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Settlements

Hewlett-Packard and Bruce Dahlgren Breach of employment agreement settlement. (Jan-10-07)
New Castle County, DE $690,000 settlement for workplace retaliation. (Jan-9-07)
Bowie County, TX $175,000 whistleblower settlement awarded to Juvenile Detention Center employee. (Jan-8-07)
Kentucky $700,000 awarded to a man wrongfully convicted of rape. (Jan-8-07)
Sherwin-Williams Co. and PPG Industries Inc. $39 million antitrust class action settlement for auto refinishing paint. (Jan-8-07)
Royal Caribbean $1 million settlement paid to the estate of a missing honeymooner. (Jan-5-07)
Jackson Hewitt, Inc. $5 million settlement for marketing high cost RALs to low income customers. (Jan-5-07)
Philadelphia, PA $180,000 false arrest settlement. (Jan-5-07)
Indigo Creek Holdings, Inc. $750,000 settlement for failing and refusing to issue the stock certificates. (Jan-4-07)
North Sewickley and Franklin, PA $60,000 settlement awarded to a high school student who was arrested for posting violent rap lyrics online. (Jan-3-07)
Maple Leaf Dairy Inc. $60,000 in fines for two manure spills. (Jan-3-07)
Virginia Pilot Association $350,000 settlement after overcharging fees for guiding Carnival ships. (Jan-3-07)
MetLife Inc. $19 million for bid rigging and price fixing. (Jan-2-07)
Crestwood School District $150,000 age discrimination settlement awarded to a substitute teacher. (Dec-29-06)
Mark and Annette Sheely $300,000 wrongful death settlement after a 4-year-old drowned in a swimming pool. (Dec-29-06)
CEMEX $1.5 million in fines for air pollution violations. (Dec-28-06)
Nashville, TN $100,000 settlement after a father was accidentally shot and killed by a police officer. (Dec-28-06)
Marysville School District $800,000 settlement after a teenager was hit by a school bus. (Dec-28-06)
Entercom Communications $4.25 million payola settlement. (Dec-28-06)
Cardinal Health Inc. $11 million settlement for improper secondary market trading. (Dec-28-06)
British Columbia Provincial Government $325,000 settlement after a forest fire burned 19 buildings and 65 hectares of land. (Dec-19-06)
Whipps Cross Hospital £4 million medical malpractice settlement for a brain damaged delivery. (Dec-19-06)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington $1.3 million priest abuse settlement awarded to 16 victims. (Dec-18-06)
Fayette County Board of Education and Edgar Friedrichs $2.25 million wrongful death settlement after a boy was killed by his elementary school principal. (Dec-18-06)
Catholic Charities and the Diocese of Palm Beach $6.1 million personal injury settlement after a van accident. (Dec-15-06)
San Antonio, TX $250,000 settlement after an elderly couple died in flood waters. (Dec-15-06)
YP Corp. $2 million settlement for tricking businesses into paying monthly charges. (Dec-15-06)
C.R. Bard Inc. $49 million antitrust settlement for conspiring to exclude Rochester Medical. (Dec-14-06)
Wick Constructors, Inc. $2 million construction defect settlement. (Dec-14-06)
District of Columbia $700,000 civil rights settlement for wrongful eviction of Hispanic buildings. (Dec-14-06)
Washington State Department of Transportation and Juliann Odom $9 million wrongful death settlement reached in fiery crash. (Dec-14-06)
German Olympic Sports Union and German Federal Government $2 million settlement awarded to athletes for a systematic doping program. (Dec-14-06)
Prudential Insurance Co. $19 million settlement for contingent commissions paid to brokers. (Dec-13-06)
Rochester, NY $350,000 wrongful death settlement after a 14-year-old was shot for stealing a car. (Dec-12-06)
Chase Bank, Chase Home Finance, and Trilegiant Corp. $14.5 million settlement for offering membership programs and then automatically charging fees after the trial period. (Dec-12-06)
Wells County, IN $125,000 wrongful death settlement after an inmate died of a bacterial infection. (Dec-11-06)
Circuit City Stores Inc. and Martinair Inc. $3.5 million wrongful death settlement awarded to the wife of a plane crash victim. (Dec-11-06)
Berry Electric Contracting Co. $4.1 million settlement paid to an elderly van crash victim. (Dec-11-06)
Brown & Brown Inc. $5.8 million to settle an undisclosed contingent commissions probe. (Dec-11-06)
Trans Bay Steel Corp. $1.4 million human trafficking settlement. (Dec-10-06)
Hewlett-Packard Co. $14.5 million settlement for violating privacy and ethics laws. (Dec-10-06)
Hamilton County, TN $75,000 wrongful death settlement after an arrested person was shot in a patrol car. (Dec-7-06)
Oakland, CA $190,000 settlement awarded to two women groped by a police officer. (Dec-7-06)
Chris Evert $7 million divorce settlement. (Dec-6-06)
Jacksonville, FL $11 million awarded to a car accident victim 11 years after the crash. (Dec-6-06)
American Stock Exchange et al. $46.9 million class action settlement for conspiring to fix pricing of stock option contracts. (Dec-6-06)
Sacred Heart Hospital (Dec-5-06)
Norfolk, VA $335,000 settlement paid to a man who lost his eye after police used excessive force during his arrest. (Dec-5-06)
Markland Manufacturing Inc. $351,429 settlement for unlawful disposal of hazardous waste. (Dec-5-06)
Kellogg, Brown and Root $8 million settlement paid to the United States for over billing. (Dec-5-06)

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