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Morgantown Firefighters' Holiday Back Pay Suit Might End Soon

Categories: Settlements
A lawsuit over holiday back pay between International Firefighters Local 313 and the city of Morgantown will go before the jury on September 16. The lawsuits claim that Morgantown paid the firefighter for 12 hours instead of 24 hours of the shift.…

Groundwater and Air Contamination Costs Mountaire Farms $65M

Categories: Verdicts
Mountaire Farms, the poultry processing plant, proposed a settlement of $65 million without admitting to the culpability over allegation of groundwater or air contamination across Millsboro and Dagsboro town in Sussex County, Delaware. According to…

2015 Gold King Mine Spill: NM To Receive $11M

Categories: Settlements
A 2016 lawsuit filed by the state of New Mexico over the 2015 Gold King Mine spill has reached a settlement, and the state will receive $11 million from Silverton-based Sunnyside Gold Corp., owned by the international mining conglomerate Kinross…

$180M Penalty For Toyota In Clean Air Act Violations

Categories: Verdicts
The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. The lawsuit…

Family Of A Deceased Maryland Football Player Gets $3.5M

Categories: Settlements
The University of Maryland has agreed to pay a settlement of $3.5 million to the parents of a football player who died of heatstroke following a workout in 2018. The settlement was announced in a meeting agenda released by the Maryland Board of…

2018 Woolsey Fire Insurance Claims Settle For $2.2B

Categories: Verdicts
Southern California Edison, the largest subsidiary of Edison International and the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, reached a settlement worth $2.2 billion to resolve insurance claims linked to the 2018 Woolsey…

$205M Birth Injury Verdict Overturned

Categories: General
A $205 million birth injury lawsuit verdict, which is considered to be one of the largest medical malpractice awards in U.S. history was overturned by the Maryland Court of Appeals in the first week of February. The lawsuit was brought by a woman…

Scandies Rose Crab Boat Sinking Disaster Settled For $9M

Categories: Settlements
Last month, a settlement agreement of more than $9 million was reached between the owners of Scandies Rose Fishing Company LLC and two surviving members and the families of four men who died when the company's vessel went down on its route to start…

Tobacco Companies Settle Montana's Lawsuit For $100M

Categories: Settlements
In November, Montana's Attorney General Tim Fox announced that the state's Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement agreement worth $100 million with tobacco companies for wrongfully withholding $3 - $4.5 million from 2006 through the…

Wrongful Pregnancy Lawsuit Results In $10M Settlement

Categories: Settlements
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik awarded $10 million as a settlement to the family of a severely disabled child who was born after a nurse at the Neighbourcare Health Clinic in Seattle gave a flu shot instead of a birth-control injection. According…
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