Flagstaff has agreed to a $225,000 settlement for the family of a 78-year-old Arizona man killed by police as he held his son at bay with a shotgun. Kenneth Mitchell was holding the gun to his son’s head after the …
Attorneys for thousands of Gulf Coast property owners urged a federal judge in New Orleans to give his final approval to a proposed class-action settlement that calls for a Chinese drywall manufacturer to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to …
San Diego in Southern California will pay $675,000 to a woman who claimed she was groped by a former police officer. U-T San Diego reported the City Council approved the payment on Tuesday. The woman claimed Anthony Arevalos touched her …
An attorney says Los Angeles County’s transit agency has paid $3.5 million to a California woman whose foot was crushed by a bus. Jenny Lopez sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority after she stepped into a crosswalk in 2010 and a …
The former superintendent of an agency that provides services to schools in the central Willamette Valley will get $200,000 to settle a suit over her firing. The Salem Statesman Journal reported that Maureen Casey was dismissed in 2009 after internal …
The Billings school district in Montana and its insurance carrier have agreed to pay nearly $91,000 to the family of a former Billings Senior High student who committed suicide in February 2010 after a former teacher was charged with raping …
Attorney General Chris Koster announced he has reached a settlement with Innovative Wealth Builders Inc., requiring the Florida business to pay $36,000 in penalties and to abide by Missouri telemarketing laws. Koster filed a lawsuit against the business last March, …
AIG Insurance Co. will pay an estimated $25 to $30 million owed to California beneficiaries of life insurance policies, and an $11 million settlement payment. California Controller John Chiang began auditing AIG’s insurance company practices in 2008, revealing an industry-wide …
A former Minnesota police officer who accused other law enforcement of illegally accessing her driver’s license information to see her photo has reached tentative settlements with St. Paul and other cities worth $665,000. Anne Marie Rasmusson, 38, alleged that 144 …
The Louisiana Supreme Court has relieved the state’s property insurer of last resort of the burden of paying a $125,000 penalty for late payment of a claim settlement stemming from Hurricane Gustav in 2008. Instead, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. …
