LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
SettlementsNew York Settlements
- Doctor Termination Massena Memorial Hospital pays $1.5 million unfair termination settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Corrections Discrimination Niagara County Sheriff's Department employee $86,000 wrongful termination and racial bias settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Collapsed Culvert Niagara County pays injured woman $350,000 settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Stun Gun Teenager awarded $50,000 settlement after being tasered ten times by an NYPD officer. (Nov-13-07)
- Court Parking Nassau County pays $50,000 settlement for a parking dispute. (Nov-3-07)
- Arena ADA Madison Square Garden pays fine for ADA violations. (Nov-2-07)
- Nail Salon Employees 167 Nail Plaza pays two employees $225,000 for overtime and employment violations. (Oct-31-07)
- Niagara Falls Parking Lot Urban Renewal Agency and Empire State Development pay $1.65 million eminent domain settlement. (Oct-25-07)
- Officer Retaliation Nassau County must pay $150,000 settlement to corrections officer for retaliation from a previous lawsuit. (Oct-22-07)
- Hispanic Bias B&H Photo and Electronics Corp. pays employees $4.3 million discrimination settlement. (Oct-18-07)
- Contaminated Soil Residents of Buffalo subdivision awarded $7.2 million for hazardous land. (Oct-18-07)
- Lead Paint Poisoning Landlords pay $2.5 million settlement after three children suffered from learning disabilities. (Oct-18-07)
- Welfare Workers Harassment Female supervisor responsible for $440,000 gender bias settlement. (Oct-16-07)
- Facebook Child Protection Online social networking company agrees to safety probe settlement. (Oct-16-07)
- Motorcycle Crash Accident victim awarded $10 million jury verdict for lost arm and injuries. (Oct-5-07)
- Knicks Marketing Senior Vice President awarded $11.6 million settlement for gender discrimination and retaliation. (Oct-3-07)
- Police Training Officer shot in arm with live ammunition awarded $130,000 settlement. (Sep-29-07)
- Principal Retaliation Middletown School District awards Bernard Cohen $425,000 settlement for wrongful termination. (Sep-27-07)
- Lingerie Insider Trading Consultant pays fine for insider trading regarding merger. (Sep-27-07)
- Utica, NY Undisclosed settlement in ski sledding accident case. (Sep-17-07)
- Frank Noto, Gobbler's Knob Sportsman Club Inc., and Vito Cardinale $3.3 million settlement in hunting related personal injury suit. (Sep-16-07)
- KeySpan Corp. $12 million whistleblower lawsuit settled with an undisclosed sum. (Sep-6-07)
- New York, NY $5 million settlement in salt spreader personal injury lawsuit. (Sep-5-07)
- Concourse Housing Corp. $960,000 settlement in shower burn personal injury lawsuit. (Sep-4-07)
- Niagara County, NY $110,000 settlement in racial discrimination lawsuit. (Aug-30-07)
- Necessary Objects $160,000 settlement in labor law violations lawsuit. (Aug-29-07)
- Saratoga County, NY $32,500 settlement in tiger cub scratch lawsuit. (Aug-27-07)
- Hooters $75,000 settlement for employee disability discrimination. (Aug-27-07)
- Fraternal Order of Police $9 million to be spent for 9/11 donation fraud. (Aug-27-07)
- Order of Dominican Fathers and Brothers in New York City $1.2 million settlement in priest sexual abuse lawsuit. (Aug-24-07)
- New York, USA $150,000 settlement in racial discrimination and hostile work environment lawsuit. (Aug-23-07)
- Boston Felt Company Inc. $135,000 settlement in OSHA violations suit. (Aug-23-07)
- Rensselaer County, NY Over $125,000 settlement in retaliation and wrongful termination lawsuit. (Aug-14-07)
- Arrigo and Giuseppe Cipriani $10 million settlement resolves tax evasion charges. (Aug-14-07)
- Marks Dairy Farm $2.2 million settlement in manure spill environmental damage lawsuit. (Aug-11-07)
- Westchester Medical Center Over $333,000 settlement in wrongful termination and defamation suit. (Aug-9-07)
- Healthfirst PHSP and St. Barnabas Community Health Plan $7 million settlement in Medicaid duplicate billing case. (Aug-8-07)
- Long Island, NY $1.25 million settlement in pothole induced personal injury lawsuit. (Aug-6-07)
- Cazenovia, NY $100,000 settlement in whistleblower retaliation lawsuit. (Aug-5-07)
- Nelnet Inc. $2 million settlement in unlawful loan practices lawsuit. (Aug-1-07)
- Hudson Valley Foie Gras $30,000 settlement in environmental violations lawsuit. (Jul-29-07)
- Nassau County, NY Proposed $450,000 settlement in police age discrimination lawsuit. (Jul-28-07)
- Salvatore Cascino $130,000 fine for environmental damage. (Jul-19-07)
- UBS Financial Services Inc. $23.3 million settlement in breach of fiduciary duties and anti-fraud laws violation suit. (Jul-18-07)
- York County, NY and Pleasant Acres Nursing & Rehabilitation Center $150,000 settlement in asbestos related wrongful termination lawsuit. (Jul-15-07)
- Utica, NY Close to $500,000 settlement in lead poisoning suit. (Jul-14-07)
- Absolute Power Fitness Inc. $55,289 refunded to customers after owners unexpectedly shut shop. (Jul-12-07)
- Goshen, NY $9 million refund to resolve over assessed property tax dispute. (Jul-10-07)
- Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl, LLP $7 million payout for breach of fiduciary dues. (Jul-1-07)
- New York, NY $12.75 million settlement in lead poisoning lawsuit. (Jul-1-07)