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King of Prussia, PA: (Feb-01-08) UBS Fund Services brought charges against MF Global Inc., formerly known as Man Financial Inc., alleging that it was owed money from a hedge fund scandal that defrauded its clients out of more than $200 million. Sources claimed that UBS Fund Services was the court-appointed receivers for a defunct King of Prussia, PA, hedge... - Buyout Cancellation, GSO Capital Partners agrees to pay Reddy Ice Holdings a $21 million business settlement
Los Angeles, CA: (Jan-31-08) Reddy Ice Holdings Inc., a maker of packaged ice, filed charges against hedge fund GSO Capital Partners, alleging that it was owed money due to the cancellation of a $1.1 billion deal, in which it was to be bought by GSO Capital Partners. Sources stated that the deal went awry, forcing the company and GSO to try and craft an al... - Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement
Gettysburg, PA: (Jan-30-08) Bruce Davis, of York, brought a lawsuit against Gettysburg Borough and its former police Chief Rolf Garcia, alleging that his civil rights were violated during a January 2006 pro-abortion rights rally. The suit claimed that Davis was arrested after Gettysburg Police broke up a group of 25 pro-abortion rights ralliers because the... - Dycom Industries agrees to $10 million wage and hour dispute settlement
Palm Beach, FL: (Jan-30-08) A wage and hour lawsuit was filed against Dycom Industries and three of its subsidiaries UtiliQuest LLC, STS LLC and Locating Inc. units. The suit stated that the wage and hour claims were filed between 2003 and January 2007, and covered several states where the subsidiaries did business. Sources close to the case stated t... - Hospital to pay $1.3M in Hasty Discharge Case
Jefferson County, TX: The family of a woman who died shortly after being discharged from emergency at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur, has been awarded a $1,315,276 settlement. The incident occurred in 2007, when then 47-year old Stacy Meaux went to emergency after complaining of pain and tightness in the chest. At the hospital she was diagn... - School District of Palm Beach County awards former Olympic Heights High School teacher $272,000 wrongful termination settlement
Boca Raton, FL: (Jan-28-08) Curtis Sherrod, a former Boca Raton teacher, brought charges against the School District of Palm Beach County, alleging that he was unlawfully terminated. Sources stated that the dispute between the two parties ensued for more than four years. Sherrod was a social studies teacher at Olympic Heights High School in Boca Raton un... - $3.5 Million Settlement Approved for Uninsured Patients
A Cook County circuit judge has approved a settlement in a class action suit between patients of Advocate Health Care and the health care company. The suit alleged that the not-for-profit hospitals run by Advocate had overcharged uninsured patients. Advocate, the largest provider of medical care in the Chicago area, operating Advocate Christ Hospital i... - Personal Assistant Awarded $5 Million in Lawsuit Alleging Forced Oral Sex
Miami, FL: A $5 Million settlement of punitive damages has been awarded to a former personal assistant to Rev. Ike Eikerenkoetter, who alleged that he performed oral sex on the preacher under threat of termination. Augusto Medina, the assistant, also alleged that the reverend grabbed his crotch while he was giving him a massage. Massage was one of... - Collapsed Bridge, Lisbon County pays undisclosed personal injury settlement
Lisbon, OH: (Jan-24-08) William Huffman, a Salem man, brought a lawsuit against the county, after a bridge was washed out by a flash flood. The suit stated that Huffman was severely injured when his car struck a collapsed bridge near his home about 6:30 a.m. Aug. 28, 2004. The bridge had washed out in the night during one of the worst flash floods in rec... - MedMira Inc. agrees to pay debt holder $500,000 settlement
Halifax, Canada: (Jan-24-08) MedMira Inc., the global market leader in premium rapid diagnostic solutions, has been embroiled in a lawsuit with a debt holder. Sources close to the case stated that the two parties reached a settlement agreement, aimed at resolving the dispute. Under the settlement, MedMira Inc. officials stated that the company will settl... - Gas Storage Tanks, Talisman Energy Inc. pays CNOOC Ltd. $40 million to resolve a business dispute.
Los Angeles, CA: (Jan-24-08) CNOOC Ltd. brought charges against Talisman Energy Inc., over issues related to Indonesia's Tangguh LNG project. Sources close to the case stated that the two parties had reached a settlement, aimed at resolving the dispute. Under the settlement agreement, Talisman will pay $40 million to CNOOC for a 2% stake in the BP PLC-led... - Rifu Apparel pays seven female employees $120,000 pregnancy discrimination settlement
Honolulu, HI: (Jan-23-08) The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought charges against Rifu Apparel and three affiliated companies, alleging that they discriminated against their employees because they were pregnant. The federal government said that the four Saipan garment manufacturers violated federal law by refusing to renew the employment con... - $9 Million Settlement Agreed For Alleged Medical Malpractice
Cook County, IL: A $9 million settlement has been agreed between the plaintiff in a medical malpractice lawsuit and the defendant hospital, prior to the lawsuit being filed. The suit stemmed from the death of a 39-year old mother of two who went into hospital for a routine procedure but was overmedicated and consequently stopped breathing. The suit a... - Silicon Valley entrepreneur pays $3 million insider trading settlement to SEC
San Francisco, CA: (Jan-22-08) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against the founder of Silicon Valley communications chip maker Saiyed Atiq Raza, a former president and chief operating officer of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), over trades he made in 2006 while serving as a director of San Francisco orthodontic dev... - Taser Misconduct, City of Lakewood pays epileptic man $90,000 personal injury settlement after refusing medical treatment and resisting police aid
Lakewood, WA: (Jan-21-08) William Grider and his wife, Kathy, brought a lawsuit against the municipality, the police department, Chief Larry Saunders, and four officers, after he was jolted with a stun gun and roughed up by police when he rejected medical aid following an epileptic seizure. The suit stated that Grider, 63, had a seizure and passed out at t... - Man Paralyzed In Workplace Accident Gets $25M
Bexar County, TX: A 40-year old man paralyzed as a result of a violently jerking earth scraper has been awarded $25 million in settlement of his lawsuit against Caterpillar and Holt Texas Ltd. In 2006, Alfonzo Lopez was operating a Caterpillar tractor-scraper when the machine began to jolt up and down. He sustained spinal fractures that left him par... - Las Vegas police award man $250,000 personal injury settlement after his neck was broken during his arrest
Las Vegas, NV: (Jan-21-08) Frankie Davis, a man whose neck was broken during his arrest in 2001, brought charges against the Las Vegas police, alleging that the incident at a downtown Las Vegas casino left him seriously injured. In his suit, Davis had accused Officer David Miller of battery and excessive force in the November 2001 arrest at the Las Vegas C... - Calgon Carbon awarded $9.25 million settlement after purchasing common stock of Advanced Separation Technologies Incorporated
Pittsburgh, PA: (Jan-21-08) Calgon Carbon Corporation brought charges against three companies, Progress Capital Holdings, Inc., Florida Progress Corporation, and Potomac Capital Investment Corporation, over Calgon Carbon's purchase of the common stock of Advanced Separation Technologies Incorporated (AST). Sources close to the case stated that the three co... - Senior Awarded $1.19 Million in Bus Accident Lawsuit
San Francisco, CA: An 89-year old senior who was thrown from his seat on a bus when the vehicle hit a tree burl, has been awarded a settlement of $1,189,782.58. Edwin M. Wilson sustained injuries to his right femur on July 22, 2007, as a result of the accident, and subsequently underwent open reduction-internal fixation surgery with hardware. In... - $1.25 Billion Settlement Reached with Black Farmers over Discrimination
Washington, DC: A long-standing class action between Black farmers and the US government reached a $1.25 billion settlement agreement Thursday, making history. The Pigford lawsuit was filed in 1997 and alleged that the African American farmers were deliberately excluded from government programs because of racism and treated unfairly with respect to...