The Superior Court of San Francisco County denied Sutter Health’s request to delay final approval of a $575 million settlement in a class action antitrust case. The health care provider indicated that it “might oppose approval of the settlement depending on how future events” related to the ongoing pandemic unfold.
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Endangered California shorebirds who took advantage of pandemic beach closures to expand their nesting area on a Northern California beach won’t be evicted, the California Coastal Commission announced Wednesday after it reached an agreement with State Parks to keep the beach closed through the fall.
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Chemical giant Bayer said it will reconsider a plan to resolve future litigation related to the toxicity of the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, after a federal judge expressed concerns about the “propriety and fairness” of a portion of the proposed $10 billion settlement.
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Accused of turning a blind eye to suspicious cash withdrawals and legal settlements conducted on behalf of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Deutsche Bank reached a $150 million settlement with New York regulators on Tuesday.
Read moreBoston-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals will pay $21.5 million to settle charges of bribing officials in Turkey and Russia to get favorable treatment for its primary drug, Soliris, which treats a blood disease, the SEC said Thursday.
Read moreSwiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has agreed to pay more than $642 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of paying kickbacks to doctors, among other allegations, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Read moreOverturning a key aspect of an extraordinary restraining order blocking publication of a book by the president’s niece Mary Trump, a New York appeals court ruled on Wednesday night that Simon & Schuster is not bound by it.
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Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board have reached a nearly $19 million settlement with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, New York state’s attorney general and lawyers in a class-action lawsuit said Tuesday.
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In an extraordinary prior restraint on a tell-all book about a U.S. president, a New York judge temporarily blocked publication of Mary Trump’s memoir “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” on Tuesday.
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BayerAG will pay $10 billion to resolve a raft of litigation over its herbicides, including claims that its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read morePresident Trump’s brother has asked a New York City judge to prevent the president’s niece from publishing a tell-all book, which is expected to be released soon.
Read moreLos Angeles will create 6,000 new homeless beds in the next 10 months as part of an agreement between city and county governments who are being sued in federal court over a lack of progress on the growing population of people living on the streets.
Read moreAmTrust Financial Services and its former CFO Ronald E. Pipoly Jr. will pay $10.5 million for failing to disclose material facts about how the company estimated its insurance losses and reserves, the SEC said.
Read moreUnder the terms of a settlement filed in federal court in California, Wells Fargo will pay $1.185 million and change its lending practice for direct auto financing to offer DACA recipients loans under the same terms and conditions available to U.S. citizens.
Read moreScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor, has paid $5,982,865 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in an Army contract.
Read moreA group of residents and merchants in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district have settled their lawsuit blaming the the city for street conditions that have made their neighborhood unlivable.
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A federal judge on Thursday refused to sign off on a $550 million data privacy settlement with Facebook, saying lawyers must first explain why the deal provides only a small fraction of damages that class members may be entitled to.
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During a telephone conference Wednesday over Martin Shkreli’s pharmaceutical price-rigging, the Federal Trade Commission reported little progress on court-ordered settlement talks.
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