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Sort by date 7,426 pages found matching settlement- $11M Settlement Gets Final Approval in Frontier TCPA Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: An $11 million settlement of a nationwide Telephone Consumer protection Act (TCPA) class action lawsuit against Frontier Communications has received final court approval. The complaint alleged that Frontier commissioned thousands of automated telemarketing calls which were made through a company called Virido in violation of the TCPA... - Broadspectrum Downstream Settles California Labor Class Action for $3.45M
Santa Clara, CA: A $3.45 million settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit brought against Texas-based Broadspectrum Downstream Services Inc. The workers alleged they were not compensated for the time it took to prep for shifts at California refineries, in violation of California labor law. Broadspectrum, formerly call... - $322MM Asbestos Lawsuit Verdict Good News for Asbestos Drilling Mud Workers
Jan-20-13 Lafayette, LA Last June 2012 the largest single plaintiff’s asbestos award of $322 million in US history against Union Carbide and Chevron and Conoco Phillips was retried and a second jury came back with a defense verdict that awarded zero dollars. However, Attorney Ben Stewart sees this asbestos drilling mud lawsuit as “a great victory for... - $265 Record Settlement for Victims of Amtrak Train Crash
Santa Clara, CA: A record $265 million settlement has been granted approval in settlement of the Amtrak train crash that occurred in Philadelphia in 2015, which killed eight people. U.S. District Court Judge Legrome Davis of Pennsylvania approved the settlement, believed to be among the largest of its kind, as there is a federal cap on damages th... - Bagatelle Wait Staff Win $1.1M FLSA Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a New York labor law class action lawsuit brought by wait staff at popular French restaurant Bagatelle in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The suit was brought by former servers Jallal Daghoughi and Maxime Lucas, who alleged that while they worked at Bagatelle their tips we... - Sexual Harassment Lands Nevada Employer in Hot Water
Jan-4-13 Las Vegas, NV In deference to the popular adage 'what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,' Nevada employment and labor violations against employees who work in the service industry in Nevada can come back to haunt an employer. A lawsuit filed by a disgruntled worker under the auspices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has resulted... - What Will 2013 Hold For Yasmin Birth Control?
Jan-3-13 St. Clair County, IL It's been a year since US District Judge David Herndon decided to postpone the trial associated with a Yasmin lawsuit in an effort to have the thousands of cases mediated instead, with the view of reaching a settlement. That effort with regard to Yasmin birth control, as well as Yaz lawsuits, resulted in the November 2012 settle... - Feds Reach $8M Settlement with Omnicare in False Claims Whistleblower Suit
Santa Clara, CA: An $8 million settlement has been reached in a qui tam lawsuit brought against Omnicare Inc, a subsidiary of CVS Health Corp, by The US Department of Justice and 28 states. The whistleblower lawsuit alleged the defendants violated the False Claim Act by incorrectly labeling generic drugs. The labeling procedure enabled claims to be... - $5.4M Settlement Reached in California Labor Law Class Action
San Francisco, CA: A $5.6 million settlement deal has been granted preliminary approval potentially ending a California labor law class action lawsuit alleging the staffing company Staffmark, failed to compensate its logistics workers for meal periods and overtime and failed to pay minimum wages. The lawsuit was filed by worker Earl Fronda against... - $28M Monitronics Robocall Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Cruz, CA: Monitronics has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action lawsuit alleging the company made automated telephone calls to phone numbers listed on the national Do Not Call Registry (DNCR) and to consumers who had not provided their consent. The settlement will address claims made in a... - WA Workers' Compensation Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Workers' Compensation is insurance coverage purchased by the employer/business that provides workers' benefits for job-related employee injuries. Washington law requires all employers to purchase Washington workers' compensation coverage (with a few exceptions). Each state has a different workers compensation program laws, with benefits covering medic... - Raptiva Pulled from Market Due to Concerns About Side Effects
Dec-17-12 San Antonio, TX It has been more than three years since Raptiva was voluntarily withdrawn from the market due to concerns about serious Raptiva side effects. Specifically, the drug was pulled after reports surfaced of a reported increased risk of Raptiva PML (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy), a rare progressive neurologic disease that is oft... - $247M Verdict Rendered In Bellwether DePuy Pinnacle Hip Replacement Trial
Dallas, TX: A $247 million verdict has been awarded against the maker of DePuy’s Pinnacle line of metal-on-metal hip implants, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc, and its parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J), with $90 million in punitive damages against J&J and $78 million in punitive damages against DePuy. The settlement is the third consec... - California-Based Bank Hit For Unpaid Overtime Across Five States
Dec-11-12 San Francisco, CA One would assume that an entity devoted to the care and management of client funds would be conversant with regard to regulations governing overtime pay laws . In this case, however, First Republic Bank was found to have violated overtime pay laws and has paid in excess of $1 million in overtime wages owed to almost 400 employees in fi... - $38M Settlement Reached in Extendicare Health Services Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: Extendicare Health Services Inc. (Extendicare) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (ProStep) have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eight states to resolve allegations that Extendicare billed Medicare and Medicaid for materially substandard elder care nursing services that were so deficient that they w... - $900K Settlement Final in Thrifty Payless Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $900,000 settlement of an unpaid wages and overtime class action lawsuit pending against Thrifty Payless Inc, has received final approval. The lawsuit will resolve claims brought by 7,400 current and former employees of the drugstore chain. The complaint was filed by Oscar Willis Jr. and Renee Ortiz who alleged that Thrifty Payl... - Family Awarded $7M in Prison Suicide Lawsuit
Santa Cruz, CA: A $7 million settlement has been awarded to the family of a mentally ill woman who killed herself while incarcerated in a privately-owned prison in Delaware County. The first responder negligence lawsuit was made by the mother of the deceased. According to claims made by Janene Wallace’s mother, her daughter, aged 35, was all... - $39M Settlement Reached in USAA Auto Insurance Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $39 million settlement has been agreed between class members and The United Services Automobile Association in a bad faith insurance lawsuit alleging the insurer breached the terms of auto insurance policies by failing to fully pay members for sales tax in the purchase of a comparable vehicle after their vehicles were written off... - $5M Discover Home Loans Preliminary TCPA Settlement Approved
Santa Clara, CA: Preliminary approval of a $5 million settlement has been granted in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action pending Discover Financial Services and Discover Home Loans Inc. The suit alleged that the defendants made unsolicited telemarketing calls to customers without receiving consent to do so. If you received telema... - MoneyGram Settles Fraud Class Action for $13M
New York, NY: A $13 million settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc. Brought by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, the lawsuit claimed that consumers who used MoneyGram' wire transfer service to send money to third parties were subject to fraud schemes. Forty...