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Settlements
- Travis Ford A $150,000 settlement for breach of employment contract. (May-10-05)
- Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles A $4.5 million settlement for overcharging driver's licenses reinstatements. (May-9-05)
- RS Investment $30 million settlement with officials over hedge funds (May-6-05)
- Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. A 32.5 million for questionable exchange of variable annuities. (May-6-05)
- Staten Island A $450,000 wrongful death settlement. (May-5-05)
- Brenham City A $36,944 severance pay settlement. (May-5-05)
- City of Palo Alto A $21.5 million settlement for breact of contract with Enron. (May-5-05)
- AMD $10 million patent infringement settlement with Intergraph (May-5-05)
- Burriss Electrical Co. A $100,000 settlement for accidental death. (May-3-05)
- Mequon, Bayside, Fox Point and River Hills A $1.5 million wrongful death settlement. (May-3-05)
- Lloyd's Underwriters A $22 million settlement to cover asbestos claims. (May-3-05)
- Dave Matthews Band A $200,000 settlement for dumping sewage onto a tour boat. (May-3-05)
- Adelphia Communications A $715 million securities settlement. (May-3-05)
- 12 Construction Compainies A $12 million settlement to repair damages. (May-3-05)
- Safety-Kleen Former top executives ordered to pay $200 million (May-3-05)
- Providian Financial Corp. $105 million settlement over unlawful fees and charges to customer's credit cards (May-3-05)
- Federated Investors Inc. A $51 charge for illegal after hours trading. (May-2-05)
- Barts and London Hospital A 2.1 million euro settlement for medical negligence. (May-2-05)
- Science Applications International Corp. A $2.5 million contract settlement. (May-2-05)
- Tyson Foods Inc. A $1.5 million civil settlement. (May-2-05)
- United States Federal Government An $87,500 settlement for denying a refugee. (May-2-05)
- Rene Fisher and Janette Vahey A $5,000 defamation settlement. (May-2-05)
- Lyman Ward Military Academy A cadet abuse settlement. (May-2-05)
- Dexia A $518 million securities fraud settlement. (May-2-05)
- Pfizer Inc. $4 million settlement over misleading statements (May-2-05)
- City Electric Co. A $58,744 settlment for unlicensed use of software. (Apr-29-05)
- Hoffman-LaRoche et al. A $335 million antitrust settlement with vitamin makers (Apr-29-05)
- Stewart Title of California Inc. A $750,000 settlement for unlawful rebate activities. (Apr-28-05)
- Stockholm Restaurant A 50,000 kroner settlement for discrimination. (Apr-28-05)
- Brainerd Family YMCA A $167,500 wrongful death settlement. (Apr-28-05)
- Blount County Sheriff James Berrong A $50,000 gender harassment settlement. (Apr-28-05)
- Fleishman-Hillard A $4.5 million settlement for over billing Water and Power. (Apr-28-05)
- Virginia Beach Police A $750,000 shooting settlement. (Apr-28-05)
- Gambro Healthcare Laboratory Services $53 million Medicare fraud settlement (Apr-28-05)
- Wisconsin Energy Corp. $8.6 million settlement with Gidding & Lewis over contamination (Apr-26-05)
- Shell Oil Company $1.25 million land use settlement with New Mexico (Apr-26-05)
- Ft. Worth Water Gardens A $750,000 settlement for drowning of 4 people. (Apr-25-05)
- Celadon Trucking Services Inc. A $1.25 wrongful death settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- City of Ypsilanti A $100,000 settlement for an illegal search. (Apr-25-05)
- Culligan Water A $340,000 settlement for suffering emotional damages from a dead fly. (Apr-25-05)
- Northwest Airlines A $500,000 molestation settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- Rolling Meadows High School A $12.5 million settlement for a football practice accident that left a boy paralyzed. (Apr-25-05)
- Professional Police Supply Inc. A $165,000 wrongful death settlement while wearing a bulletproof vest. (Apr-25-05)
- Long Island Jewish Hospital A $6.4 million medical malpractice settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- St. Clair County Social Workers A $550,000 wrongful death and negligence settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- Miami-Dade County A $1.9 million wrongful death settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- UltraStar Cinemas A $6.85 million female employee harassement settlement. (Apr-25-05)
- Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa A $3.3 million settlement for abuse. (Apr-25-05)
- New York Police Department $103,000 back pay settlement plus $12,000 a year for severance pay. (Apr-25-05)
- BP America $30 million settlement with New Mexico over land use royalties (Apr-25-05)