and other claims. (Sep-24-03) [ BIZ INC ] Legal Hel... - Settlements and Verdicts: State of Wisconsin.
A $365,000 settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed by 4 convicted sex offenders who were kept in seclusion under Wisconsin's sexual predator law. The suit claimed that while they were inmates at the Wisconsin Resource Center in Oshkosh, the state illegally subjected the plaintiffs to long periods of isolation for disciplinary reasons altho... - Settlements and Verdicts: Coca-Cola Company.
A $540,000 settlement has been reached in the whistleblower lawsuit filed by former finance manager Matthew Whitley. The suit claimed that Whitley was laid off after he sent a memo detailing allegations of widespread fraud to the company's president. (Oct-12-03) [ SUNDAY TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be co... - Settlements and Verdicts: City of Des Moines, IA.
A $200,000 verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed by 53-year-old Richard Summy. Summy was blinded in one eye when he was hit by a golfball from the city-owned Waveland Golf Course. The suit alleged that the city was responsible because they had not maintained a tree-line barrier between the adjoining first and 18th holes. (Oct-11-03) [ KCCI ] ... - power window
Has your child been injured or killed by the power windows in your car? Since 1990 at least 26 children have been killed when power windows closed on them. Rocker or toggle-type switches can easily be activated by a child who can then be caught in the window and choked to death. Newer, safer switches must be pulled up to raise the window. "Becky Hergatt... - Settlements and Verdicts: Stanford Hospital and Palo Alto Medical Clinic
A $70 million verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of 9-year-old Michael Cook. The suit claimed that the Hospital staff gave Michael a standard blood screening test for metabolic disorders when he was only 4 hours old, however in order to detect disorders, the test should not be given for 24 hours. Michael suffered brain d... - Settlements and Verdicts: Sundstrand
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the families of Garuda Airlines crash victims. The Indonesian airline's domestic flight from Jakarta to Medan, clipped a tree on a mountain ridge and crashed in 1997, killing all 234 on board. The suit claimed that Sundstrand's ground proximity warning system on the plane was faulty. Plaintif... - Settlements and Verdicts: Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
A $3.2 million dollar wrongful death verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the parents of New Mexico State Police officer Damon Talbott, 21, who was killed in an air ambulance helicopter training crash in 2001. The hospital was found to have been negligent in connection with its selection and investigation of Medical Air Transport. (Sep... - Settlements and Verdicts: Jimmy Williams
will receive a $750,000 settlement after he spent 10 years in jail for a rape he didn't commit. (Sep-23-03) [ NEWS 5 ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to submit your complaint. ... - Settlements and Verdicts: Microsoft
MSfreePC.com is a website that has been set up to help MIcrosoft customers process claim and receive an "instant settlement" of $100 to purchase computer products, as part of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement Microsoft has agreed to. [ SETTLEMENT WEBSITE] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at...