Indiana lawmakers presented their decision to offer an additional $6 million to victims of a deadly stage collapse at last year’s state fair as a way to help those who weren’t adequately compensated by its first settlement. But buried in …
A small East Texas town and the county where it’s situated will implement procedures aimed at stopping racial profiling to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses former officials of shaking down innocent motorists for cash, according to documents filed …
Los Angeles County will pay nearly $2 million to settle lawsuits over use of force by sheriff’s deputies, including a deadly shooting. City News Service says the Board of Supervisors approved the payouts on Tuesday. A $900,000 settlement was approved …
The Missouri attorney general’s office has reached a deal with some former employees of US Fidelis allowing compensation for being laid off without proper warning. US Fidelis was once a leading seller of vehicle service contracts. The Wentzville, Mo.-based company …
An Australian woman has won a multi-million dollar payout from UK Company Diageo Plc, the local distributor of the drug Thalidomide that caused birth defects in thousand of babies around the world in the 1960s, her lawyers said on Wednesday. …
BP Plc on Thursday agreed to pay $13 million to settle safety violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery, paving the way for a sale of the refinery by the London-based energy company. The settlement struck with the U.S. Occupational …
There’s a settlement in a bitter battle over a Waikiki hotel that had resulted in a takeover and a federal lawsuit. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the owner of The Modern Honolulu hotel will pay the trendy hotel’s former operator, Marriott …
Iowa has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed negligence by University of Iowa hospital employees during a birth that caused a baby to have brain injuries that left him severely retarded, newly released records show. …
Walmart and Target Corporation will pay $232,000 to cities and towns across Massachusetts to settle allegations that the companies allegedly overcharged public agencies for prescription drugs through the workers’ compensation insurance system.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the settlement on …
Apple Inc. has paid $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a dispute over the iPad trademark in China that saw the world’s most valuable technology company engaged in a protracted legal tussle with a near-bankrupt Chinese firm. The …
