LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
SettlementsWashington Settlements
- $1.15M Settlement Reached in Mandatory Poster Agency Consumer Fraud Lawsuit (Mar-10-16)
- Wheelchairs Plus Settles Fraud Allegations for $2.7M (Mar-9-16)
- AT&T Settles Collect Calls Class Action for $45M (Feb-4-13)
- Sprint Agrees Tentative $5.5M Settlement in Automated Phone Calls Class Action (Jul-19-11)
- Family of Surgeon Killed in Bicycle Crash Awarded $13 Million (Jun-13-11)
- Woodcarver's Family Awarded $1.5 Million (May-5-11)
- Jury Awards $600.000 in DSHS Civil Suit (Mar-10-11)
- Premera Blue Cross Reaches $1.45M Settlement in Overtime Class Action (Mar-8-11)
- WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan Partial Preliminary Settlement (Sep-24-10)
- WaMu Mutual Stock Class Action Settlement Proposed (Sep-7-10)
- Zumiez Overtime Settlement Increased to $2.1M (Sep-7-10)
- $173M Settlement Reached in Chip Antitrust Suit (Jun-29-10)
- Workers Win $600,000 Settlement in Overtime Lawsuit (Feb-2-10)
- Vitamin Price Fixing Suit Preliminary $25 Million Settlement Reached (Dec-14-09)
- Computer Spyware Act Spammer to pay $100,000 settlement in email fraud lawsuit. (May-22-08)
- Inmate Health Benton County to pay $45,000 settlement in incarceration lawsuit. (May-21-08)
- City Management Sequim agrees to pay $152,318 settlement in employment lawsuit. (May-16-08)
- Energy Crisis California power companies to pay $11.8 million settlement in utility lawsuit. (May-14-08)
- Nuclear Waste Spill CH2M Hill pays $500,000 settlement in Hanford lawsuit. (Apr-25-08)
- Money For Nothing Mortgage rescue company to pay over $980,000 settlement in fraud lawsuit. (Apr-23-08)
- Utility Power Exchange Bonneville Power to pay $2 million settlement in energy lawsuit. (Apr-17-08)
- Search Engine Optimization Claims Web based company pays over $150,000 settlement in Internet lawsuit. (Apr-9-08)
- Teacher Admits Student Molestation Seattle Schools to pay $3 million settlement in students' lawsuit. (Apr-8-08)
- False Gas Pipeline Inspections Puget Sound Energy to pay $1.25 million settlement in maintenance records lawsuit. (Apr-5-08)
- Government Discrimination Washington to pay $700,000 settlement in racial employment lawsuit. (Apr-4-08)
- Street Light Collapse Aberdeen, State of WA to pay $450,000 settlement in storm accident lawsuit. (Apr-3-08)
- Political Support Fallout Island County to pay $300,000 settlement in wrongful termination lawsuit. (Mar-31-08)
- Nursing Student Harassed Bates College pays $105,000 settlement in discrimination lawsuit. (Mar-26-08)
- Police Gender Bias Chelan County to pay $145,000 settlement in discrimination lawsuit. (Mar-22-08)
- Homeowner's Rights Lowe's developer to pay $87,500 settlement in land use lawsuit. (Mar-21-08)
- Racially Motivated Shooting Washington State to pay $2.25 million settlement to attack victims. (Mar-17-08)
- Website Sales Online store owner pays $66,000 settlement to Attorney General. (Mar-16-08)
- Slow Burn Kimberly Clark to pay $165,000 settlement in pollution lawsuit. (Mar-16-08)
- Jail Gaurd Harassed Yakima County to pay ex-gaurd $200,000 harassment settlement. (Mar-6-08)
- Catheterized Arrest State of Washington pays $15,000 settlement after forcing a man to screen for intoxicants. (Mar-5-08)
- Fire Chief Whistleblower City of DuPont agrees to $72,000 resignation and severance settlement. (Mar-4-08)
- Smelter Contamination Asarco LLC agrees to $38 million copper mine pollution settlement. (Feb-25-08)
- Housing Inmates City of Renton pays Yakima County $1.7 million settlement. (Feb-16-08)
- Pathology Lab Stevens Hospital pays Cytolab Pathology Services $1.35 million breach of contract settlement. (Jan-25-08)
- Chlorine Release Pioneer Americas pays $75,000 fine for environmental violations. (Jan-23-08)
- Taser Misconduct City of Lakewood pays epileptic man $90,000 personal injury settlement after refusing medical treatment and resisting police aid. (Jan-23-08)
- Hospital Employee Othello Community Hospital pay $80,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Jan-17-08)
- Faculty Discrimination Mars Hill Graduate School of Seattle awards former employee $300,000 discrimination and harassment settlement. (Jan-17-08)
- Priest Abuse Catholic Diocese of Yakima pays $200,000 settlement to four abuse victims. (Jan-9-08)
- False Allegations City of Wenatchee agrees to pay former pastor $700,000 settlement after falsely arresting him in association with child molestation. (Dec-27-07)
- Sewage Treatment Plant King County agrees to pay Snohomish County $70 million to deal with the impact of wastewater pipelines. (Dec-4-07)
- Assault and Arrest City of Seattle agrees to pay man $185,00 settlement for excessive police force. (Nov-26-07)
- Landfill Leachate US Department of Energy and Washington Closure Hanford, LLC pay $285,000 superfund settlement. (Nov-21-07)
- Light-Rail Pollution Sound Transit agrees to pay $120,000 fine for water pollution from a construction project. (Nov-20-07)
- Clerk Discrimination University Place pays former city employee $40,000 racial bias settlement. (Nov-19-07)