Pennsylvania Settlements

• Employee Discrimination Vanguard Group Inc. agrees to $500,000 racial bias settlement. (Mar-4-08)
• Road Supervisor Nesquehoning Borough pays former employee $47,500 wrongful termination settlement. (Mar-1-08)
• School Misrepresentation Lehigh Valley College agrees to pay $200,000 settlement for violating consumer protection laws. (Feb-20-08)
• Bisexual Teacher Ravenswood City School District pays former employee $41,000 wrongful termination and harassment settlement. (Feb-10-08)
• Lieutenant Racial Discrimination Pennsylvania State Police pays former trooper $67,500 settlement. (Feb-9-08)
• Children and Youth Services $125,000 settlement reached in infant neglect lawsuit. (Feb-9-08)
• Prisoner Abuse Somerset County pays undisclosed settlement for failing to provide adequate securities for inmate assaults. (Feb-7-08)
• Golf Course Taxes Silver Spring Township pays Lettermen Inc. $925,000 financial settlement. (Feb-2-08)
• Store Closing Prizant's flooring company agrees to fill orders or refund customer's money after going out of business without notice. (Jan-16-08)
• Motorcycle Cop Accident Erie police officer awarded $150,000 workers compensation settlement after sustaining serious injuries while on duty. (Jan-14-08)
• Wrongful Imprisonment Man awarded multi million dollar settlement after spending 23 years in prison. (Jan-13-08)
• Golf Pro Mt. Lebanon pays former employee $25,000 age discrimination settlement. (Dec-25-07)
• Flute Player Arrested Felix Wilkins will accept $27,500 to settle a lawsuit that claims the city of Philadelphia wrongfully arrested him for playing his flute on a corner. (Dec-13-07)
• School Business Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School has agreen to pay $800,000 to settle allegations that the school breached a contract with Rodis LLC to manage the school's business affairs. (Dec-13-07)
• Religious Beard Burger King awards former employee $15,800 settlement for religious discrimination and wrongful termination. (Dec-5-07)
• Sheriff-Elect Termination Pittstown pays former police officer $125,000 settlement for wrongful termination. (Dec-5-07)
• Casino Property Tax Foxwoods Casino pays $1.75 million to the city of Philadelphia. (Dec-4-07)
• Public Defender Carbon County pays former employee $525,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-4-07)
• Prohibited Waste North Country Environmental Services pays $100,000 fine for landfill asbestos violations. (Dec-1-07)
• Dog Bite Gregory and Debi Sheffer pay $110,000 settlement after their German shepherd bit a six-year-old girl. (Nov-28-07)
• Tomato Salmonella Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim. (Nov-28-07)
• Sinus Infection Pittsburgh woman wins $3 million medical malpractice verdict. (Nov-27-07)
• Township Manager Former Hilltown Township's manager awarded $20,000 severance settlement. (Nov-18-07)
• Lye Spill Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Norfolk Southern Corp. pay $7.35 million settlement for environmental damages. (Nov-17-07)
• Police Severance Former Police Chief awarded $39,000 severance settlement after being fired for misconduct. (Nov-13-07)
• Alter Boy Abuse Diocese of Scranton pays $3 million to teen aged abuse victim. (Nov-12-07)
• Mercantile Taxes Wilkins Township pays ProCare Pharmacy Direct $950,000 settlement for excessive tax charges. (Nov-4-07)
• Tractor Trailer Truck Accident VanWYK Trucking Inc. and the estates of John Huffman pay wrongful death settlement after a mother and her infant son were killed. (Oct-31-07)
• Police Response Accident Allentown pays injured woman $40,000 settlement after intersection crash. (Oct-29-07)
• Water Contamination Quaker Chemical Corp. pays Orange County Water District $2 million for environmental damages. (Oct-24-07)
• Racial Discrimination American Eagle Wheel pays employee racial bias settlement. (Oct-8-07)
• Fired Police Officer New Sewickley Township pays former employee $15,000 compensation for wrongful termination. (Oct-7-07)
• Mud Slide Family awarded $85,000 after a mud slide damaged their home. (Oct-4-07)
• Workplace Harassment City of York pays employee $130,000 settlement. (Oct-4-07)
• Tuition Billing Dispute Midland Borough School District pays Western Beaver County School District $450,000 settlement. (Oct-2-07)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh $1.25 million settlement in clergy abuse lawsuit. (Sep-19-07)
• PPL Corp. $500,000 settlement in excessive water usage lawsuit. (Sep-19-07)
• Easton, PA $25,000 settlement in police officer wrongful demotion lawsuit. (Sep-5-07)
• Dr. Alejandro Gruneiro, Dr. Asish Mukherjee, and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center $3.5 million settlement in medical negligence lawsuit. (Aug-30-07)
• Homeward Bound Services $249,000 settlement in elder care fraud lawsuit. (Aug-26-07)
• Tobacco Companies $11 million payout to Pennsylvania's tobacco farmers in agricultural rehabilitation case. (Aug-23-07)
• Luzerne County Correctional Facility $150,000 settlement in inmate wrongful death lawsuit. (Aug-21-07)
• Fayette County, PA $75,000 settlement in civil rights violation lawsuit. (Aug-16-07)
• Plymouth, PA $90,000 settlement in excessive force lawsuit. (Jul-25-07)
• Philadelphia, PA Settlement increases faculty pay over four years. (Jul-5-07)
• Pittsburgh Public Schools $390,000 settlement in racial and employment discrimination lawsuit. (Jul-3-07)
• Ivyland Cafe $20 million settlement in personal injury lawsuit. (Jul-2-07)
• PPL Electric Utilities $3.7 million refund to customers in utilities tariff revision suit. (Jun-21-07)
• Stephen and Cynthia Ford $400,000 fine in environmental damage lawsuit. (Jun-21-07)
• SugarHouse Casino $50 million settlement ends property tax assessment dispute. (Jun-14-07)