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- National Guard Sangamon County agrees to $20,000 wrongful arrest settlement. (Feb-13-08)
- Chancellor Authority North Dakota State University agrees to pay former board member $200,000 settlement. (Feb-13-08)
- Elderly Annuities American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. allots $125 million in insurance malpractice refunds. (Feb-13-08)
- Employee Theft Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks. (Feb-13-08)
- Assistant Harassment Public Regulation Commission member David King agrees to $840,000 settlement to former employee. (Feb-13-08)
- Stadium Eminent Domain City of Arlington agrees to $2 million Dallas Cowboys stadium settlement. (Feb-12-08)
- Bad Faith Insurance Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. agrees to $13 million personal automobile liability insurance settlement. (Feb-12-08)
- Industrial Toxins Solutia Inc. agrees to pay $3.6 million EPA settlement. (Feb-12-08)
- Overtaxed Internal Revenue Service pays Alliance Semiconductor Corp. $6.6 million settlement. (Feb-12-08)
- Apparel Overtime Yellow Rat Bastard agrees to $1.4 million wage and hour violations settlement. (Feb-12-08)
- Parish Priest Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese agrees to $170,000 child molestation settlement. (Feb-11-08)
- Car Chase Shooting City of Cleveland pays teenager's family $1 million wrongful death settlement. (Feb-11-08)
- Kamehameha Schools $7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement. (Feb-11-08)
- Radioactive Dust Atlantic Richfield Co. agrees to $27.5 million health and illness settlement. (Feb-11-08)
- Eminent Domain University of Akron pays property owner $443,000 settlement. (Feb-10-08)
- Juniper Ridge Bend City agrees to pay Juniper Ridge Partners a $2.56 million settlement regarding city development. (Feb-10-08)
- Morgan Stanley $750,000 gender discrimination settlement awarded to female broker. (Feb-10-08)
- Retail Overtime McLane Co. Inc. agrees to $1.5 million settlement for misclassifying employees as exempt. (Feb-10-08)
- Bisexual Teacher Ravenswood City School District pays former employee $41,000 wrongful termination and harassment settlement. (Feb-10-08)
- Lieutenant Racial Discrimination Pennsylvania State Police pays former trooper $67,500 settlement. (Feb-9-08)
- School Construction Defects Rego & Youngquist and Breitbach Construction pay Princeton School District $2 million settlement for design and construction errors. (Feb-9-08)
- Children and Youth Services $125,000 settlement reached in infant neglect lawsuit. (Feb-9-08)
- River Basin Atlantic Richfield Co. agrees to $187 million settlement towards superfund cleanup site. (Feb-9-08)
- Hurricane Claims State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. reaches settlement deal with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. (Feb-9-08)
- Dairy Bankruptcy Intesa Sanpaolo SpA agrees to pay Parmalat SpA 310 million-euro settlement. (Feb-8-08)
- Transuranic Waste Department of Energy pays $110,000 penalty for improper shipment screening. (Feb-8-08)
- Loan Write Off Magellan Petroleum Australia Limited agrees to pay the Australian Taxation Office a $13.1 million tax dispute settlement. (Feb-8-08)
- Drug Pricing Merck & Co. agrees to $650 million settlement for fraudulent drug pricing and improper kickbacks of Zocor and Vioxx. (Feb-8-08)
- Dredging Permit South Island Dredging Association and Safe Harbor Sediment Recovery of Savannah pay $494,000 fine for pollution and zone management violations. (Feb-8-08)
- Pension Scheme Sea Containers agrees to additional $69 million settlement. (Feb-8-08)
- Cow Crash Hackettstown Livestock Auction pays $40,000 personal injury settlement after an escaped cow causes a car crash. (Feb-7-08)
- Unsuitable Blood FDA fines Red Cross $4.6 million for distributing tainted blood products. (Feb-7-08)
- State Inmate Abuse New Jersey agrees to pay former inmate $100,000 settlement after being assaulted by two guards. (Feb-7-08)
- DNA Products Agilent Technologies pays undisclosed patent infringement settlement to Invitrogen Corporation. (Feb-7-08)
- Sewage Spill Vista and Carlsbad pay $700,000 environmental settlement after 7.3 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Buena Vista Lagoon. (Feb-7-08)
- Fluorescent Light Disposal US General Services Administration pays $23,000 EPA penalty for recycling waste violations. (Feb-7-08)
- Damaged Billboards Lamar Advertising pays $35,000 settlement after violating permit laws. (Feb-7-08)
- Predatory Practices Blue Hippo agrees to $3 million settlement after selling expensive products to people with poor credit. (Feb-7-08)
- Prisoner Abuse Somerset County pays undisclosed settlement for failing to provide adequate securities for inmate assaults. (Feb-7-08)
- Landfill Washout Weston & Sampson Engineers and Welch Corp. agree to pay town $2.7 million settlement. (Feb-6-08)
- Condo Eminent Domain Maui pays $4.1 million settlement to property owner. (Feb-6-08)
- Domestic Violence Death City of Iva pays $31,500 settlement after police shot an abuse husband to death. (Feb-6-08)
- City Truck Family awarded $7.5 million settlement after accident left son brain damaged. (Feb-6-08)
- Driving Instructor State of California pays four woman a $450,000 settlement after being molested by a DMV employee. (Feb-6-08)
- Right-of-Way City of Hastings pays preacher $1 settlement and $10,000 in legal fees for constitutional right violations. (Feb-6-08)
- Financial Fraud Charleston Southern University agrees to $3.9 million settlement after an economist swindled investors from his university office. (Feb-6-08)
- County Supervisor Oconee County agrees to pay a former employee a $75,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Feb-6-08)
- Mutual Fund Shares Ritchie Multi-Strategy Global Trading and Ritchie Capital Management pay nearly $40 million SEC trading settlement. (Feb-6-08)
- Burst Drain Pipe Town of Smithtown agrees to pay homeowners $260,000 property damage settlement. (Feb-6-08)
- Inmate Medical Negligence Olmsted County awards former inmate $337,000 settlement after failing to get him to a hospital after showing signs of a heart attack. (Feb-6-08)