Massachusetts Settlements

• Price Chopper Employees Get $6.5M Settlement Approved (Mar-7-18)
• $25M Settlement Reached in Abercrombie & Fitch Employment Class Action Lawsuit (Jan-30-18)
• $4M HSBC Settlement Reached in Massachusetts Forced-Place Insurance Lawsuit (Feb-29-16)
• Chantal Charles v. City of Boston and Vivian Leo Verdict for Plaintiff for US$11,000,000 (Oct-29-15)
• Astra Zeneca Proposes Settlement in Nexium Class Action Lawsuit (Oct-9-12)
• Family That Lost their Mother Awarded $20.6 Million (Oct-17-11)
• Employees Reach $7M Settlement over Withheld Tips (Oct-11-11)
• Medical Negligence Resulting in Delayed Cancer Diagnosis Results in $1.8M Award (Mar-21-11)
• $1.1M Settlement in Franklin County Jail Strip Search Suit (Feb-4-11)
• Buzzards Bay Oil Spill Class Action Reaches Preliminary Settlement (Jan-19-11)
• New Car Class Action Settlements with Toyota and CADA (Jan-10-11)
• Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million (Jul-16-10)
• $173M Settlement Reached in Chip Antitrust Suit (Jun-29-10)
• Wal-Mart Agrees Tentative $40 Million Settlement in Wage and Hour Class Action (Dec-2-09)
• Ex Wal-Mart Pharmacist Awarded $2 Million Settlement (Oct-5-09)
• Auction Rate Securities UBS to pay $35 million settlement in financial lawsuit.. (May-8-08)
• Superfund Cleanup Site US agencies to pay $1 million settlement in environmental lawsuit. (May-2-08)
• Overtime Pay Due Quest Diagnostics to pay $688,772 settlement in employment lawsuit. (May-1-08)
• Fire Damages Marina Yacht company to pay undisclosed settlement in insurance lawsuit. (Apr-19-08)
• Clean Air Act Violations Aggregate Industries to pay $587,000 settlement in environmental lawsuit. (Apr-17-08)
• City Employee Harassed City to pay $600,000 settlement in gender bias lawsuit. (Apr-15-08)
• Principal Alters Student's Grades Springfield school committee pays $35,000 settlement in contract buyout. (Mar-31-08)
• Drug Makers Pay Pharmaceutical companies pay $125 million settlement for inflating prices. (Mar-10-08)
• Illegal Courting Fidelity Investments to settle $8 million lawsuit. (Mar-6-08)
• Labor and Delivery Judge awards mother $6 million medical malpractice settlement after baby was born with brain injuries. (Mar-3-08)
• Lead Paint Disclosure Apartment owner pays EPA fine for failing to inform tenants about exposure. (Feb-27-08)
• Excessive Arrest City of Worcester agrees to pay pizza vendor $100,000 settlement after breaking nine bones in his face. (Feb-19-08)
• Music Teacher Town of Brookline agrees to $150,000 settlement after the former employee exploited a freshman student. (Feb-17-08)
• Landfill Washout Weston & Sampson Engineers and Welch Corp. agree to pay town $2.7 million settlement. (Feb-6-08)
• Unauthorized Investments Merrill Lynch & Co. pays city of Springfield $13.9 million securities settlement. (Feb-3-08)
• Sprayground Chlorine Cedardale Inc. pays $20,000 fine for wastewater violations at children's park. (Jan-7-08)
• Tunnel Fares A&M Limousine Service agrees to pay $65,000 settlement for failure to pay commercial turnpike tolls in Boston. (Jan-3-08)
• Retailer Fraud Former Boston Baby president pays $41,000 settlement to employees for back pay and vacation time. (Dec-21-07)
• Tunnel Collapse The family of Milena Del Valle are close to accepting $6 million to resolve a wrongful death suit claiming that Powers Fasteners failed to warn contractors of the consequences of using the wrong glue. (Dec-13-07)
• School House Master City of Lowell awards former high school employee $1 million settlement for gender discrimination. (Dec-4-07)
• Wage Violations Biovest International Inc. pays $300,000 settlement to former employees for failing to pay wages and vacation time. (Dec-3-07)
• Critic Free Speech Massachusetts Department of Education pays MCAS critic $187,000 civil rights settlement. (Nov-20-07)
• Construction Storm Water R.S. Audley, Inc. pays $60,000 EPA fine for violating the Clean Water Act. (Nov-6-07)
• Off-Island Waste Nantucket pays Waste Options $760,000 settlement in contract dispute for shipping construction and demolition waste. (Nov-5-07)
• Tax Overpayments Town of Attleboro pays $200,000 to Emerald Square mall for overcharged taxes. (Oct-29-07)
• Wastewater Overflow City of Holyoke pays $500,000 settlement for property damage. (Oct-21-07)
• Military Munitions Textron Systems Corp. pays $8.75 million for groundwater contamination and clean up. (Oct-2-07)
• Cell Phones Taxes Sprint Nextel Corp. pays $2.375 million settlement to Springfield, MA for license gross receipt taxes. (Sep-30-07)
• Arbella Mutual Insurance Co. $56,000 settlement in insurance law violations lawsuit pending court approval. (Sep-19-07)
• Centennial Senior Center $50,000 settlement in property tax dispute. (Sep-18-07)
• US Government and Northeastern University $3.8 million settlement in helicopter-landing drill related lawsuit. (Sep-15-07)
• Wareham, MA $1.1 million settlement in eminent domain lawsuit. (Sep-4-07)
• Gloucester, MA $70,000 settlement in employment retaliation lawsuit. (Aug-23-07)
• Val Industrial Insulation Co. $32,000 settlement in wage rate violations lawsuit. (Aug-21-07)
• ETHEX Corporation Over $574,998 settlement in drug price inflation lawsuit. (Aug-16-07)