“JBS announced that it has entered into an agreement to partially settle the In re Beef Antitrust Litigaton. The settlement, which is subject to court approval, agrees to pay the direct purchaser plaintiff class $52.5 million, according to a JBS company spokesperson. The nation’s four largest beef,” reports Jacqui Fatka in Farm Progress.

“Tyson, Cargill, JBS and National Beef were included in an antitrust lawsuit filed in June 2020 for potential cattle market manipulation in a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota by Central Grocers. While JBS does not admit liability for the claims alleged as part of this case, it believes this decision is in the best.”

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“A proposed settlement has been reached in a class-action data breach lawsuit against Excellus Health Plan, affiliate companies, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which would result in millions of dollars in injunctive relief and require the insurer to make numerous improvements to its security program,” reports Jessica Davis in SC Media.

“The class-action lawsuit involves 14 proposed cases that call into question Excellus’ security program, as well as delays with its notification and communication gaps to fully explain risks the incident posed to plan members. The settlement stems from a 2015 breach that impacted 10.5 million people, which Excellus did not discover until 18,”

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“Over $2 million will be paid to the charity established by late artist Robert Indiana through a settlement between Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and the personal representative of the artist’s estate over excessive legal fees. The attorney general sued the representative James Brannan in 2020,” reports Lauren Abbate in Bangor Daily News.

“Claiming he overpaid himself and several law firms during the course of extensive litigation that the estate was battling following Indiana’s death in 2018. On Monday, the attorney general’s office announced that it has reached a resolution of all claims against Brannan and the four firms. Since the sole benefactor of Indiana’s estate,”

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“The cost of settling workplace class-action lawsuits reached a record high in 2021, defying expectations that the COVID-19 pandemic would decrease the size and reduce the number of payouts, according to a new report by the Seyfarth Shaw law firm in Chicago. The plaintiffs’ bar capitalized on,” reports Jim Sams in Insurance Journal.

“A recovering economy and aligned priorities with the new Biden Administration to secure a record financial haul in 2021, stated the author, Seyfarth partner Gerald L. Maatman Jr. As the defense based on arbitration agreements with class action waivers faces increased attacks across the country, employers can look at this past year,”

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“The Environmental Protection Agency and other federal entities, as well as Sunnyside Gold Corp and its parent company Kinross Gold Corp have agreed to drop claims against each other over the responsibility of paying for the cleanup of abandoned mines in southwestern Colorado whose Superfund list,” reports Sebastien Malo in Reuters.

“Under a proposed settlement deal filed in Albuquerque federal court that the Department of Justice announced on Friday, the companies will together pay $40.9 million to the United States and $4 million to Colorado to clean up the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site. The EPA, the departments of the Interior and Agriculture will,”

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“Vail Resorts has extended a $13.1 million offer to settle five wage and labor lawsuits filed in California, a step that could have implications for a similar lawsuit filed in Colorado and for anyone who has worked on mountains owned by Vail Resorts in recent years. The California lawsuits are similar in many,” reports Kelly Duncan in Park Record.

“Ways to a putative or proposed class action lawsuit filed in Colorado District Court back in Dec. of 2020. Both allege that Vail Resorts violated state and federal labor laws in failing to pay reimbursements for equipment, as well as compensation for time staff spent training, in meetings or on meal breaks, getting on the mountain and gearing,”

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“Tennis star Novak Djokovic is considering serving Australia’s government with a lawsuit after he was deported in the interest of public health ahead of the Australian Open. Djokovic, 34, was consulting his legal team about suing the country for $4.4 million, a fee that includes the $2.75 million prize,” reports Jessy O’Neill in New York Post.

“State and tennis officials had granted Djokovic a medical exemption to Australia’s strict COVID-19 vaccination policy because he had recently been infected with the virus, but immigration officials canceled the exemption and revoked his visa when he arrived in Melbourne on Jan. 6, citing public health risks and fears of riling up Aussies,”

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“Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says a major student loan servicer will provide about $45 million in debt relief and restitution to settle the state’s lawsuit that alleged it deceived loan seekers and engaged in unfair practices. It’s part of a national settlement in which Navient, which was spun off,” reports AP News in their blog.

“In a statement Thursday Ferguson said Navient will extend more than $35 million in debt relief, erasing the remaining debt of more than 1,400 people in the state who took out certain private student loans between 2002 and 2014. The average loan was about $25,000 per person. The company will also pay $2.3 million in restitution,”

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“This multimillion-dollar Prince estate valuation and overarching settlement with the IRS came to light in new legal filings, which just recently made their way to a court in the “Raspberry Beret” artist’s native Minnesota. In brief, the IRS disagreement centered on an alleged substantial undervaluation,” reports Dylan Smith in Digital Music News.

“Prince didn’t have a will, a spouse, or any direct descendants at the time of his 2016 passing entitling his only full sibling, 61-year-old singer Tyka Nelson, to a claim in the estate under Minnesota law. Though many individuals subsequently maintained that they were related to Prince (as half-siblings or otherwise), the court ultimately,”

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“A settlement agreement has been reached involving property owners along Lake Manitoba. More than ten years since extensive flooding damaged homes and property, the Manitoba government has been forced to pay $85.5 million dollars in settlement money, including to cottage owner Alice Dent,” reports Abigail Turner in Global News.

“Anyone who owned real or personal property, off the nearby First Nation’s reserve and within a 30 km radius of the lake that was damaged by the 2011 flooding may make a claim for compensation. Those affected have until April 14, 2022 to file a claim. Our main focus on this whole class-action lawsuit was to prove the government was,”

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“New Hanover County was the first of 76 North Carolina counties to file suit four years ago, alongside state Attorney General Josh Stein, against major pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors for their roles in fueling the nationwide opioid crisis. The county has been invested in the opioid,” reports Amy Passaretti in Port City Daily.

“Litigation from the start. Its overdose rate, 39.7 per 100,000 residents, is higher than the state average, which is 28.4 per 100,000 residents. Ninety-three county residents died from overdoses in 2020 alone. re than 3,000 lawsuits from nearly every state were combined into multi-district litigation, which resulted in a $26-billion,”

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“The long-running lawsuit Apple faced over off-the-clock bag searches of its employees in California is almost over. While its final approval hearing won’t take place until July, the tech giant has detailed the terms of the $29.9 million settlement it agreed to and provided claimants (and everyone else) access,” reports Mariella Moon in Yahoo Finance.

“Documents related to the case on its legal website. The list of documents includes everything from the original class action complaint to notices of the settlement to different types of class members. It also includes information on how to get in contact with the settlement administrator. A group Apple employees sued the company in 2013,”

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“Accellion Inc has reached an $8.1 million deal with a proposed nationwide class to end litigation over a breach of its legacy file transfer product, a platform that allowed companies to securely share large or sensitive files, according to settlement papers filed in California federal court. The Palo Alto-based tech,” reports Sara Merken in Reuters.

“Company faced claims that it failed to properly secure sensitive personal information of millions of individuals after hackers exploited a vulnerability in Accellion’s platform, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement, filed by the plaintiffs’ lawyers on Wednesday. The data breach impacted a variety of Accellion clients,”

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“The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) is appealing a judge’s ruling that prevented it from intervening in Activision Blizzard’s $18m settlement to end a sex discrimination lawsuit last year. Activision continues to be under intense scrutiny after California’s DFEH claimed,” reports Katyanna Quach in The Register.

“The gaming giant fostered a frat boy work culture. In a lawsuit filed in July 2021, the department claimed this toxic workplace led to sex-based discrimination, including harassment against female employees. The case runs parallel to other probing and litigation. The US National Labor Relations Board is investigating a complaint made by the,”

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“T. Rowe Price Group Inc. will pay $7 million and add a brokerage window to its 401(k) plan, resolving an 18,000-person class action claiming the plan was filled with expensive, in-house funds, papers filed in Maryland federal court show. The deal carries a total value of $18 million and provides all,” reports Jacklyn Wille in Bloomberg Law.

“Class members with minimum payments of $20 and additional money based on the size of their investments in the 39 T. Rowe Price funds challenged by the lawsuit, the plaintiffs said in a Jan. 7 settlement motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The deal requires T. Rowe Price to add a brokerage window to the plan,”

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“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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