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PJAX Inc. A $500,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of five female employees of the company. The suit alleged that the woman suffered sexual harassment, and were passed over for truck driving positions and dock worker jobs. (Nov-27-03) Legal Help If you have a simi... - Settlements and Verdicts: Shell, Mobile and Chevron.
A $92.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the city of Santa Monica. The suit alleged that the companies had contaminated five of the city's eleven water wells with a gasoline additive. The companies will also build and maintain a new water treatment facility for the city. (Nov-21-03) [ OUTLOOK NEWS ] Legal Help If you... - Settlements and Verdicts: Cinar Corp.
A $450,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Spanish animation company, BRB International SA. The suit alleged breach of contract regarding a letter of intent Cinar signed in November 1998 indicating the company's intention to purchase all of BRB's shares for the equivalent of $78 million. (Nov-24-03) [ TORONTO STAR ] Legal Help... - Settlements and Verdicts: Francois Navarre.
A $550,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by actress Jennifer Aniston. The suit alleged Navarre of illegally distributing photographs of Anniston sunbathing topless, and charged him with invasion of privacy, trespass and misappropriation of Aniston's name and likeness. (Nov-21-03) [ CNN ] Legal Help If you have a similar proble... - Settlements and Verdicts: Morgan Stanley.
A $50 million settlement has been reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The penalties and restitution will be paid to settle the civil charges alleging that the company failed to disclose to its customers that the firm received payments to promote certain mutual funds. (Nov-17-03) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and woul... - Settlements and Verdicts: The Xerox Corporation Retirement Income Guarantee Plan.
A $239 million settlement has been reached and is pending approval in the lawsuit filed on July 25, 2000, alleging that the plan improperly calculated lump-sum distributions from cash balance retirement accounts, resulting in lower benefits for certain employees who left the company between Jan. 1, 1990, and Dec. 31, 1999. (Nov-17-03) [ BUSINESS WIRE ] ... - Settlements and Verdicts: US Federal Government.
A $350,000 settlement has been reached in the discrimination lawsuit filed by Rhonda Brent. The suit alleged that Brent was singled out for a strip search by Miami airport agents in 1991 based on the fact that she is black. (Nov-10-03) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please cl... - Settlements and Verdicts: The Washington Department of Social and Health Services.
A $4 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of three siblings. The suit was filed after the children were left for two and a half years in an abusive foster home, while state social workers failed to do routine checks or adequately investigate complaints. (Nov-07-03) [ SEATTLE TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a simi... - Settlements and Verdicts: Dayton Power and Light Co.
A $145.5 million settlement has been reached in 11 state and federal lawsuits filed on behalf of investors. The suits alleged that the company mismanaged investments. The settlement could affect 50,000 to 70,000 shareholders who bought company shares during the seven-year period covered by the lawsuits. (Nov-07-03) [ BUSINESS COURIER ] [ EMAIL LAW FIRM... - Settlements and Verdicts: Allianz Insurance Co.
A $47.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. regarding losses suffered in the 1999 recall of Coke products in Belgium. The bottler was required to destroy about 17 million cases of beverages when nearly 250 Belgians were allegedly sickened by Coke beverages. (Oct-03-03) [ ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE ] ... - Settlements and Verdicts: Clackamas County, Oregon.
A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by fired deputy Carl Bell alleging racial discrimination. The suit charged that Bell was fired after complaining about racist comments made by his trainers and colleagues about him and others. (Oct-22-03) [ OREGONIAN ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be co... - Settlements and Verdicts: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
A $10 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Kaiser Permanente. The suit alleged that the department knowingly underpaid them for care of low-income patients by the amount of $14 million between 1996 and 2001. (Oct-26-03) [ DENVER POST ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at... - Ralphs Supermarket The Great Escape promotion
This case has been settled. Please visit our Homepage to view active cases. Ralphs Grocery Company has been accused of failing to disclose important terms and conditions to its customers participating in a promotion in California between June 4 and July 15, 2003, called "The Great Escape." The lawsuit alleges that Ralphs advertised that its Cl... - Settlements and Verdicts: Aerojet-General Corp.
A $10 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by American States Water Co., owner of Arden Cordova Water Service. The suit was filed in 1999 regarding drinking water wells near Aerojet which were contaminated by chemicals from rocket fuel and other pollutants. (Oct-16-03) [ BUSINESS JOURNAL ] [ PRESS RELEASE ] Legal Help If you hav... - Settlements and Verdicts: ChevronTexaco Corp.
A settlement of approximately $278.5 million has been reached in the lawsuit filed by state and federal environmental regulators. The suit alleged that the company's plants located in El Segundo, Richmond, Pascagoula, Kapolei, and Salt Lake City were emitting more pollution than permits allowed, and that "extremely hazardous substances" had been released... - 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: Intrepid of North Carolina Inc.
A $685,000 settlement has been reached in the federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleging Medicaid fraud. The settlement also requires that the company be monitored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a period of five years. (Oct-10-03) [ TRIANGLE BUSINESS JOURNAL ] Legal Help If you have... - Settlements and Verdicts: State of Wisconsin.
A $365,000 settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed by 4 convicted sex offenders who were kept in seclusion under Wisconsin's sexual predator law. The suit claimed that while they were inmates at the Wisconsin Resource Center in Oshkosh, the state illegally subjected the plaintiffs to long periods of isolation for disciplinary reasons altho... - Settlements and Verdicts: Stanislaus County, California.
A $1.9 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the Lopez family in regards to a contaminated water well. The family was notified in 2001 that there was tetra-chloroethene, trichloroethene and dichloroethene in their water, and they were supplied with bottled water. (Oct-04-03) [ MODBEE ] Legal Help If you have a similar prob... - 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...