In its second major settlement over wildfire claims, Pacific Gas and Electric agreed Friday to pay $11 billion to insurers that covered losses for Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
Read morePurdue Pharma has reached a proposed agreement to settle thousands of claims from cities, counties and tribes that sued the pharmaceutical giant over its role in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
Read moreThe Houston area’s top prosecutor sent her chief of staff to meet with local NAACP officials Thursday to assure them she supports bail reforms to keep poor misdemeanor arrestees out of jail, but she has concerns with a proposed settlement she says will endanger domestic violence victims.
Read moreThe Options Clearing Corporation will pay $20 million and change its ways to settle SEC and CFTC complaints about its risk management and information systems security.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington approved a settlement Wednesday that will allow CVS and Aetna to go forward with a $69 billion merger.
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Fewer whales were found caught in fishing gear off the West Coast this year, indicating that a settlement that ended California’s Dungeness crab season early appears to be working thus far.
Read moreA federal judge preliminarily approved a $2 million class settlement to nurses who say Rise Medical Staffing underpaid them.
Read moreA federal judge signed off on a settlement Friday in which “Pokemon Go” maker Niantic agrees to set up a way for property owners to have targets removed from their properties, in hopes of ending the barrage of game-playing trespassers at cemeteries, Washington’s Holocaust Museum and the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Read moreVolkswagen asked a federal judge Friday to approve a $96.5 million settlement to resolve claims its diesel vehicles emitted more emissions and had lower fuel economy than advertised.
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Opioid manufacturer Allergan announced a settlement on Friday in advance of an October trial over the impact of the drug epidemic on America’s cities and counties.
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Houston city workers face a monumental task, as the city struck a deal with state and federal regulators Tuesday agreeing to spend $2 billion over 15 years to improve its sewage system.
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State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday they are in settlement talks with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation’s opioid crisis.
Read moreA federal judge approved a $49 million settlement for indirect purchasers of lithium ion batteries: Samsung will pay $39.5 million, Panasonic $5.5 million, and Toshiba and Tokin each will pay $2 million.
Read moreA federal judge preliminarily approved Ulta Salon’s $3.4 million settlement of a wage class action by employees.
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West Virginia University President Gordon Gee and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich are creating a nonprofit that will fight to steer cash from any national opioid settlement to hospitals, rather than to local and state governments already sparring for control of the dollars.
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A lawsuit accusing the former bishop of West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese of molesting boys and men has been settled.
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Two pharmaceutical companies have reached settlements totaling $15 million to avoid being defendants in the first federal trial on the drug industry’s accountability for a nationwide opioid crisis.
Read moreA former Utah police officer who shot and killed a woman in her car cannot resue the city that fired him — after it rehired him and settled — the 10th Circuit affirmed Tuesday.
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