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It's been more than two decades since Purdue Pharma released its patented pain medication OxyContin to an unsuspecting public. Since then, more than 500,000 people have died in the United [...]

The videoconferencing company said it would pay $85 million to settle the suit, which claimed that it violated users' privacy, in part by allowing hackers to interrupt online meetings. Zoom [...]

In summary, a settlement agreement is a legally binding agreement between an employee and employer. They usually include a severance payment (also known as an ex gratia payment or termination [...]

ASIC and Rio Tinto Limited (Rio Tinto) recently reached a settlement regarding an alleged continuous disclosure breach by Rio Tinto in relation to its Mozambique coal assets following the company's [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella and Gina Harkins The Boy Scouts of America reached an $850 million settlement Thursday with tens of thousands of people who say they were sexually abused when [...]

ECONOMY Bumpy Global RecoveryIs Likely, Group Warns The global economy is entering a new stage of the recovery from the pandemic, in which policymakers must prepare for ''different but no [...]

The settlement agreement came just days before opening arguments in a sweeping trial of several defendants, including the company. Johnson & Johnson will pay New York State more than $230 [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, has agreed to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit over the helicopter crash that killed the former NBA star and their teenage [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel Vanessa Bryant has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the pilot and helicopter company involved in the deaths of her husband, NBA Hall of Famer Kobe [...]

Byline: Mike Freeman, Columnist, USA TODAY Chris Seeger is eating lunch on an outside patio, and it's a hot day. He's smiling, talkative and friendly, the heat failing to slow [...]

Byline: Teo Armus Just six months after she lost her job last March at a Northern Virginia restaurant, Amber Dimmerling's unemployment benefits vanished. Even as the 40-year-old single mother continued [...]

As the Federal Trade Commission noted in its recent press release announcing its settlement with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), a leading provider of business credit reports, 'The FTC is committed [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to pay $44 million to resolve a long-standing lawsuit brought by former employees who alleged that their jobs were [...]

Byline: Brittany Renee Mayes A federal judge Thursday approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Urban League and a coalition of [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo Maryland corrections officials plan to begin vaccinating detainees inside the Chesapeake Detention Facility as part of a court settlement reached in a federal lawsuit that alleged a [...]

Byline: Darryl Fears Even with the stomach cramps, nausea and hurried trips to the bathroom several times a day, Gary Cuppels never suspected his tap water. He kept drinking it, [...]

The settlement between LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation ensures that a battery plant in Georgia will go forward without hampering electric vehicle production. Two South Korean manufacturers of electric [...]

Byline: Steven Mufson Two South Korean industrial giants have reached a last-minute, $1.8 billion global settlement of a trade secrets case that will allow a pair of new plants in [...]

Byline: Megan Guza Apr. 9Dannielle Brown, the mother of a Duquesne University student who plummeted to his death from a dorm room window, has settled her claims against the university, [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson The University of Southern California has agreed to an $852 million settlement to resolve lawsuits from hundreds of women alleging that the university failed to respond adequately [...]

Byline: Grace Hauck, Eric Ferkenhoff, and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS - Two jurors seated last week in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were excused [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - The judge overseeing the criminal trial related to George Floyd's death on Wednesday dismissed two jurors already seated in the case after they told the [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield In a bid to resolve thousands of lawsuits stemming from the opioid epidemic, the Sackler family pledged to contribute $1.5 billion more than previously promised, roughly $4.3 [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey and Toluse Olorunnipa MINNEAPOLIS - The city of Minneapolis will pay a record $27 million to the family of George Floyd to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit related [...]

Byline: Douglas MacMillan and Kevin Schaul Steven Collis led one of the nation's largest drug distributors through the deadliest years of the opioid epidemic, when pain pills poured through its [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt The Boy Scouts of America released a bankruptcy reorganization plan late Monday calling for local councils to contribute at least $300 million to a trust to settle [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE, STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- Lead Dominic Barton, who led McKinsey & Co. for nine years before becoming Canada's ambassador to China, says he was unaware of the [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard and Nicki Jhabvala WASHINGTON - Former Washington Football Team cheerleaders who appeared in lewd videos that team employees secretly produced from outtakes of 2008 and 2010 swimsuit [...]

Byline: Peter Whoriskey and Christopher Rowland McKinsey & Company, one of the world's largest business consulting firms, has agreed to pay $573.9 million in a settlement with 47 states regarding [...]

On September 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it reached a $17 million settlement with BAYADA, a Moorestown, New Jersey-based home-health company, and certain of its [...]

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has pledged to bring a renewed focus to robust enforcement of the federal securities laws. As we observed in a recent blog post, [...]

New Development On 9 August 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority ('Authority') announced on its official website that its investigation against Türk Philips Ticaret A.?. ('Philips Turkey'), Dünya D?? Ticaret Ltd. [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo and Rick Maese Nearly two and a half years after the University of Maryland vowed to accept 'legal and moral responsibility' for the death of Jordan McNair, [...]

Byline: Rick Maese and Emily Giambalvo The University of Maryland agreed to $3.5 million settlement with the family of Jordan McNair, the 19-year-old football player who died in June 2018 [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead The British union representing Toronto Wolfpack players and staff says it hopes to get them their unpaid wages by March. The Wolfpack personnel have gone [...]

Byline: NEIL DAVIDSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead The British union representing former Toronto Wolfpack players says it is close to a settlement in excess of US$1-million with majority owner David [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS WATERLOO, ONT. -- Lead WATERLOO, ONT. OpenText Corp. says it has reached a deal with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to settle a US$830-million claim related [...]

Byline: Michelle Boorstein WASHINGTON - The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington settled a lawsuit with the District of Columbia over the city's coronavirus attendance restrictions on houses of worship, Attorney General [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller A company long accused of preying on undocumented immigrants has agreed to pay $425,000 to settle an investigation by a Virginia agency that also imposed severe [...]

MoviePass, a movie subscription service, has agreed to a proposed settlement with the FTC over alleged deception and lack of security allegations. The now-defunct company not only allegedly marketed its [...]

In Austin Trust Co. v. Houren, beneficiaries of a trust executed a family settlement agreement with the trustee and the former trustee's estate. No. 14-19-00387-CV, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 1955 [...]

While cases of COVID-19 continue to pop up around Australia, it was great to be able to speak at two conferences in the past month where both I and the [...]

A firm settled NYSE Arca charges for failing to maintain sufficient erroneous order controls and related written supervisory procedures ('WSPs'). In a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent, NYSE Arca [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti Los Angeles County agreed to pay $14 million to thousands of immigrants it held for deportation at the request of the Obama administration, to settle a lawsuit [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander and Rachel Chason Prince George's County has agreed to pay the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer $20 million in what is [...]