Litigation-Business

AnnouncementsA federal judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has granted final approval of a $160 million settlement of overtime claims on behalf of nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants employed by the U.S.

AnnouncementsSun Pharma Ltd today informed the stock exchanges that its two US-based subsidiaries have signed settlement agreements in generic pharmaceuticals pricing antitrust litigation. The two units have

AnnouncementsOn October 15, 2021, Astellas Pharma U.S., Inc., reached an $18 million settlement for alleged False Claims Act violations. The Relator, a former executive of a network of regional drug wholesalers

AnnouncementsIt’s no easy feat to rook securities settlement administrators, whose job, after all, is to make sure that money from settlement funds gets paid out only to investors with legitimate claims. But according to

AnnouncementsNearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers have covered one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline

AnnouncementsGeisinger will pay more than $18 million in civil litigation after it reported claims to Medicare for hospice and home health services over a six-year period that violated Medicare rules and regulations,

AnnouncementsInsurance company UnitedHealth filed a lawsuit against TeamHealth, one of the country’s largest emergency services staffing companies, alleging that the company’s systematic upcoding has led to more than

AnnouncementsA Minnesota company will pay the Utah State Board of Education more than $3.3 million to settle claims stemming from technical issues that plagued the administration of statewide RISE testing

AnnouncementsA case that began with hype that someone had finally cracked the code for delivering free and legal broadcast streaming is ending with a $32 million payment of copyright damages to ABC, CBS, Fox

AnnouncementsThe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider approving a $2.5-million settlement for two families suing over the unauthorized sharing of photos of the Kobe Bryant helicopter

AnnouncementsA class action lawsuit, filed by Illinois resident Anita Harris in August, alleges the brand’s marketing is “misleading because they give people the impression the fruit filling contains a greater relative

AnnouncementsDenver City Council on Monday approved a $1.2 million settlement for an excessive force lawsuit involving three Denver police officers. Malow Mayek sued the city last year, saying officers

AnnouncementsThe Michigan Department of Corrections wants to make sure its officials are taking some lessons ven if they are expensive ones from the many lawsuits filed against the department. Department

AnnouncementsThe city of Atlanta has agreed to pay $19 million to settle a lawsuit from condominium owners seeking relief from annual garbage fees. In a resolution approved by the City Council on Monday,

AnnouncementsMonths before putting one of its units into bankruptcy, Johnson & Johnson offered $4 billion to settle with victims of its talc-based powder — twice the amount it’s now proposing to pay through

AnnouncementsThis morning has seen seismic changes in a number of long-running disputes over chemical contamination claims in the Tennessee Valley and the Tennessee River. The City of Decatur and Morgan County

AnnouncementsA $25 million settlement has been reached between the Broward County School Board and 52 victims of the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida,

AnnouncementsFacebook has agreed to pay penalties totaling more than $14 million under a settlement with the Justice Department over findings that the company’s hiring practices intentionally discriminated against

AnnouncementsTens of millions of dollars are coming to the Finger Lakes to combat the opioid epidemic. The money comes from a settlement with various manufacturers of opioids stemming from a lawsuit in

AnnouncementsThe city of Sacramento quietly paid an $11 million settlement to a family last year one of the largest payouts in city history after an elderly woman and her grandson were hit by a car in a crosswalk.