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Sort by date 16,392 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Settlements and Verdicts: Pueblo Country Club.
A $1.5 million verdict has been reached in the age discrimination lawsuit filed by Arcenio "Steve" Garcia, who was the golf course's superintendent. The suit alleged that the club violated the federal age discrimination law in 1998 when they replaced Garcia, then 58, with a 41-year-old man. (Sep-02-04) [ BILLINGS GAZETTE ] Legal Help If you have... - Settlements and Verdicts: Verizon Wireless.
San Diego Superior Court Judge William Pate has approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of failing to disclose billing practices and service restrictions. The suit represented customers of Verizon Wireless on Nov. 2, 2003 and former customers of Verizon Wireless and its predecessors and subsidiaries from Jan. 1, 1991 to... - Settlements and Verdicts: GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
A $2.5 million settlement has been reached with the State of New York. The lawsuit alleged that the company had misrepresented data on prescribing its antidepressant drug Paxil to children. (Aug-28-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to sub... - Settlements and Verdicts: Royal Dutch/Shell.
A settlement has been reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the UK's Financial Services Authority. The company will pay a $120 million fine to the SEC, and another $30 million to the FSA to end the probe into allegations that the company misled the market. (Aug-25-04) [ NEWS FACTOR ] Legal Help If you have a similar proble... - Settlements and Verdicts: Donaldson Co. Inc.
Donaldson Co. Inc. A $15.8 million verdict has been reached in the patent infringement lawsuit filed on behalf of Engineered Products Co. The suit alleged that Donaldson had infringing on Engineered Products' patent of its Filter Minder air restriction indicator. (Aug-09-04) [ BUSINESS JOURNAL ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem an... - Settlements and Verdicts: Eric Robert Rudolph.
A $115 million verdict has been upheld in the lawsuit filed on behalf of Emily Lyons, a nurse who was injured in a 1998 blast at a Birmingham abortion clinic that Rudolph, an accused serial bomber, had caused. (Aug-29-04) [ WAFF ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click th... - Settlements and Verdicts: Parkway Hospital and Leben Home for Adults.
A $7 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of 24 mentally ill residents. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs were coerced into unnecessary prostate operations in 1998. (Aug-12-04) [ QUEENS CHRONICLE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click th... - Settlements and Verdicts: California fertility specialist Dr. Steven Katz.
A $1 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Susan Buchweitz, a California woman who was implanted with the wrong embryos. (Aug-04-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to submit your complaint. ... - Settlements and Verdicts: U.S. Surgical Corp.
A $43.5 million verdict has been reached in the suit filed by Applied Medical Services. The suit alleged that U.S. Surgical had willfully violated Applied Medical's patent on a sealing mechanism for a trocar, a tube that surgeons insert in patients to handle instruments during laparoscopic surgeries. (Jul-31-04) Legal Help If you have a sim... - Microsoft Corp. trademark settlement.
A $20 million settlement has been reached in the dispute with Lindows Inc. in reference to the company's use of the name Lindows. Microsoft claimed that Lindows was infringing on its trademarked Windows brand. (Jul-19-04) [ SAN DIEGO ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please c... - Settlements and Verdicts: The University of California.
A $1.3 million settlement has been reached in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former medical intern David Dixon who alleged that he was dismissed from UCLA's family medicine residency program in 1994 because he is black. (Jul-15-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, plea... - Settlements and Verdicts: Yale University.
Yale University. A $5.5 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed by three Yale radiologists who alleged that the school retaliated against them for criticizing policies they said had "the potential to cause serious harm to patients." (Jul-28-04) [ POST GAZETTE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacte... - Settlements and Verdicts: Yellow Book USA.
Yellow Book USA. A verdict has been reached in the class acton lawsuit filed on behalf of 400 former and current Long Island workers. The suit alleged that the company had illegally deducted several million dollars from the paychecks of employees who sold ads over a six year period. A State Supreme Court Judge ruled in favor of the workers, stating... - Settlements and Verdicts: Bridgestone-Firestone.
A $149 million settlement has been approved in 30 class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of tire owners. The suit was filed in regards to the 2000 recall of 14.4 million Firestone tires amid safety concerns. (Mar-16-04) [ CBS ] [ EMAIL LAW FIRM ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation,... - Spironolactone
Used for congestive heart failure that was supposed to save lives, Spironolactone also caused dozens of deaths from a side effect when doctors began prescribing it more widely. A major study five years ago found that adding spironolactone to the standard treatments cut the death rate by 30 percent in people with serious heart failure. However, whe... - Settlements and Verdicts: East Chicago Judge Lonnie Randolph.
A $4.5 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed by former public defender Tula Kavadias. The suit alleged that Kavadias had been fired because of her race and political affiliation. (Jul-24-04) [ NWI TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link bel... - Settlements and Verdicts: The Boeing Co.
A settlement of up to $72.5 million has been reached in the gender discrimination suit filed in February 2000 by an estimated 29,000 salaried female Boeing employees and female employees who are represented by the International Association of Machinists. The suit alleged that the company had denied the plaintiffs equal pay and other employment opportuniti... - Settlements and Verdicts: Educators Mutual.
A $2.86 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed in regards to allegations of Medicare fraud. The federal suit alleged that the insurance group violated the Medicare Secondary Payer law by making Medicare the primary payer for kidney transplants and dialysis services. (Jul-14-04) [ KSL TV ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem... - Settlements and Verdicts: First American Bank Corp.
A settlement has been reached and is pending approval in a federal discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed in reference to allegations that the bank was engaging in a practice called redlining, where loans and other services were denied in black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Chicago and Kankakee, IL. (Jul-14-04) [ MADISON DAILY LEADER ] ... - Settlements and Verdicts: Blandin Paper Co.
A $2 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of two workers who alleged that the company negligently sprayed them with a caustic chemical used to clean one of its machines. (Jul-16-04) [ THE STATE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link be...