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Cook County, IL: (Nov-07-07) The estate of a 5-year-old girl brought charges against Advocate Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, alleging that she was seriously injured when nurses and a third year resident at the facility failed to properly monitor the labor and delivery of twins in January of 2002. The suit claimed that the mother of twins was scheduled for pl... - Visa Antitrust, Visa, MasterCard Inc. pays American Express Co. $2 billion credit card antitrust settlement
New York, NY: (Nov-07-07) American Express Co. brought charges against rival Visa, MasterCard Inc. in 2004, alleging that the company engaged in antitrust practices. The suit was filed against Visa, MasterCard and eight banks that made up their card associations, in US District Court in Manhattan, alleging that the card associations' anti-competitive pract... - Gold Mine, Alpheus Kaplan and Nehemiah Development Company pay $721,000 fine for arsenic clean up costs
San Francisco, CA: (Nov-06-07) The US Environmental Protection agency (EPA) brought charges against Alpheus Kaplan, Nehemiah Development Company, and eleven other parties over clean up costs associated with the Central Eureka Mine, an abandoned gold mine site in Amador County, CA. The suit accused the defendants of moving arsenic-laden waste from previous... - Nurse Pregnancy Discrimination, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan pays employee $180,000 bias settlement
Wailuku, HI: (Nov-06-07) The federal government brought a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, on behalf of a Kaiser nurse who was rejected for a job on Maui in 2005. The suit, filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged that managers at Kaiser's Wailuku clinic withdrew a job offer to Margaret... - Medi-Cal Fraud, Stars Behavioral Health Group pays $1 million settlement after wrongfully charging for treatments it did not perform
San Francisco, CA: (Nov-06-07) The federal government brought a lawsuit against Stars Behavioral Health Group, a statewide chain of mental health centers for adolescents, alleging that the facility wrongly charged Medi-Cal for treatment it did not perform. The suit claimed that Medi-Cal was charged for treatment at a San Leandro clinic on days when the you... - FedEx Drivers, FedEx Corp. pays $253,000 settlement to five employees for unfair labor practices
Chicago, IL: (Nov-06-07) The National Labor Relations Board brought charges against FedEx Corp., alleging that the company had unfair labor practices. The suit was filed on behalf of the Teamsters union, representing five drivers. The lawsuit claimed the company illegally harassed and intimidated drivers and terminated the contracts of four of the five to... - Concrete Price Fixing, Shelby Gravel sets aside $4.7 million fund for customers
Indianapolis, IN: (Nov-06-07) A federal criminal case was brought against Shelby Gravel, a Shelbyville company, alleging that the company engaged in a concrete price fixing scheme. As part of a settlement reached, Shelby Gravel agreed to pay $4.7 million into a fund for central Indiana concrete customers. Sources say that the fund would stand to benefit as... - Online Real Estate, HouseValues Inc. pays fine for misrepresenting the quality of its real estate leads to subscribers
Seattle, WA: (Nov-06-07) The State Attorney General's office brought charges against HouseValues Inc., a Kirkland-based online real estate company, alleging that it misrepresented the quality of its real estate leads to subscribers. The suit claimed that in doing so, the company violated state consumer protection laws. Real estate agents and other customer... - Capsized Boat, TS Hong Kong agrees to pay $1.4 million EPA settlement after releasing 3,100 tonnes of benzene, 85 tonnes of fuel, and 16 tonnes of diesel into the ocean
Taipei, Taiwan: (Nov-06-07) The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) along with government agencies including the Ministry of National Defense, the Department of Health, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Coast Guard Administration, and the Fisheries Agency Council brought charges against TS Hong Kong, registered in Hong Kong,... - Landslide Mitigation, Lexington Insurance agrees to pay Nevada County $2 million insurance settlement
Las Vegas, NV: (Nov-06-07) The Nevada County Board of Supervisors brought charges against Lexington Insurance, after a dispute between Lexington and the county arose when a landslide occurred on the hill above the Cascade Shores sewer treatment plant in May 2005. The suit stated that though Lexington Insurance paid the emergency repairs, it had not agreed... - Game Vendor, Intoxicated Giants fan crashes pickup truck into family and leaves 2-year-old paralyzed
Bergen County, NJ: (Nov-06-07) The family of Antonia Verni of Cliffside Park, brought a lawsuit against Aramark, a beer vendor at the stadium where the Giants football team was playing, after Daniel Lorenzo, an intoxicated Giants fan, lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into the Verni family's Toyota. Records show that the crash left the then 2-... - Patrol Car Crash, Washington State Patrol pays women left with traumatic brain injuries $4 million settlement
Seattle, WA: (Nov-06-07) The family of Julia Terlinchamp brought charges against the Washington State Patrol, after a state trooper plowed his patrol car into Terlinchamp's car, leaving her seriously injured in 2004. The suit stated that the accident occurred a day after Christmas, when the trooper's car came out of a side alley on Capitol Hill, T-boning h... - Freddie Mac Accounting Scandal, Freddie Mac former CEO Leland Brendsel agrees to pay $16.4 million settlement
Washington, DC: (Nov-06-07) The US Government brought charges against Leland Brendsel, Freddie Mac's former CEO, who was ousted in 2003, alleging that he played a vital role in the mortgage finance company's multibillion-dollar accounting scandal. The government's allegations included one that claimed that Brendsel created a corporate culture that allowed... - Legacy Litigation, Progressive Gaming International Corp. agrees to pay $20 million settlement after ten years
Las Vegas, NV: (Nov-06-07) Derek Webb and Prime Table Games brought charges against Progressive Gaming International Corp. in 1997. In a recent development in the decade long suit, sources stated that Progressive Gaming had entered into a settlement agreement with Derek Webb and Prime Table Games concerning all outstanding litigation in the case. A... - Construction Storm Water, R.S. Audley, Inc. pays $60,000 EPA fine for violating the Clean Water Act
Boston, MA: (Nov-05-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against R.S. Audley, Inc., a Bow, NH-based construction company, alleging that it violated on numerous occasions storm water requirements of the federal Clean Water Act. The suit claimed that Audley excavated approximately one million cubic yards of material from a 300 acr... - CEO Severance, Federal Trust Bank pays former CEO James Suskiewich $2.6 million settlement
Orlando, FL: (Nov-05-07) James Suskiewich, longtime CEO of the Federal Trust Bank, reached a settlement with the bank before he was recently dismissed. Sources claim that the Federal Trust Bank has incurred nearly $10 million in losses so far in 2007, but yet reached a deal with its top executive, paying him what they called a staggering amount, considerin... - Asbestos Joint Compounds, Man awarded $3.6 million after forty years of asbestos exposure lead to mesothelioma
San Francisco, CA: (Nov-05-07) Martin Lujan, an 81-year-old man who worked in the San Francisco area, brought a lawsuit against Bondex, Kaiser-Gypsum, Hamilton Materials, and Kelly Moore, all asbestos joint compound companies, alleging that he was exposed to an unreasonable risk of cancer at his workplace. The suit claimed that Lujan had been exposed to asbe... - Medicare Reimbursement, Arizona Heart Hospital pays $5.8 million settlement for violating the False Claims Act regarding medical procedures
Charlotte, NC: (Nov-05-07) The US Department of Justice (DOJ) brought charges against Arizona Heart Hospital, one of the 11 hospitals in which MedCath owns an interest, alleging that the facility violated the federal Civil False Claims Act. The suit primarily dealt with the question of whether certain medical procedures, such as services involving the implan... - Mine Shaft Accident, Families of miners and rescue workers awarded wrongful death settlement after the Crandall Canyon mine shaft imploded
Salt Lake City, UT: (Nov-04-07) The families of six miners and three rescue workers who died in the Crandall Canyon mine brought wrongful death charges against the state of Utah. In a recent development, sources claimed that the parties reached a settlement agreement which stands to benefit the plaintiffs. The suit claimed that Kerry Allred, Don Erickson,... - Fill Material, Six companies agree to $100,000 EPA fine for discharging dredged materials into Chesapeake waters
Chesapeake, VA: (Nov-02-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against six defendants, Sea Bay Development Corp., Beechtree Park, Inc., Green Sea Farms, LLC, Elwood H. Perry, Frank T. Williams' Farms, Inc., and Ferrell's Backhoe Service, Inc., alleging that the defendants discharged and/or controlled and directed the discharge of...