IBM Paid Pa. $33M to Settle Lawsuit over Jobless Benefits Computer Project
“A legal battle against IBM accusing the company of failed performance on a project to upgrade Pennsylvania’s unemployment computer system resulted in a multi-million-dollar settlement in favor of the commonwealth. According to the settlement agreement obtained through a Right,” reports Jan Murphy in Pittsburgh Post Gazatte.
“IBM agreed to pay $33 million to the state Department of Labor & Industry to end the litigation filed in 2017. A department spokeswoman confirmed on Monday the settlement payment has been received. The department filed the lawsuit in Dauphin County Court after it paid IBM $170 million to modernize the system used to process.”