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Feb-19-10 Oklahoma City, OK If the Honda airbag recall has a face, it is that of 18-year-old Ashley Parham, who died in a car accident just four days after graduating from Carl Albert High School in Oklahoma City. On May 27, 2009, Ashley went to pick up her brother from football practice. Guiding her 2001 Honda Accord sedan along the length of the Carl Albert... - $1.25 Billion Settlement Reached with Black Farmers over Discrimination
Washington, DC: A long-standing class action between Black farmers and the US government reached a $1.25 billion settlement agreement Thursday, making history. The Pigford lawsuit was filed in 1997 and alleged that the African American farmers were deliberately excluded from government programs because of racism and treated unfairly with respect to... - Senior Awarded $1.19 Million in Bus Accident Lawsuit
San Francisco, CA: An 89-year old senior who was thrown from his seat on a bus when the vehicle hit a tree burl, has been awarded a settlement of $1,189,782.58. Edwin M. Wilson sustained injuries to his right femur on July 22, 2007, as a result of the accident, and subsequently underwent open reduction-internal fixation surgery with hardware. In... - Settlement Proposed in Spansion WARN Act Class Action
San Franscico, CA: A proposed class action settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought on behalf of former employees of Spansion Inc. whose employment was terminated on or around February 23, 2009. The settlement resolves claims that Spansion violated the California and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts ("WARN" Act) by failing... - Jury Awards $25 Million to in Man in Accutane Lawsuit
Atlantic City, NJ: A $25 million settlement has been awarded by a jury to 38-year old Andrew McCarrell of Moody, Atlanta, in a lawsuit he brought against Hoffmann-La Roche Inc, the makers of Accutane. McCarrell allegedly took the acne drug when he was in his 20s, and subsequently underwent the removal of his colon. He claims that the pharmaceutical comp... - $4.1 Million Settlement Awarded in False Imprisonment Lawsuit
Larimer County, CO : Tim Masters has won his lawsuit against alleging false imprisonment, with a settlement agreement of $4.1 million, CNN.com reported today. Masters was imprisoned in 1999 on a murder charge, for which he is now exonerated. He was just 15 years old when police in Fort Collins started their investigation on him and his supposed role i... - NovaGold Agrees $28 Million Settlement in Securities Class Action
New York, NY: NovaGold Resources Inc. ("NovaGold") has agreed to a C$28 million cash settlement of the class action lawsuit arising from allegations that investors were misled about the economic feasibility of NovaGold's largest mining project, Galore Creek. The New Orleans Employees' Retirement System is the Lead Plaintiff in the lawsuit. The com... - Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit
Ventura County, CA: Maria Arellano has been awarded a $7.75 million settlement by the jury who heard her case against the Fillmore Convalescent Center. The suit alleged that the 71-year old woman was abused during her time at the nursing home. Due to a prior stroke she was unable to speak or walk. Evidence in the form of film clearly showed an empl... - Worker Awarded $1.7 Million in Crane Accident
Texas City, TX: A 64-year old Texas construction worker has been awarded a $1.7 million settlement by a jury, in his workplace safety lawsuit against Maxim Crane Works LP. The decision has yet to be approved by a judge. The lawsuit alleges that in 2005, Ernesto Tamez, then 59, attached an oil burner to the boom of the crane while working for a turnaro... - 26,000 Seroquel Lawsuits and Counting
Feb-14-10 Washington, DE No fewer than 26,000 lawsuits against Seroquel manufacturer AstraZeneca are percolating through the legal system and awaiting due process, prompting Stephen Saltzburg, a law professor at George Washington University, to quip, "I wish there was a magic wand that could be waved to settle all Seroquel cases instantly. Such a wand does not e... - Correctional Facility Pays $10.5M Settlement for Wrongful Death
Ashland, TN: A wrongful death suit brought against the city of Philadelphia, Chad Youth Enhancement Services Inc., and its parent company, Universal Health Services Inc, by the Paulette Dolby, the administratrix of the estate of Omega "Manny" Leach, has been settled for $10,500,000. The suit alleged that the death of 17-year old Leach in June 2007 was... - Four Employers Cited for Massachusetts Labor Law Violations
Feb-11-10 Boston, MA Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley—a Democrat who recently lost her bid to save the late Ted Kennedy's seat for her party—issued a statement on February 1 that outlined various Massachusetts employment law violations alleged against four Massachusetts meal delivery companies. The allegations centered on the misclassifi... - $10,200,000 Settlement in Medical Malpractice Suit
Washington, DC: The family of a nine-year old boy has settled with a hospital and radiologist which they alleged were negligent in detecting an arterio venous malformation in the boy's spinal canal, and which subsequently ruptured resulting in the boy becoming paraplegic. Apparently, the boy was in hospital for a birthmark on his upper left back. The... - Certainteed Organic Roofing Shingles Class Action Reaches Potential Settlement
CertainTeed Corporation and Counsel for the Plaintiffs in In re: CertainTeed Corporation Roofing Shingles Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1817 (E.D. Pa), announced today that they have entered into an agreement to settle a class action alleging that organic asphalt shingles manufactured by CertainTeed from July 1, 1987 through 2005 are subject... - Worker Awarded $2.4 Million in Worplace Accident Lawsuit
Wilkes-Barre, PA: HVAC technician Robert Smith was recently awarded a $2.4 million in settlement of a lawsuit he brought against the owners of a warehouse he was working in when he injured himself. Mr. Smith fell into the gap between a prefabricated set of stairs and a doorway in a Wilkes-Barre warehouse falling 3.5 feet through a 12-inch gap. ... - Conan Crew Screwed? Some Tonight Show Staffers Not Seeing NBC's "Millions"
Feb-6-10 Los Angeles, CA When NBC told Conan O'Brien that the "Tonight Show" would be moving to a later slot, O'Brien had no choice but to leave the show. It put a lot of people out of work, but NBC says they are paying "millions of dollars to compensate every one of them." Not so, according to one former NBC employee who worked 25 years for the network. A Califo... - $8 Million Settlement Awarded for Construction Site Death and Injuries
Montvale, NJ: A lawsuit stemming from the death of a 21-year old while working for the family business on a construction site, and injuries to his co-workers, has been resolved with the award of an $8 million settlement. The young man was performing site clearance work for the family owned landscaping business, which had been subcontracted to clear... - BP to Pay $100 Million Settlement in Toxic Fumes Lawsuit
Texas City, TX: Ten workers who filed suit against BP North American Inc, over allegations that the oil company had released toxic chemicals into the air around its refinery in Texas City have been awarded $100 million as settlement. The plaintiffs are among dozens of employees who were treated for sore throats and dizziness associated with exposure... - Workers Win $600,000 Settlement in Overtime Lawsuit
Washington, DC: Employees of the Rockville-based Hann & Hann Construction Services have won their overtime lawsuit, with the award of a $600,000 settlement to be paid to current and former workers. According to a report in the Washington Post the construction company will pay "overtime plus 50 percent to every hourly employee who worked for the comp... - Auction Rate Securities
Many investors who put their money in Auction Rate Securities (ARS) did so because they believed that the securities were liquid and that they were a safe investment. However, they are now finding out that their Auction Rate Securities are not liquid and have very little value. Some companies involved in the Auction Rate Securities market are now under i...