LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
SettlementsAlabama Settlements
- $227M Settlement Final in FedEx Drivers Employment Class Action Lawsuit (May-4-17)
- $70M Award Granted in J&J Talc Powder Cancer Lawsuit (Oct-28-16)
- $7.8 Billion Settlement Approved In BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Class Action Lawsuit (Dec-24-12)
- Settlement Reached with Local Supplier of Chinese Drywall (Apr-26-11)
- Nucor Guilty Of Racially Hostile Work Environment Must Pay $1.2 Million Settlement (Nov-3-09)
- Schools Shorted Tax Funds Madison to pay $3 million settlement in tax lawsuit. (Apr-11-08)
- Rail Car Dumps Load CSX Corp. to pay $491,976 settlement in wildlife lawsuit. (Apr-10-08)
- School Superintendent Fired Great City Schools to pay $75,000 settlement in wrongful termination lawsuit. (Mar-30-08)
- Undetected Sewage Spill Prichard Water Works and Sewer Board spends $17 million on upgrades and testing. (Feb-20-08)
- Alabama Medicaid Dey pays $4.75 million reimbursement settlement to state. (Jan-10-08)
- Quarry Sinkholes Hanson Aggregates Southeast Inc. and Oldcastle Materials Inc. to pay city of Opelika $1.1 million settlement. (Oct-19-07)
- Reverse Discrimination Two white firefighters awarded $132,500 settlement for racial bias. (Oct-19-07)
- Murdered Infant City pays $800,000 settlement after 4-month-old was killed by his family. (Oct-18-07)
- Inmate Wrongful Death Family awarded $1.8 million settlement after inmate died of flesh eating bacteria. (Oct-6-07)
- Stuart Dubose $1.2 million settlement in illegal fee collection suit. (Aug-26-07)
- Baldwin County Sewer Service $100,000 fine in drinking water contamination lawsuit. (Aug-15-07)
- Alabama Department of Transportation $3.5 million settlement in trichloroethylene contamination lawsuit. (Jul-30-07)
- Bishop State Community College $300,000 payout in reverse discrimination employment dispute. (Jul-22-07)
- Pemco Aeroplex Inc. Racial discrimination lawsuit ends in a $390,000 payout. (Jun-7-07)
- Dr. Thomas Richard Martin Jr. Over $105,000 payout in federal healthcare fraud suit. (May-24-07)
- Russell County, AL Gender discrimination suit ends in a four-year contract at $65,000 a year. (May-16-07)
- Alabama, USA $12.5 million payout to settle juvenile abuse lawsuit. (May-7-07)
- Madison County, AL Whistleblower lawsuit ends in out of court settlement of $110,000. (Feb-25-07)
- Tyson Foods Inc. $871,000 racial discrimination settlement awarded to black employees. (Nov-9-06)
- Olin Corp. $3 million settlement offer for mercury pollution on residents' property. (Oct-26-06)
- Mike and Greg Whitaker $100,000 settlement and hog farm improvements for allegedly polluting streams. (Aug-21-06)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham A $3.39 million settlement for misleading health science sponsors. (Apr-19-05)
- University of Alabama A $465,000 settlement for age and gender discrimination. (Mar-5-05)
- Alabama Department of Transportation A $5.5 million settlement for chemical contamination. (Feb-28-05)
- Alabama Spam Ring A multi-million dollar settlement for illegal spamming. (Jan-29-05)
- Exxon Mobil Corporation. (Nov-24-03)