LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
SettlementsKentucky Settlements
- Preliminary Settlement Reached in Checkers and Rally's Wage and Hour Class Action Lawsuit (Mar-11-14)
- $7.8 Billion Settlement Approved In BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Class Action Lawsuit (Dec-24-12)
- Anthem Policy Holders Awarded $90M Settlement in Insurance Class Action Lawsuit (Oct-29-12)
- Worker Awarded $9 Million for Workplace Injuries (Nov-25-10)
- Countrywide Class Action Gets Preliminary Approval of Settlement (Dec-24-09)
- Officer Kills Student Bowling Green to pay $1 million settlement in wrongful death lawsuit. (Apr-28-08)
- Whistleblower Retaliation Frankfort to pay $500,000 settlement in employment lawsuit. (Apr-26-08)
- Clean Water Act Lexington-Fayette County agrees to spend $250 million to fix its sanitary and storm sewer systems. (Feb-20-08)
- Fatal Drug Bust City of Louisville awards family a $250,000 wrongful death settlement after a police officer shot a 19-year-old boy. (Feb-18-08)
- Unregistered Loan Officers Nationstar Mortgage LLC pays the Kentucky Office of Financial Institutions a $105,000 payout. (Jan-10-08)
- Campaign Contributions $260,000 settlement reached in election fraud lawsuit. (Jan-7-08)
- Deputy Inspector City pays former state chief deputy inspector $360,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-17-07)
- Asphalt Tests Falsified Gohmann Asphalt and Construction has agreed to pay $8.2 million to settle accusations that the company falsified tests on asphalt samples which resulted in substandard quality services. (Dec-12-07)
- Brain Injury Lawyer awarded $7 million personal injury settlement after being hit by a bus driver under the influence of cocaine. (Dec-4-07)
- Wrongful Termination Campbellsville Water Co. pays former employee $208,000 settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Priest Abuse Archdiocese of Louisville pays $25.7 million settlement to over 200 victims. (Oct-10-07)
- Inappropriate Adoption Social worker awarded $380,000 after being fired for not approving a foster home placement. (Oct-3-07)
- Harrison County, KY Federal discrimination and retaliation lawsuits end with a $30,000 payout. (Sep-24-07)
- Acid Rain and Smog East Kentucky Power Cooperative pays $11.4 million fine. (Sep-21-07)
- Rockwell Corp. $10 million settlement in PCB's contamination lawsuit. (Aug-8-07)
- Frankfort, KY $50,000 settlement in employment discrimination lawsuit. (Aug-6-07)
- East Kentucky Power Cooperative Over $650 million to be spent on upgrades after Clean Air Act violations. (Jul-3-07)
- National Maintenance and Repair of Kentucky, Inc. $250,000 settlement to resolve environmental pollution allegations. (Jun-30-07)
- Stillhouse Mining LLC and Black Mountain Resources Undisclosed settlement in wrongful death coal miner lawsuit. (Jun-22-07)
- Executive Inn $1.5 million settlement in fire damages related lawsuit. (Jun-15-07)
- Knox County, KY $9,000 settlement in teacher negligence lawsuit. (May-30-07)
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky Wage hour dispute ends in a $4.5 million settlement with more than 1,000 affected workers. (May-8-07)
- Kentucky, USA Boxing injuries related lawsuit ends in a $1.2 million settlement. (May-8-07)
- Louisville Police Department $4 million settlement awarded to a man who was freed by DNA evidence after serving seven years in prison. (Feb-16-07)
- Joe Palma Former County Sheriff settles for embezzlement of Kentucky state funds. (Feb-7-07)
- Kentucky $700,000 awarded to a man wrongfully convicted of rape. (Jan-8-07)
- U.S. Bank $275,000 settlement awarded for city tax embezzlement. (Aug-21-06)
- Louisville Metro Government $1.5 million settlement after an 11-year-old boy suffered brain damage while bicycling at the city's Extreme Park. (Feb-24-06)
- J.D. Byrider $7.4 million settlement for selling substandard vehicles at inflated prices. (Feb-3-06)
- Kentucky Lottery. A $2.8 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed.. (Jul-8-04)