VW owners wait for modifications to collect settlement Published: January 16, 2017 5:55 PM EST Updated: January 16, 2017 6:41 PM EST FORT MYERS, Fla. — Some Volkswagen owners are still waiting for the company to come up with an approved fix for their vehicles so they can collect from a massive class-action settlement. As part of a nearly $15 billion settlement agreement , Volkswagen agreed to …
Sexual predators have to stick together, amirite? Being a woman and working at Fox News must’ve been (and may still be) an absolute nightmare. On the heels of a $20 million settlement with Gretch Carlson over sexual harassment claims against former Fox chief Roger Ailes, it turns out the network secretly settled another sexual harassment lawsuit: In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the …
Wells Fargo Advisors has reached a $35.5 million settlement with a group of African-American financial advisers who claimed the firm discriminated against them due to their race. The group of six brokers, with lead plaintiff Lance Slaughter, are joined by 325 confirmed African American brokers or trainees at the firm, said Linda Friedman, the attorney for the class plaintiffs. There could be …
A public-interest law firm that represents class members against unfair class action procedures and settlements has filed an objection to a $5.5 million settlement with Google Inc. over allegations that the search engine giant circumvented web browser privacy settings. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness filed its objection …
A Montgomery County woman has appealed the approval of the nationwide settlement of multiple federal class-action lawsuits that claimed popular Shop Vac Corp wet-dry vacuums do not live up to their advertised specifications. Michelle Vullings of Collegeville, who in August had called the then-proposed settlement “unfair,” filed her appeal Monday in U.S. Middle District Court. …
Academy of Art University has agreed to pay $20 million and to build 160 units of affordable housing to settle a lawsuit filed by the city of San Francisco over the institution’s widespread land-use violations. Under the proposed deal, announced Monday, the university will pay the city $20 million in cash …
DeVry University will pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its ads misled prospective students, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. The money will go back to tens of thousands of students that attended DeVry between 2008 and 2015. Some will be reimbursed with cash and others will receive debt relief.
Four electronics giants will pay $124.5 million in an antitrust class action to indirect purchasers of optical disk drives, in a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge. Hitachi-LG Data Storage will pay $73 million; Sony will pay $28.5 million; Panasonic $16.5 million; and NEC $6.5 million. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg’s final approval on Monday …
A judge will likely announce next week whether a potentially very costly lawsuit against Comcast can go to trial. King County Superior Court Judge Timothy Bradshaw heard testimony last week from Comcast lawyers and those from the office of Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who have sued the MSO for $100 million, alleging the cable company’s service protection plan is basically a …
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has settled a lawsuit brought by a former staffer who alleged that he was fired in part because he was unwilling to focus solely on the State Department and Hillary Clinton in order to understand the attacks, attorneys for the staffer said. The settlement ends a messy dispute that raised questions about whether the committee — formed to investigate the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans at U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya — was trying to achieve partisan goals. The staffer, Bradley Podliska, alleged in court …