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Boston, MA: A $2.5 million settlement has been reached between the estate of Rebecca Riley, and Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist Dr. Kayok Kifuji. Rebecca Riley died at the age of 4 from an overdose of clonidine prescribed by Dr. Kifuji. Her parents, Michael and Carolyn Riley were convicted of first-degree murder and second-degree murder respectively... - Los Angeles, CA Firefighter Dog Food Harassment Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: In October 2004, African American Tennie Pierce was served dog food with his spaghetti as part of a firefighter prank. Pierce filed a lawsuit against the city alleging harassment and discrimination in the Los Angeles Fire Department. The lawsuit claimed the incident was racially motivated and related to the roots of slavery where blac... - Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds to Pay $6.25 Million
Washington, DC: The country' two biggest tobacco companies have agreed to improve public access to internal tobacco-industry documents and to pay $6.25 million into a court fund that will go to support the country' largest online collection of tobacco documents, the Justice Department announced today. The agreement is part of the United States' lan... - Medtronic to Pay DOJ $23.5M to Settle Allegations that they Bought Doctors
Washington, DC: A $23.5 million settlement has been agreed by Medtronic and the US Justice Department, which will effectively end investigations into allegations that the company paid doctors between $1,000 and $2,000 per patient to implant its pacemakers and defibrillators. The allegations arose out of two lawsuits pending in California and Minnesot... - Landmark Settlement Reached in BPA Class Action
Toronto, ON: U.S. polycarbonate baby bottle maker, Philips Electronics Corporation North America, has become the first to settle a lawsuit over failure to tell consumers its products contained Bisphenol A (BPA), in what is being dubbed as a "landmark" development. Under the terms of the preliminary settlement, Philips is not allowed to use BPA i... - Strip Search Class Action Settled for $3 Million
San Antonio, TX: A $3 million settlement of a class action lawsuit involving Bexar County Jail was approved this week by a federal judge. The suit alleged thousands of people were illegally strip searched in Bexar County Jail. The suit, filed in 2007, alleged a blanket strip search policy violated inmates' constitutional rights. As a result of the ca... - $330,000 Settlement Approved for Roberts Hawaii Drivers
Honolulu, HW: A $330,000 settlement has been reached in the wages and overtime class-action brought against Roberts Hawaii by dozens of its tour bus drivers. The lawsuit alleged the company forced the drivers to work long hours without paying the proper overtime.According to the attorney for Roberts Hawaii, 83 drivers will receive payments under the... - Prius Headlight Class Action Certified Following Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: A federal judge has certified a class of roughly 320,000 owners and lessees of Prius hybrids who have reached a personal injury settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. over claims that the vehicles had defective LED headlights. The claims related to the defective headlights are separate from the litigation over sudden unintended acc... - New Car Class Action Settlements with Toyota and CADA
Washington, DC: Two proposed partial settlements of several class action lawsuits involving Toyota and the Canadian Automobile Dealer's Association (CADA) have been reached. The lawsuits allege certain automakers and trade associations conspired in violation of federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws to prevent virtually identical, b... - AT&T Agrees to $18 Million ETF Settlement
New Jersey: AT&T has agreed a settlement in the class action it's currently facing over early termination fees (ETFs), according to a notice issued by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Specifically, AT&T has agreed to pay $16 million in cash and a further $2 million in non-cash benefits to qualified class members who fi... - Zyprexa Settlement Costs Lilly $1.4 Billion
A settlement has finally been reached between drug maker Eli Lilly and the Department of Justice, over allegations of overzealous marketing of its antipsychotic medication Zyprexa . Lilly will pay a reported $1.4 billion to settle the claims, and plead guilty to a misdemeanour violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The settlement of crimina... - Gambling Addicts in Quebec Reach Tentative Multi-Million Dollar Settlement with Lotto-Quebec
Montreal, PQ: Loto-Quebec has reached a tentative multi-million dollar settlement in a lawsuit brought by thousands of compulsive gamblers who allege that video lottery terminals - or VLTs - are associated with pathological gambling. The class action, initiated in 2001, was brought by the addicts against the provincial lottery agency and currently... - $2.6 million settlement in shareholders lawsuit over public disclosures.
Stillwater County, MT: (Dec-10-07) Several stockholders and investors brought a lawsuit against Stillwater Mining Company, challenging the accuracy of the company's public disclosures concerning financial results and ore reserves. In addition to Delaware, the investors filed suit in federal courts in New York and Montana in 2002. Sources close to the case... - $92 million settlement ends long standing reservation sharing dispute.
Washington, DC: (Dec-08-07) The Yurok Tribe brought a lawsuit against the neighboring Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe, over a long standing dispute over reservation sharing. Sources stated that at the heart of the issue was money from logging five decades ago at a time when the two tribes shared a reservation. To end the dispute, Congress passed a settlement a... - BoFA Settles with CountryWide Investors
New York, NY: Bank of America has reached a settlement with former Countrywide Financial Corp institutional investors who decided not to join a $624 million class-action case that won court approval in February. The terms of the accord were not disclosed and Countrywide's former auditor KPMG was not part of the pact, according to the filing. ... - Station Night Club Fire Lawsuit Settled for $176 Million
West Warwick, RI: A settlement of $176 million has been approved by a federal judge, ending a lengthy lawsuit stemming from the infamous nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003. The Station Night Club fire killed 100 people. The settlement monies will be distributed among survivors of the fire who were severely injured, and the many children who los... - Schering-Plough Settles Clarinex Class Action for $165 Million
Newark, NJ: A $165 million settlement has been approved by a US District judge in the investor class action brought against Schering Plough. The suit alleged that the pharmaceutical company made fraudulent statements to investors about its allergy medicine, Clarinex. Specifically, the suit alleged that between May 2000 and February 2001 Schering-Plo... - Salary Structure, City of Peoria pays over $2 million for breaching previous settlement terms
Peoria, IL: (Nov-26-07) A trio of appellate judges in Ottawa alleged that the City Hall didn't follow through on a nearly decade-old settlement with several dozen women over unequal pay. Sources stated that the outcome of the ruling could set the city back several million. Court documents showed that the 3rd District Appellate Court, in its eight-page orde... - Capital One Settles Bank Fees Class Action
Brooklyn, NY: Settlement of a class action against Capital One Bank has been approved by a federal judge. The suit, filed in 2009 by lead plaintiff Eric Gunther, alleged that Capital One Bank imposed new and increased "miscellaneous account fees" without notifying customers after buying North Fork Bank. Details of the settlement have not been ma... - Settlement Reached in Female Athletes' Class Action
Pittsburgh, PA: On December 30th, the parties to a 2006 federal class action lawsuit between female student-athletes and Slippery Rock University announced that they have reached a settlement over gender equity in the University's athletics program. On December 21, 2009, U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose preliminarily approved the proposed amendments to...