New Jersey Settlements

• Duane Reade Chain store agrees to $200,000 penalty for mispricing and selling expired nonprescription drugs. (Nov-27-07)
• Utilities Whistleblower New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account. (Nov-19-07)
• Principal Tenure Phillipsburg School District awarded former principal $58,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-14-07)
• Detention Center Suicide Union County pays mother of teen aged boy $780,000 wrongful death settlement. (Nov-12-07)
• Game Vendor Intoxicated Giants fan crashes pickup truck into family and leaves 2-year-old paralyzed. (Nov-7-07)
• Trump Property Assessment Atlantic City pays Trump Entertainment Resorts $34 million settlement for overassessing property values at three casinos. (Nov-5-07)
• ADA Violations Upper Township must spend money to upgrade facilities to meet disability standards. (Oct-14-07)
• Inmate Attack New Jersey Department of Corrections pays former inmate $90,000 settlement after being abused by another inmate. (Oct-13-07)
• Lords of Discipline New Jersey State Troopers pay $400,000 settlement for harassing colleagues. (Oct-2-07)
• Wall Township, NJ $145,500 settlement in breach of privacy lawsuit. (Sep-24-07)
• Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $1.2 million payout in toilet collapse personal injury lawsuit. (Sep-24-07)
• Camden County, NJ $7.5 million settlement in illegal strip search lawsuit pending court approval. (Sep-14-07)
• Ocean County College $190,000 settlement in employment malpractice lawsuits. (Sep-4-07)
• Bayonne, NJ $75,000 payout in personal injury lawsuit. (Aug-14-07)
• Seaside Heights and Toms River, NJ $5.7 million settlement in mass murder, wrongful death lawsuits. (Aug-2-07)
• Long Beach Township, NJ $50,000 settlement as compensation in Beach Patrol car accident suit. (Jul-30-07)
• New Jersey Department of Corrections $5 million payout to settle inmate housing costs lawsuit. (Jul-28-07)
• A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts Over $3.3 million settlement in employment civil claim suit. (Jul-27-07)
• Michael Tomko Jr. and Magnesium Elecktron Inc. $1.1 million settlement in accident related personal injury lawsuit. (Jul-18-07)
• Diocese of Metuchen $140,000 settlement in priest abuse lawsuit. (Jul-3-07)
• Public Service Electric and Gas, Locke Stove Co. $8 million settlement in fire related wrongful deaths lawsuit. (Jul-3-07)
• Dr. Sean Nisivoccia Medical fraud lawsuit ends in a $1 million payout. (Jun-23-07)
• JAMM Realty Corp. $1 million fund created to end zoning dispute. (Jun-21-07)
• AAA Central West Jersey, AAA Mid-Atlantic, and Campana Systems $31.25 million settlement in personal injury lawsuit. (Jun-13-07)
• Hilborn-Hamburger Inc. $251,000 settlement for making substandard federal insignia. (Jun-3-07)
• Bethlehem Area School District Settlement to aid school through mold crisis. (May-30-07)
• New Jersey, USA $1 million settlement in officers' wrongful death lawsuit. (May-28-07)
• Camden County Jail $4 million settlement for inmate's wrongful death lawsuit. (May-17-07)
• Bridgeton, NJ Over $25,000 settlement in police misconduct, racial discrimination suit. (May-14-07)
• Manalapan, NJ $275,000 settlement in racial discrimination lawsuit. (May-7-07)
• Chevron $1 million in oil spill suit to be used to reestablish ecosystem. (Apr-30-07)
• Atlantic City, NJ Mayor gets $125,000 compensation for facing retaliation. (Apr-24-07)
• Atlantic City, NJ Police officer gets $2.3 million compensation for being wrongly accused of homicide. (Apr-24-07)
• Tropicana Casino & Resort Parking garage collapse leads to a $101 million settlement with 40 workers. (Apr-16-07)
• Newark, NJ $3.6 million compensation to resolve claims in personal injury lawsuits. (Apr-9-07)
• Manalapan, NJ $275,000 settlement awarded to three African-American youths for discrimination. (Apr-9-07)
• Warren County Landfill Department of Environmental Protection fines landfill over odor emissions. (Apr-3-07)
• US Nursing Corp. $235,000 fine for personal services regulations violation. (Mar-27-07)
• Teaneck Township and Fire Department African American firefighter awarded $538,000 for racial discrimination. (Mar-27-07)
• Raritan Bay Medical Center $7.5 million to settle federal Medicare fraud allegations. (Mar-19-07)
• Bayonne, NJ $405,000 disability settlement awarded after car crash. (Feb-27-07)
• Legion Insurance Co. et al. $300,000 settlement for failing to pay insurance claims. (Jan-18-07)
• PSEG Fossil $6 million civil penalty for violations of the Clean Air Act. (Dec-1-06)
• New Jersey $7.5 million settlement for a foster care death. (Nov-14-06)
• New Jersey School Board $330,000 settlement awarded to a former student who has relations with the school guidance counselor. (Nov-6-06)
• Floor Superstores $343,000 settlement for false promises and denied refunds. (Sep-28-06)
• Seaside Park, NJ $450,000 police brutality settlement. (Sep-22-06)
• NVE Pharmaceuticals $260,000 settlement for false advertising of Stacker-2. (Aug-16-06)
• Passaic County Judge Randolph Subryan $300,000 settlement awarded to a female judicial clerk alleging gender harassment. (Mar-7-06)
• BP Products North America Inc. $315,000 fine paid to the state of New Jersey for raising gas prices over the 2005 Labor Day long weekend. (Jan-17-06)