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Settlements
- Ariba A $37 million settlement for computer software patent infringement. (Feb-24-05)
- Health Net A $28.5 million settlement for health claims. (Feb-24-05)
- City of Utica and Oneida County A $120,000 settlment for wrongful conviction. (Feb-24-05)
- Calaveras County A $3.39 million settlement for road repairs. (Feb-24-05)
- NorVergence An 85% lease forgiveness settlement (Feb-21-05)
- Boating Accident Merchant seaman recovers $457,000 from Maersk. (Feb-18-05)
- Boating accident Waterski pierces skull for a $3.6 million verdict. (Feb-18-05)
- Boating Accident $3.43 million awarded to man who lost his right leg. (Feb-18-05)
- Boating Accident $575,000 settlement for offshore collision accident. (Feb-18-05)
- Boating Accident$895,000 settlement with Hargett Marine. (Feb-18-05)
- Boating Accident $1.25 million verdict. (Feb-18-05)
- Mike Wing A $200,000 settlement awarded to the US Space & Rocket Center. (Feb-18-05)
- University of Pennsylvania and the Children's National Medical Center (Feb-18-05)
- Columbia Management Advisors Inc. and Columbia Funds Distributor Inc. A $140 million settlement awarded to FleetBoston Financial. (Feb-18-05)
- Boston & Maine Railroad A $3 million settlement for avioding property tax. (Feb-18-05)
- The Ehrlich A $100,000 settlement for wrongful termination. (Feb-18-05)
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. A $135,540 fine was paid to the Federal Labor Department. (Feb-18-05)
- Micheal Jackson A multi-million dollar settlement given to ex-wife. (Feb-18-05)
- UK Insurance Industry A 10 million pound settlement awarded to asbestos exposed workers. (Feb-18-05)
- Credit Lyonnais A $600 million settlement for investment fraud. (Feb-18-05)
- CIBC Mellon Trust Co. A $6 million settlement for internal breach. (Feb-18-05)
- Trinity Homes A settlement for water damage. (Feb-17-05)
- West Yorkshire Police A 600,000 pound settlement awarded to police. (Feb-17-05)
- Diocese of Paterson A $5 million settlement awarded to sexually abuse men. (Feb-17-05)
- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. A $2.1 million settlement for securities fraud. (Feb-17-05)
- AT&T, MA A $565,000 settlement awared to customers. (Feb-17-05)
- Fiat accepts $2 billion settlement from GM. (Feb-13-05)
- Nichia Corp. give former employee $8 million for inventing blue LED which gave the company a virtual monopoly on the product. (Feb-13-05)
- Abercrombie & Fitch $40 million discrimination settlement (Feb-13-05)
- Incore, Inc. and Architect Firms A $5.7 million settlement for defection construction. (Feb-11-05)
- Lake County Fair Board A $2 million settlement for the death of an 8 year old. (Feb-10-05)
- Nichia Corp. An $8 million settlement awarded for patent of light technology. (Feb-10-05)
- Firestone gives family $7.5 million settlement when driver was left paralyzed after her Ford Explorer overturned. (Feb-10-05)
- State and County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. A $952,000 settlement for fraudulant auto repair claims. (Feb-10-05)
- New York City A $1 million settlement awarded for wrongful conviction. (Feb-10-05)
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Insurers A $159 million settlement awarded to Goodyear. (Feb-10-05)
- Vibo Corporation A mulit-billion dollar settlement. (Feb-10-05)
- Albany Housing Authority employees accused of forging ballots. (Feb-8-05)
- Restaurants A $265,000 settlement for mercury in fish. (Feb-8-05)
- Worldcom $54 million settlement ruled against (Feb-7-05)
- Nicor Inc. A $3.5 million settlement awarded to shareholders. (Jan-31-05)
- New York Life Insurance Co. A $20 million settlement awarded to Armenian descendants. (Jan-31-05)
- B.J. Marchese Auto World A $2.45 million settlement awarded to victims of identity theft. (Jan-31-05)
- Bank One, Bank of America Corp., US Bancorp, and American Honda Finance Corp. A settlement offer awarded to minority cunsumers. (Jan-31-05)
- PharMerica Inc.'s Interstate Pharmacy Corp. A $3.2 million settlement awarded to seniors who purchased recycled drugs. (Jan-31-05)
- Safeway, Vons, Albertsons, and Ralph's A $22.4 million settlement awarded to janitors for unpaid overtime. (Jan-31-05)
- Burger King A $4 million settlement awarded to burned employee. (Jan-31-05)
- Deutsche Telekom A $120 million settlement awarded to shareholders. (Jan-31-05)
- ConAgra Foods Inc. A $14 million settlement awarded to shareholders. (Jan-31-05)
- Alabama Spam Ring A multi-million dollar settlement for illegal spamming. (Jan-29-05)