“The estate of a former police dispatcher will receive $1 million as part of a settlement with the township over alleged racist discrimination he faced within the Wall Police Department. The township will pay $500,000 to the estate of Nicholas Curcio, who spent 22 years as a police dispatcher and was promoted,” reports Mike Davis in Yahoo News.

“The rank of communications supervisor before he charged with official misconduct and placed on unpaid leave. He was eventually acquitted of all charges. The other half of the settlement sum will be covered by the town’s insurance carrier. Curcio, 51, died earlier this year. An obituary and court records did not detail. Who represented Curcio.”

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“Potentially dozens of former students of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet may be compensated after the dance company settled a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit involving a past instructor accused of taking photos of young women and teenage girls for years. The RWB has agreed to a $10-million settlement,” reports Bryce Hoye in CBC.

“The case against it and former instructor and photographer Bruce Monk. An approval hearing is scheduled for next month. It’s been a very long, difficult road for the women who’ve been involved in this case, said lawyer Margaret Waddell of the Waddell Phillips law firm. I think that they all feel a sense of relief, that they’ve reached.”

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“It was among the country’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks: One in every three residents of a New Jersey nursing home for frail military veterans died as the virus raced unchecked through the state-run facility. The 101 residents who died in the first eight months of the pandemic included both,” reports Tracey Tully in The New York Times.

“Regina Costantino Discenza’s parents, who had been living at the complex, Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home in Edison, N.J., for about two years when the virus began ravaging long-term care centers throughout the Northeast. Three days after her father died, her mother tested positive for the virus. Now, in a sober acknowledgment.”

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“WSFS Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WSFS), the parent company of WSFS Bank, announced today that it finalized a settlement to resolve litigation against the counterparty to the 2010 stock purchase agreement by which WSFS purchased Christiana Bank & Trust Company (Christiana Trust),” reports Globe News Wire in their blog.

“WSFS will receive $15 million under the settlement and anticipates a positive earnings per diluted common shares (EPS) impact of approximately $0.23 per share (after-tax) during the fourth quarter of 2021. In the litigation, WSFS sought to enforce an indemnity arising from the stock purchase agreement and recover all remaining amounts.”

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“The agreement, announced Monday by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), marks the end of three years of litigation for Riot, a subsidiary of Chinese multinational entertainment conglomerate Tencent and developer of popular video games League of Legends and,” reports Kyle Brasseur in Compliance Week.

“The company must also retain a third party to conduct a gender equity analysis of employee pay, job assignments, and promotions for three years. The DFEH in October 2018 notified Riot of its investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against female employees and contractors. When the company.”

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“The Canadian government announced Tuesday that it had reached what it called the largest settlement in Canada’s history, paying $31.5 billion to fix the nation’s discriminatory child welfare system and compensate the Indigenous people harmed by it. The agreement in principle forms the basis,” reports Catherine Porter in The New York Times.

“Final settlement of several lawsuits brought by First Nations groups against the Canadian government. Of the overall settlement, 40 billion in Canadian dollars, half will go toward compensating both children who were unnecessarily removed, and their families and caregivers, over the past three decades. The rest of the money.”

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“Capital One Financial Corp. agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that customers filed against the firm after a hacker broke into its cloud-computing systems and stole their personal information. Representatives for those customers, Capital One and Amazon Web Services the lender’s,” reports Jennifer Surrane in Bloomberg.

“Cloud provider jointly asked Judge Anthony Trenga to pause proceedings while the court evaluates the agreement. The settlement will cover 98 million Americans, and Capital One said it is fully reserved for the amount. While Capital One and AWS deny all liability, in the interest of avoiding the time, expense and uncertainty of continued.”

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“Morgan Stanley (MS.N) agreed to pay $60 million to settle a lawsuit by customers who said the Wall Street bank exposed their personal data when it twice failed to properly retire some of its older information technology. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action on behalf of about 15,” reports Jonathan Stempel in Reuters.

“Customers was filed on Friday night in Manhattan federal court, and requires approval by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres. Customers would receive at least two years of fraud insurance coverage, and each can apply for reimbursement of up to $10,000 in out-of-pocket losses. Morgan Stanley denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.”

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“The El Pomar Foundation will spend $3.75 million to purchase ranch land as part of a settlement that will result in the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the nonprofit of violating state law by secretly lobbying members of then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s staff to kill a controversial proposal for a granite,” reports Christopher Osher in The Gazette.

“It’s the second settlement El Pomar has ended up paying over its efforts to block efforts to mine a portion of the Hitch Rack Ranch, located south of Colorado Springs. In 2019, El Pomar paid a confidential $15 million settlement after Chicago-based Transit Mix Concrete alleged that El Pomar’s backdoor lobbying subverted the legal hearing.”

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“A man who blew the whistle on a scheme to double-bill Minnesota police and sheriff departments on their squad cars has settled a lawsuit he brought that claimed Minnesota officials failed to fully hold a former state vendor accountable for overcharges. The civil lawsuit by Steve Kleiber alleged that Nelson,” reports A.J. Lagoe in Kare 11.

“Auto Center of Fergus Falls still owed money to the state and more than 200 law enforcement agencies across Minnesota in the wake of a double billing scandal first exposed more than four years ago by KARE 11. In a statement to KARE 11, Nelson Auto indicated it already repaid all it owed, but made the business decision to settle the case.”

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“A former coroner’s office investigator was awarded $8.4 million on Friday, Dec. 17, in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County in which she said she was forced into early retirement in 2017 in retaliation for raising suspicions about the death of an 8-year-old disabled boy. A Los Angeles,” reports Los Angeles Daily News in their blog.

“Superior Court jury deliberated for less than a day before finding in favor of Denise Bertone, who also is a registered nurse. She was hired in 2002 and for years investigated the deaths of infants and children, according to her lawsuit filed in November 2018. Lawyers for the county denied that Bertone was subjected to retaliation and argued.”

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“A class action lawsuit against Canadian financial services firm Desjardins has provisionally settled for C$201 million after a 2019 data breach exposed the personal information of 10 million customers. A financial management firm based in Levis, Quebec, disclosed the data security incident in,” reports Jessica Haworth in The Daily Swig.

“The breach, which spanned two years, was the result of unauthorized and illegal access to data by a malicious employee, says the firm. Desjardins initially claimed that 2.9 million people were affected, but later revised this figure to 4.2 million. It eventually transpired, however, that 9.7 million were affected. The plaintiffs issued a press.”

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“The ex-governor is threatening to sue the Joint Commission on Public Ethics for ordering him to turn over the proceeds of his $5.1 million coronavirus book deal to state Attorney General Letitia James within 30 days. JCOPE’s order on Tuesday came a month after it revoked its approval last year,” reports Carl Campanile in New York Post.

“Allowing Cuomo to write the book after concluding he violated a pledge not to use staffers and other government resources to prepare it. One commissioner on the ethics board said of the expected litigation. JCOPE commissioner Gary Lavine said discovery material produced in any such court case could lead to more damning details about.”

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“A federal judge overturned a roughly $4.5 billion settlement that legally shielded members of the Sackler family who stand accused of helping fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic, a decision that threatened to upend the bankruptcy reorganization of their company, OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma,” reports Brendan Pierson in Reuters.

“U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in a written opinion on Thursday the New York bankruptcy court that approved the settlement did not have authority to grant the Sacklers the legal protection from future opioid litigation that formed the linchpin of Purdue’s reorganization. Purdue said it would appeal the decision. While the district.”

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“More than 500 female gymnasts who were sexually abused by Larry Nassar, the former national gymnastics team doctor, have agreed to a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. The settlement — one of the largest ever for a sexual abuse case,” reports The Athletic in their blog.

“The funds would compensate girls and women who were abused by Nassar or someone else in the sport. Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman, Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, and seven-time NCAA gold medalist Maggie Nichols are among those who’ve spoken publicly about Nassar exploiting his role as a physician to abuse more.”

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“Ending nearly a decade of litigation, Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have reached a $9.25 million settlement over the layoffs of entire school staffs that disproportionately affected hundreds of Black educators on the South and West sides. About 413 teachers and,” reports Nader Issa in Chicago Sun Times.

“The cases stemmed from several rounds of layoffs at 18 schools from 2012 to 2014 under a so-called turnaround policy which targeted schools that had been put on probation due to substandard test scores and attendance. Many of those schools were in Black communities, and an uneven number of Black educators lost their jobs.”

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“Zoom users in the United States could soon find themselves with a few extra dollars in their pockets, the product of a settlement the video meeting company has agreed to as part of class-action lawsuit. The $85 million lawsuit claimed that Zoom improperly shared users’ personal information and had,” reports Will Katcher in Mass Live

“People who purchased a Zoom subscription between March 30, 2016 and July 30, 2021 can file a claim for $25 or 15% of cost of the subscription, whichever is greater, Yahoo News said. Other people who used the free version of Zoom can receive up to $15. But as with other class-action lawsuits, the money will be divided between eligible.”

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“The Australian computer scientist who claims he invented Bitcoin was told by a U.S. jury to pay $100 million in damages over claims that he cheated a deceased friend over intellectual property for the cryptocurrency. Jurors in Miami federal court took about a week to reach Monday’s verdict, following,” reports Nathan Crooks in Fortune

“The brother of Dave Kleiman, a computer security expert who died in 2013, alleged that the late Florida man worked with Wright to create and mine Bitcoin in its early years. As a result, the plaintiffs claimed the estate was entitled to half of a cache of as many as 1.1 million Bitcoins worth some $57 billion, which are thought to be held.”

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“The city of Columbus, Ohio, announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement to pay $5.75 million to 32 plaintiffs who said that they were injured and that their constitutional rights were violated by members of the city’s police division during social justice protests in the summer of 2020,” reports Jesus Jemenez in The New York Times

“The plaintiffs were among many in Columbus who participated in protests that swept the country. The plaintiffs alleged in a lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio that officers with the Columbus Police Division had used excessive force against them and had violated their constitutional rights.”

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“Thirty-two plaintiffs who say they were brutalized by Columbus police during protests against racial injustice in the summer of 2020 will receive a settlement totaling $5.75 million once the City Council approves the payout. Columbus City Attorney Zach announced the settlement,” reports Eric Lagatta in their The Columbus Dispatch.

“That came after 32 plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit in July 2020 in U.S. District Court in Columbus. The suit named the city of Columbus, former Police Chief Thomas Quinlan, a Columbus police commander, three lieutenants, seven sergeants and 14 officers for injuries the plaintiffs said they suffered while protesting Downtown. Once approved.”

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