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San Joaquin County, CA: A train conductor who was injured on the job - while working for Burlington, Northern Santa Fe Railway in 2003, has been awarded a $1.74 million settlement. Neil Jensen was working in the Fresno yard switching cars when he alleged that the cut lever he was pulling up stopped abruptly. This caused him to suffer two torn lig... - Ambassadors Group Settles Securities Class Action for $7.5M
Spokane, WA: A $7.5 million settlement deal has been signed by Spokane-based Ambassadors Group, to settle a securities class action brought by investors in 2009. The suit was filed with a New Jersey electrical workers pension fund as the lead plaintiff. A year later the suit was amended, with the national Plumbers Union Local No. 12 pension fund... - Whistleblower Student Loan Suit Settles for $60K
Washington, DC: A suit resulting from allegations made by a whistleblower from the US Department of Education, has been settled for $60,800. Known as the 9.5 student loan scandal the suit named 10 student loan companies as defendants who participated in a scheme to defraud the plaintiff. The suit was filed under the False Claims Act after th... - Ayuda Legal Para Victimas del Fraude al Consumidor o Fraude Financiero
Los derechos financieros de los ciudadanos y los residentes pueden ser violados y dañados por la promoción por las empresas de servicios, productos, inversiones, y oportunidades fraudulentos. Estas actividades ilegales pueden ser clasificadas como fraude de consumido y el fraude financiero. La protección de usted y sus vecinos cont... - Woman Awarded $450K in Wrongful Termination Suit Against Goodyear
Fayettevill, NC: A jury in Cumberland recently awarded Lashanda Shaw $450,000 as settlement of her wrongful termination suit against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Fayetteville plant. Shaw's trial took five weeks. The jury unanimously agreed on the compensatory damages Friday afternoon. The trial ended Monday after jurors voted not to award punit... - Drilling Mud - Asbestos Exposure to Mud Engineers from Oil Well Drilling Mud
Asbestos has been added to Drilling Mud , which was used in the oil industry, for decades. Since the 1960s, such asbestos drilling has occurred both onshore and offshore. Drilling mud composition contained asbestos, which led to mud engineers being exposed to asbestos drilling mud , and the potential to develop asbestos-related disease such as asbest... - Brakes Man Diagnosed with Mesothelioma Awarded $17M
Oakland, CA: A man diagnosed with asbestos mesothelioma in January 2010 has been awarded $17,470,000 as settlement of his asbestos claim against ArvinMeritor, Carlisle and Pneumo Abex. Plaintiff Gordon Bankhead, 66, worked as a parts man around heavy-duty vehicles from 1965 to 1999, handling brakes that contained asbestos. He worked mostly for... - Two Defendants in Accutane IBD Case Settle
St. Clair County, Il: Defendants Hoffman La Roche, and Roche Laboraories have negotiated a settlement in a seven year lawsuit brought by a man who alleged he developed Accutane related inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as a result of taking the acne medicine. The terms of the settlement are confidential. The suit was brought by Jason Peipert who... - $260K Awarded to Man with Surgical Pad Left In his Body
Buffalo, NY: Justin Bartle has been awarded $260,000 as settlement of his lawsuit alleging that he suffered post-operative complications as a result of a surgical pad being left inside his body. Bartle sued Buffalo's Sisters of Charity Hospital and an unaffiliated surgeon alleging that their failure to count the number of pads that the surgeon had us... - Plane Crash, Estate of Rick Potter pays $1 million wrongful death settlement to widow
Stafford County, VA: (Jan-04-08) Carole W. Green, the widow of one of the men killed in a February 2006 airplane crash in Stafford County, brought a wrongful death claim against the estate of Rick Potter. Potter was the real estate developer and pilot who owned the plane her husband, Graham Green III, was in Feb. 22, 2006, the night of his death. Records s... - Vehicle Maps, Acacia Research Corp. pays Sprint Nextel Corp. confidential settlement for patent infringement
Newport Beach, CA: (Jan-02-08) Officials from Acacia Research Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that the companies had reached a settlement in their patent infringement dispute, ending all pending litigation surrounding it. Acacia Research Corp., which develops, acquires, and licenses patented technologies, stated that its Telematics Corp. unit reach... - School Security, Eastern Michigan University pays $2.5 million wrongful death settlement after a female student was killed on campus
Ypsilanti, MI: (Jan-02-07) The US Department of Education (DOE) brought charges against Eastern Michigan University (EMU), following the death of 22-year-old student Laura Dickinson in 2006. Sources stated that the death occurred on campus, due to alleged lack of security and surveillance. As part of a settlement, the university was fined $357,500 fo... - $3.7 Million Awarded in Workplace Injury
Broward County, FL: A $3.3 million settlement has been awarded by a jury in the case of a laborer who suffered amputation of all the fingers on his right - which is his dominant hand - resulting from a workplace accident involving a mechanical press in 2005. Phiteau Dalien who was 33 years of age at the time, had his hand caught in a vintage 50... - Defective Roof, Four companies pay a $1.5 million settlement for faulty installation at the Kane County Judicial Center
Kane County, IL: (Dec-27-07) Kane County brought a lawsuit against Architects Wight & Co., Serena Sturm Architects Ltd., general contractor Frederick Quinn Corp., and installer Specialty Associates Inc., alleging breach of warranty, trespass, and nuisance. Sources close to the case stated that the dispute revolved around the companies' role in installing t... - Superfund Cleanup, W.R. Grace & Co. agrees to pay $34 million settlement towards cleanup costs
San Antonio, TX: (Dec-19-07) The US Justice Department and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against the global supplier of chemicals, W.R. Grace & Co., over cleanup costs associated with 32 Superfund sites nationwide. Sources state that the company, with its corporate headquarters in Columbia, MD, has employees and operations in... - Jury Awards $600.000 in DSHS Civil Suit
Olympia, WA: A former foster child who suffered sex abuse as a child in Wenatchee has been awarded a $600,000 settlement by an Olympia county jury hearing her suit. The jury found that the state Department of Social and Health Services and a former DSHS counselor, Connie Saracino, were neglignet in that they failed to act expediently in removing the... - $8 million in penalties in substandard construction suit.
Louisville, KY: (Dec-10-07) State and federal prosecutors brought charges against Gohmann Asphalt and Construction of Jeffersonville, Ind., a road contractor, alleging that the company falsified tests on asphalt samples on more than 100 roads and highways in Kentucky and Indiana. The lawsuit stemmed from work Gohmann did around the two states from 1997 thr... - $19.8 million payout in police misconduct lawsuit.
Chicago, IL: (Dec-08-07) Aaron Patterson, Leroy Orange, Stanley Howard and Madison Hobley brought charges against the city and its police department, alleging that they were tortured by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge and his Area 2 cohorts. Sources stated that in 2006, the city reached a tentative, $14.8 million settlement with Orange, Howard and Hobl... - Ameriprise Securities Fraud Class Action Reaches $27M Settlement
New York, NY: A preliminary $27 million settlement has been agreed in a securities class action suit filed against Ameriprise Financial Inc. The suit, filed by clients of Ameriprise's independant-brokerage unit, alleged that the private placement interests sold in two companies - Medical Capital and Provident Royalties -- that went bankrupt in 2009 -... - Technology Contract, Herley Industries Inc. agrees to pay $6 million settlement for breaching a technology agreement
San Francisco, CA: (Dec-06-07) EADS Deutschland GmbH brought a lawsuit against Herley Industries Inc., alleging that the company breached a transfer of technology agreement entered into in May of 2001. Sources stated that in a recent development in the case, the parties had entered into a settlement agreement, in which Herley Industries agreed to pay $6 mi...