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Sort by relevance 7,405 pages found matching priest settlement- Partial Victory for Defendant, but VA Hospital Malpractice Lawsuit Can Go Forward
Dec-22-10 Coatesville, PA The defendant won a partial victory, but only a small one in a recent decision by the US District Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The majority of the good news was reserved for the plaintiff in the VA hospital malpractice lawsuit, after the court determined the defendant's motion to dismiss the entire action w... - Preliminary $800,000 Settlement Reached in China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings Securities Class Action
New York, NY: The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has approved the following announcement of a proposed securities class action settlement that, if approved, would benefit certain purchasers of shares of China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. (AMEX:KUN). To all persons who purchased the publicly traded comm... - Madoff Investor Returns $7.2 Billion to Ponzi Victims
Dec-17-10 New York, NY The estate of Jeffrey M. Picower, a philanthropist and investor from Palm Beach, has reached a settlement with the Trustee charged with recovering assets from the Madoff bankruptcy, Irving H. Picard, and the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara that will see a total of $7.2 billion cash made available to compens... - Capital One Settles Bank Fees Class Action
Brooklyn, NY: Settlement of a class action against Capital One Bank has been approved by a federal judge. The suit, filed in 2009 by lead plaintiff Eric Gunther, alleged that Capital One Bank imposed new and increased "miscellaneous account fees" without notifying customers after buying North Fork Bank. Details of the settlement have not been ma... - Crestwood Contaminated Water Lawsuit Reaches $2.8 Million Settlement
Crestwood, IL: A class action lawsuit brought against the south suburb of Crestwood that alleged that the suburb had been secretly pumping contaminated water to households for more than 20 years has reached an approved settlement worth an estimated $2.8 million. As part of the settlement the town's residents will receive $500,000. Free garbage pickup... - Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning: The Difficulty with Diagnosis
Dec-12-10 Oklahoma City, OK For patients suffering from denture cream zinc poisoning , the difficulty might not only be in the pain of denture adhesive zinc poisoning but also in actually getting a diagnosis. That is because it can take a long time between first using a product such as Fixodent denture adhesive and developing the symptoms of zinc poisoning and co... - Thousands of DePuy Lawsuits Expected
Dec-11-10 Toledo, OH Patients stricken with the now-recalled DePuy hip replacement system will be cheered by the announcement that a single judge will oversee all pretrial proceedings with regard to defective DePuy hip lawsuits. Bloomberg News noted December 4 that US District Judge David A Katz has been assigned the task by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict... - Jury Awards $132 Million Settlement in Bus Crash Lawsuit
El Paso, TX: A jury in El Paso has awarded a $132 million settlement to the victims of a bus crash that killed two people and critically injured several others. This is one of the largest jury awards in the nation. The case, pending in state court since 2005, alleged that a Los Paisanos van carrying 11 people had bald tires and no safety belts. T... - Settlement Proposed in Apple Inc Securities Litigation
San Jose, CA: The following notice is being issued pursuant to an order by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division. Proceeding: In re Apple Inc. Securities Litigation, Case No. C-06-5208-JF (N.D. Cal.). This concerns all people or entities that purchased Apple Inc ("Apple") common stock durin... - Semtech Reaches Preliminary $20 Million Securities Class Action Settlement
Washington, DC: A preliminary $20 million settlement has been reached in a securities fraud class action lawsuit against Semtech Corp. ("Semtech" or "Defendant"), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor supplier, pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (styled In re Semtech Corporation Securities Litigation, Clas... - Idaho Whistleblower Lawsuit Settled for $2.425 Million
Dec-8-10 Boise, ID A Qui Tam Whistleblower lawsuit has been settled, with the whistleblower taking home $364,425 as her share of the $2.425 million settlement against two speech therapists and three hospitals in Eastern Idaho. The alleged fraud, which was reported to have involved the use of unlicensed speech therapists for services billed to Medicaid as licens... - Mixed Results in Recent Paxil Lawsuits
Dec-8-10 Philadelphia, PA When it comes to a potential Paxil lawsuit , each case must be judged on its own merits. Although some lawsuits alleging serious Paxil side effects, such as Paxil birth defects, have been settled, others have been dismissed from court. In July 2010, GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Paxil, reportedly settled approximately 800 lawsuits allegi... - Preliminary $8 Million Settlement Reached in Clorox Class Action
Washington, DC: A preliminary settlement has been reached in the class action against Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner (CATBC). If approved in court, the settlement would provide compensation for anyone who "purchased, used, or suffered any property damage from use of CATBC" during the class action period of December 13 2002 and September 15, 20... - $5.5 Million Settlement Reached in Bexar Jail Strip Search Suit
San Antonio, TX: A $5.5 million settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Bexar County Jail over illegal strip searches. Filed in 2005, the suit alleged that the county's policy "to force those charged with minor crimes to undergo the indignities of a strip search upon detention is not only clearly illegal, but is insensitiv... - Wrongful Death Suit Against Chewing Tobacco Company Reaches $5 Million Settlement
New York, NY: The family of a man who died of mouth cancer allegedly caused by chewing tobacco has been awarded a $5 million settlement. US Smokeless Tobacco Co, the maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco, has agreed to the settlement, in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death lawsuit against chewing tobacco. Bobby Hill o... - $38 Million Settlement Reached in Huron Securities Class Action
Chicago, IL: Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN), a provider of business consulting services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement in principle with the lead plaintiffs in the pending securities class action lawsuit related to the restatement of its financial statements in 2009. The agreement in principle provides that the set... - French Court Finds Continental Airlines and Mechanic Guilty In 2000 Concord Crash
Dec-6-10 Paris, France Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics have been found guilty of involuntary homicide relating to their roles in the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000. The plane crash, which killed all 109 passengers and crew members and four people on the ground, helped bring to an end the era of commercial supersonic passenger travel. ... - Skilled Healthcare Nursing Homes Class Action Settled for $62.8 Million
Los Angeles,CA: A $62.8 million settlement has been approved by the Humboldt Superior Court in the class action lawsuit against Skilled Healthcare Nursing Homes. The suit alleged that the company filed to provide sufficient staffing levels for its patients at all 22 of its facilities. Up to $26 million of the settlement is expected to go to indivi... - Paxil Birth Defect Trial Tossed Out of Court
Dec-1-10 Summerville, SC It was a heartbreaking end to a Paxil birth defects trial in Philadelphia, after a judge ended the proceedings at about the midway point, finding for GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), the defendant. The lawsuit, the first Paxil trial to be undertaken since Glaxo agreed in July to settle 800 cases by paying out more than $1 billion, attempted to... - Woman Awarded $5.6M for Fall in McDonald's
Maui, HW: A woman who fractured her spine after fallling at a McDonald's restaurant in Kahului has been awarded a $5.6 million settlement by the jury hearing her case. In November 2007,Beverly Munguia, then 57, slipped and fell, resulting in a burst compression fracture of the L1 vertebra. She underwent a lumbar fusion, but claimed she was left...