February 6, 2024
Britain’s most prominent business group, the Confederation of British Industry, has reached a settlement with its former chief Tony Danker who was dismissed following complaints of workplace misconduct. Danker was sacked as director general of the CBI last April after …
February 6, 2024
]A second contractor has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. The class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors, according to Boston-based Veolia North America. The company says the agreement …
February 1, 2024
GSK Plc has settled a US lawsuit on heartburn medicine Zantac just weeks before the case was due to be heard in a court in California. The British drugmaker said it had reached a confidential settlement with David Browne and …
January 29, 2024
Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020, in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides. The protesters were among tens of thousands …
January 24, 2024
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said it had reached a tentative settlement to resolve probes by U.S. states into whether it misled consumers about the safety of its talc products, which thousands of lawsuits claim can cause cancer. The deal …
January 23, 2024
Successful litigants holding trial-court judgments have traditionally found themselves positioned similarly to mountaineers atop Mount Everest: After a long, brutal and costly ascent to the summit, they are only halfway home, as their opponents vow to appeal and take their …
January 18, 2024
Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement with the London-based spirits giant. Combs and Diageo “have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them,” the two parties said in a …
January 17, 2024
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced a $3.5 million settlement with the online food delivery service platform Grubhub. The settlement resolves a 2021 lawsuit brought by Campbell alleging Grubhub illegally overcharged fees to Massachusetts restaurants in violation of a state …
January 17, 2024
Diageo Plc has settled a lawsuit with Sean Combs after the music mogul sued the British drinks company, accusing it of underinvestment in brands he fronted. Combs, known as Diddy, had accused the spirits company of racism in neglecting liquor …
January 16, 2024
Morgan Stanley is close to an agreement to pay $200 million to $300 million to resolve a yearslong US investigation into its employees’ handling of stock sales big enough to move markets, a probe that rattled major clients and reverberated …