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 family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond last year filed a $50 million civil rights lawsuit against ex-officer Mohamed Noor, the police department and the city. At a news conference earlier in the day, Frey avoided going into specifics about the Noor verdict because of the lawsuit. “Minneapolis is an extraordinary city, and like cities throughout the nation, we also have difficulties with police …
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. …
(TNS) — Wendy’s will pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from a data breach that hit more than 1,000 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016. On Wednesday, the Ohio-based burger chain announced the pending agreement with financial institutions that alleged Wendy’s did not protect customer credit card information. Wendy’s said it will pay $27.5 million of the settlement, with the rest …
Rent-A-Center said Monday it will be paid $92.5 million as part of an agreement to end litigation over the Plano-based rent-to-own retailer’s surprise termination of its pending merger with Vintage Capital last year. The agreement in principle to settle litigation with Vintage Capital Management LLC and its financial partner B. Riley Financial Inc. will end a dispute that started last December. …
According to Patently Apple on December 26, two iPhone users living in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel recently filed a class action suit against Apple, claiming that Apple should pay them US$125 million in damages. “Apple did not disclose the fact that our use of the iPhone is negatively affected by its software update, and this is a violation of its basic duty for customers,” they said, adding, …
The new Mercedes-Benz football stadium has dazzled fans and excited citizens of Atlanta. But, a lawsuit obtained by our FOX 5 I-Team, claims the Falcons should be paying an estimated $26 million dollars per year in property taxes. The Fayetteville attorney who filed the lawsuit says Atlanta Public School kids are missing out on 13 million dollars in taxes a year.
Wilmington Trust Corp., the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program, reached a $60 million settlement with prosecutors Tuesday just as the corporation and four former top executives were set to go to trial on bank fraud charges. “The bank being removed from the case has really upset the strategy and planning and preparation for the …