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Driggs, ID: (Oct-25-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against Sagewood, LLC, located in Driggs, Idaho, alleging that the facility had storm water violations under the Clean Water Act. EPA officials stated that the violations occurred at the Sagewood Subdivision Construction Site, located at Ski Hill Road and 5th in Driggs. ... - Pay to Play Insurance, Ace Ltd. pays $4.5 million settlement for bid rigging and price fixing insurance
Miami, FL: (Oct-25-07) Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and nine other states brought charges against Ace Ltd., a Hamilton, Bermuda, insurance holding company, alleging that company officials were involved in a "pay to play" scandal with other insurance brokers. The charges asserted that ACE had conspired with other insurance brokers after it came to... - Metropolitan Life Insurance Discrimination Settlement
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed to a settlement with almost fifty-five hundred customers and former customers in Texas. The settlement comes from allegations towards the company of race-based pricing. The settlement will cost Metropolitan $1.6 million dollars. The payment comes as a part of a larger, national lawsuit against the company. Most o... - Bankruptcy Reorganization, Calpine Corp. pays $2.13 million bankruptcy settlement
New York, NY: (Oct-24-07) Decatur County brought charges against Calpine Corp., and reached a settlement in which the bankrupt company agreed to a $2.13 million payout out of a $2.4 million claim by the county. Records how that in January 2007, the county hired bankruptcy lawyers to appear in a New York bankruptcy court after Calpine claimed it owed only $... - Unauthorized Searches, GunnAllen Financial pays $50,000 fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
New York, NY: (Oct-24-07) The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) brought charges against GunnAllen Financial of Tampa, Florida, alleging that a GunnAllen computer was used for 205 unauthorized searches. FINRA runs the widely used BrokerCheck, an online database of 5,100 securities firms and 672,000 brokers and other people who require a licens... - Optometrist Harassment, National Vision Inc. pays $175,000 after doctor harassed four female patients
Lufkin, TX: (Oct-25-07) Four women brought a lawsuit against Dr. S.J. Charendoff, a Lufkin optometrist with National Vision Inc., alleging that they were sexually harassed by him. The women's complaints stemmed from alleged incidents in 2003 and 2004 where they said Charendoff rubbed their arms, backs and shoulders, and claimed that he rubbed his crotch on... - Hydroelectric Dam Land, Avista Corp. pays state of Montana $4 million per year for renting land
Helena, MT: (Oct-24-07) The state of Montana brought charges against Avista Corp., as part of its effort to collect rent payments for state owned land underneath hydroelectric dams. Records show that Avista, of Spokane, WA, owns Avista Utilities, which serves about 350,000 electricity customers in Eastern Washington and northern Idaho. As part of a set... - Logging Forest Fire, Babbitt Logging Inc. and Stimson Lumber Co. pays state of Idaho $1.5 million for wildfire damage
Boise, ID: (Oct-23-07) The state of Idaho brought charges against Babbitt Logging Inc., based in Coeur d'Alene, and Portland, OR-based Stimson Lumber Co., over a 2003 wildfire that torched nearly a square mile of state-owned timber on the eastern shore of Priest Lake. The state filed suit claimed that the companies caused the fire by rigging logging equipm... - Storm Sewer Death, City of Omaha pays family $207,500 wrongful death settlement after Chad Sieger was swept away by storm waters
Omaha, NE: (Oct-23-07) The family of Chad Sieger brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, after the man drowned when he was washed into an Omaha storm sewer in 2004. Reports state that Sieger, 29, of Bellevue was driving near 108th Street and Borman Avenue in a heavy rainstorm on July 22, 2004, when his car stalled. Police said he got out of his... - Screenplay Dispute, Spyglass Entertainment Group and Hollywood Pictures Corp. pay Jerry Lewis undisclosed settlement for a remake of
Los Angeles, CA: (Oct-23-07) Jerry Lewis brought a lawsuit against Spyglass Entertainment Group and Hollywood Pictures Corp., two entertainment companies, over a proposed remake of his 1961 movie "The Errand Boy". The suits were filed in August 2006, with Lewis claiming that he was owed money and alleging breach of contract and fraud. Lewis claimed that a sc... - Water Contamination, Quaker Chemical Corp. pays Orange County Water District $2 million for environmental damages
Conshohocken, PA: (Oct-23-07) The Orange County Water District (OCWD) brought charges against AC Products, Inc. (ACP), a subsidiary of Quaker Chemical Corp., a leading global provider of process chemicals, chemical specialties, services, and technical expertise to a wide range of industries, over environmental litigation that stemmed from water contaminati... - Cash Commissions, MedicalCV pays J Giordano Securities Group a $750,000 cash settlement over an agreement dispute
Minneapolis, MN: (Oct-22-07) J Giordano Securities Group brought a lawsuit against MedicalCV, Inc., over a dispute that stemmed from an agreement that the parties entered into in December 2004. MedicalCV, Inc. previously paid J Giordano Securities Group cash commissions of $573,000 and issued a warrant for the purchase of 114,600 shares of common stock in... - Portfolio Patent, Microsoft Corp. pays Timeline Inc. $5 million for patent infringement
New York, NY: (Oct-22-07) Timeline Inc. brought a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that the software giant infringed on its patents. Timeline, a Seattle patent-holding company, stated in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had reached a settlement with Microsoft and that the dispute will be resolved after Microsoft pays $5 million... - Shareholder Buyout, Leucadia National Corp. pays investors $13.7 million settlement
Wilmington, DE: (Oct-21-07) A series of shareholder lawsuits were brought against Leucadia National Corp., a holding company with interests in insurance, wine and real estate, regarding the 2005 buyout of the mining firm MK Resources Co. Sources reveal that in June 2005, the company said it would pay 0.0317 of its shares for each MK share, or about $1.27... - Officer Retaliation, Nassau County must pay $150,000 settlement to corrections officer for retaliation from a previous lawsuit
Nassau, NY: (Oct-19-07) Patricia Luca, a corrections officer, brought a federal lawsuit against the county, its police department, and the civil service commission, alleging that they kept her from becoming a police officer in retaliation for her earlier lawsuit. The Nassau corrections officer of 12 years had earlier won a settlement from the sheriff's dep... - Business Ethics, Host America Corp. agrees to pay $2.45 million class action settlement for acting in an unlawful manner
Hamden, CT: (Oct-19-07) A class action lawsuit was filed against Host America Corp. and some of its past and present directors and officers, alleging that the defendants acted in an unlawful manner, violating business ethics. As part of a settlement reached, the suit that was being considered in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut was res... - School Athletic Fields, Gilbane Building Co. and Amsco Inc. pay $750,000 settlement to repair land at Nashua High School North
Nashua, NH: (Oct-17-07) The city of Nashua brought a lawsuit against several parties over the quality of the athletic fields at Nashua High School North. Shawn Smith, director of plant operations, said the upper fields, those closest to Broad Street, have been unusable after rain because the water does not drain off the fields. The suit named Gilbane Bui... - Wastewater Overflow, City of Holyoke pays $500,000 settlement for property damage
Holyoke, MA: (Oct-18-07) Travelers Insurance brought a lawsuit against the city on behalf of property owners whose property was damaged by overflow from a wastewater treatment plant run by the city in April 2003. The insurance company claimed that the city was negligent when it flooded several businesses. As part of a settlement reached, the city council u... - Reverse Discrimination, Two white firefighters awarded $132,500 settlement for racial bias
Mobile, AL: (Oct-17-07) William Glisson, a white firefighter, brought a lawsuit against the city, alleging that he faced reverse discrimination while he was at work at the department. He also claimed that he lost a promotion to a black firefighter because of race. As part of a settlement reached, city officials approved of paying Glisson $42,500, resolving... - Rear Ended, Greenwich pays woman injured after police cruiser accident
Greenwich, CT: (Oct-17-07) Andrea Tomberg, a town woman, brought a lawsuit against Daniel Hendrie, a police officer, alleging that he rear-ended her sport utility vehicle with his cruiser en route to an emergency call in Chickahominy. Tomberg was driving northbound on Hamilton Avenue on April 6, 2004, in her Lexus SUV when Hendrie's police cruiser struck t...