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Sort by date 16,390 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Settlements and Verdicts: Circle K store chain and Gurinder Ruby.
An $8 million verdict has been awarded to Arwa Farraj, a former Circle K store clerk from California. Farraj filed the suit against her former boss, alleging that he had cheated her out of a winning lottery ticket worth millions. Ruby tricked her into thinking that the Quick Pick California SuperLotto ticket she had purchased on Christmas Day in 1999 was... - Settlements and Verdicts: Coca-Cola Company.
A $540,000 settlement has been reached in the whistleblower lawsuit filed by former finance manager Matthew Whitley. The suit claimed that Whitley was laid off after he sent a memo detailing allegations of widespread fraud to the company's president. (Oct-12-03) [ SUNDAY TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be co... - Settlements and Verdicts: City of Des Moines, IA.
A $200,000 verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed by 53-year-old Richard Summy. Summy was blinded in one eye when he was hit by a golfball from the city-owned Waveland Golf Course. The suit alleged that the city was responsible because they had not maintained a tree-line barrier between the adjoining first and 18th holes. (Oct-11-03) [ KCCI ] ... - power window
Has your child been injured or killed by the power windows in your car? Since 1990 at least 26 children have been killed when power windows closed on them. Rocker or toggle-type switches can easily be activated by a child who can then be caught in the window and choked to death. Newer, safer switches must be pulled up to raise the window. "Becky Hergatt... - Settlements and Verdicts: Stanford Hospital and Palo Alto Medical Clinic
A $70 million verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of 9-year-old Michael Cook. The suit claimed that the Hospital staff gave Michael a standard blood screening test for metabolic disorders when he was only 4 hours old, however in order to detect disorders, the test should not be given for 24 hours. Michael suffered brain d... - Settlements and Verdicts: Sundstrand
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the families of Garuda Airlines crash victims. The Indonesian airline's domestic flight from Jakarta to Medan, clipped a tree on a mountain ridge and crashed in 1997, killing all 234 on board. The suit claimed that Sundstrand's ground proximity warning system on the plane was faulty. Plaintif... - Settlements and Verdicts: Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
A $3.2 million dollar wrongful death verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the parents of New Mexico State Police officer Damon Talbott, 21, who was killed in an air ambulance helicopter training crash in 2001. The hospital was found to have been negligent in connection with its selection and investigation of Medical Air Transport. (Sep... - Settlements and Verdicts: Jimmy Williams
will receive a $750,000 settlement after he spent 10 years in jail for a rape he didn't commit. (Sep-23-03) [ NEWS 5 ] 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: Microsoft
MSfreePC.com is a website that has been set up to help MIcrosoft customers process claim and receive an "instant settlement" of $100 to purchase computer products, as part of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement Microsoft has agreed to. [ SETTLEMENT WEBSITE] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at... - Settlements and Verdicts: Hewlett-Packard Co.
has won the first trial of almost three dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of consumers. The suits claimed that the company deceived consumers when it sold printers with half-full ink cartridges. The jury found that consumers did not expect the cartridges supplied in new printers to be the same as the replacement cartridges they purchased. (Sep-12-03) [ DE... - Settlements and Verdicts: Nike Inc.
A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in the free-speech lawsuit filed filed in 1998 claiming that the company lied in their public relations campaign refuting accusations of dire workplace conditions in Asian factories. The company claimed that they were truthful in the campaign, and that it was protected by the first amendment of the US constitutio... - Settlements and Verdicts: Hubler Ford Lincoln-Mercury.
Customers who bought or leased vehicles from Hubler Ford between Aug. 1, 1999, and July 1, 2000, and whose signatures on the contracts were allegedly written by someone else, will receive about $5,000 each from Hubler Ford Lincoln-Mercury to settle a lawsuit that alleged their sales contracts were forged to sell them extended warranties. (Nov-09-02) [ EMA... - Settlements and Verdicts: Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation, CO.
A $5 million verdict has been found in the defamation lawsuit filed against the Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of Colorado and its monk, Cuong Kim Le. The suit was filed by sisters Thu Ho and Thi Ho and their father, Ngo Ho, alleging that Le had sexually assaulted the sisters as teenagers, then tried to discredit the family when they complained. (Sep-... - Settlements and Verdicts: Libya.
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the families of 270 people who were killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pam Am jetliner. Under the terms of settlement, a $2.7 billion fund will be established by the Libyan government to compensate the families, who would receive at least $5 million each. The terror attack occurred over Scotla... - Settlements and Verdicts: Microsoft Corp.
A $520.6 million award has been found in the lawsuit filed against Microsoft Corp. by Eolas Technologies. The suit alleged that Microsoft infringed on patents for Eolas' technology that allows the use of plugins and applets in Web browsers. The suit further claimed that Microsoft used the patented technology in order to make Internet Explorer a viable co... - Settlements and Verdicts: Sta-Rite Industries.
A $104 million verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed against Sta-Rite Industries Inc. on behalf of the family of Lorenzo Peterson. On June 17, 2000 a Sta-Rite single-horsepower pump trapped Peterson underwater for several minutes, causing irreversible brain damage. The suit claimed that the pump was unsafe, yet the company made no efforts to modif... - eBay patent infringement settlement.
A $29.5 million verdict has been found against eBay in the patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the Internet auction house by Thomas G. Woolston. Woolston, a Virginia inventor, claimed that the way the company conducts sales of fixed-price merchandise infringed on patents that belong to him. In addition to the monetary settlement, the company will im... - Settlements and Verdicts: Bozeman School District in Montana.
A $160,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against the Bozeman School District in Montana. The suit was filed by the family of Kelly Morgan who was killed in a drunk driving accident following the 2000 homecoming dance. The parents claimed that there was lax supervision on the part of the school, stating that the boy who drove the car, Br... - Settlements and Verdicts: Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill.
Talk to a local DUI attorney right away! A $40,000 settlement has been reached in the discrimination lawsuit filed against Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill. The suit was filed by black former employee Dwight Burch who claimed that he was discriminated against by his manager, a light-skinned black man, because of his dark skin tone. Burch claime... - Settlements and Verdicts: General Electric Co.
A $1.4 million settlement has been reached in the state lawsuit against General Electric Co. claiming that the company had engaged in deceptive practices. New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed the suit in March 2000 claiming that GE had deceived thousands of consumers into buying a new dishwasher when they concealed that recalled models could be...