Litigation-Business

EnergyThe 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

LitigationCapital 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

LitigationMorgan 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

LitigationThe 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

LitigationA 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

LitigationA 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

LitigationA 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

LitigationThe 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

LitigationA 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

EnergyMore 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

EnergyEnding 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

EnergyZoom 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.

EnergyThe 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.

EnergyThe 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

EnergyThirty-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

EnergyChinese social media company Renren Inc.’s $300 million settlement with a group of investors who accused its co-founders of self-dealing was rejected by a New York state judge, sending its U.S. share price

EnergyA company once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked up the price of a life-saving medication by roughly 4,000% after obtaining exclusive rights to

EnergyThe country’s largest provider of telecommunications services to jails and prisons has agreed to end contentious litigation over non-refunded deposits made by its customers. Global Tel*Link Corp. will establish

EnergyOpportunity Financial, an online lender, will refund $1.5 million to more than 4,000 D.C. borrowers, settling a lawsuit that alleged it charged them excessive interest rates, D.C. Attorney General Karl A.

EnergyThe three governmental plaintiffs in St. Louis’ Rams litigation must negotiate over how to split proceeds from the case’s $790 million settlement. St. Louis, St. Louis County and the public entity that owns the Dome