In such a case, class action litigation could result, and a company may have to determine how to handle the legal predicament. Florida readers may be interested in a case involving Google that recently came to a settlement. A class action lawsuit was filed against the company, and recently, Google agreed to settle the matter. The total amount of the settlement is $7.25 million, and some Pixel …
A years-long lawsuit between Michael Jackson’s estate and one of the superstar’s former managers has been settled, ending one of the final legal fights over the King of Pop’s assets. The confidential settlement announced Thursday with Tohme R. Tohme, Jackson’s manager in the last year of his life, was reached after a trial had been underway for five days. It comes a month short of the 10th …
Vegan brand Miyoko’s Kitchen amicably settled a lawsuit filed against the vegan creamery in October out of court. The suit, brought by New York plaintiff Jasmine Brown, alleged that the vegan brand “basks in dairy’s ‘halo’” by using the term “butter” on its Cultured Vegan Butter—which overtly states that the cashew-based product is made from plants. “We have been asked not to comment on it …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – A growing number of veterans are suing the makers of an earplug that the government said is defective. The Department of Justice already settled its own case against the company, 3M, but none of that money went to the soldiers who suffered hearing loss. lawsuit all came about because of a whistleblower that alleged 3M did not disclose defects about the specific …
Massachusetts Financial Services Co. agreed to settle a class action by employees challenging the affiliated mutual funds in their 401(k) plans. The lawsuit accuses MFS of mismanaging the plans, which together hold more than $500 million, by offering high-cost funds affiliated with the company and by failing to investigate lower-fee options. More than 99 percent of the plans’ assets were held …
Drug distributor McKesson Corp. has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve claims brought by West Virginia officials that the company helped fuel the opioid epidemic, the two sides said Thursday. The deal resolves one piece of opioid-related liability for McKesson but leaves open many more. The San Francisco-based distributor is among roughly two dozen companies up and down the drug supply chain …
Thomson wrote an obituary for her father and gave permission to a funeral home and the Green’s Harbour Community Channel to publish it, along with a photograph she’d taken. The decision acts as a deterrentShe later discovered that Afterlife was displaying her father’s obituary and photograph on its website alongside options to buy flowers and virtual candles — all without her permission. …
The plaintiffs in the case claimed Avandia, which is used to treat Type 2 diabetes, increased the risk of cardiovascular events including heart attacks and congestive heart failure. It took almost a decade for the class-action lawsuit to finally deliver results for the plaintiffs. The company will pay $3,666,666.67 into a fund for people who suffered myocardial infarction, coronary artery …
ORLANDO, Fla. – Thousands of SeaWorld annual passholders will be awarded refunds as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that passes were automatically renewed without customers knowing it, meaning customers continued to be charged monthly payments after they had paid off their year-long pass. More than 131,000 people who bought one-year EZpay annual passes to …
A Delaware Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise must pay over $1.5 million in damages to a former employee who said that she was demoted for needing to pump breast milk. New mom Autumn Lampkins said in her lawsuit that management and fellow employees made it so difficult to pump during her long shifts that her breast milk dried up, according to The News Journal. …