A settlement has been reached in the Baltimore Bridge collapse case. The owner and operator of the cargo ship that struck the bridge agreed to pay $102 million to the federal government. However, the state of Maryland estimates the total cost to rebuild the bridge could reach $1.9 billion. NTD discussed the impact of the […]
Raytheon, a subsidiary of defense contractor RTX, has agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve federal investigations into government contract fraud, as well as violations of anti-corruption and export control laws. The settlement, announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16, addresses allegations involving defective pricing on military contracts with the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C.—The family of a South Carolina woman struck in the head and killed by a rotting 70-year-old utility pole will get $30 million through a wrongful death settlement reached Thursday. Electric company Dominion Energy, which installed a light on the pole, and communications company Comporium, which owned a drooping pole line in downtown Wagner […]
A judge has approved a settlement between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and FTX, the defunct crypto exchange founded by convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, that involves $12.7 billion in compensation paid by FTX to defrauded customers. The settlement, filed on Aug. 8 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, […]
People who live near East Palestine, Ohio, can now get $25,000 apiece for any injuries they sustained after last year’s Norfolk Southern freight train derailment on top of whatever money they get for property damage as part of a $600 million class-action settlement. The lawyers who negotiated the deal have increased the estimated injury payment […]
Israel kills a Hezbollah terrorist leader in a retaliatory strike. What does this mean for growing tensions in the region? The FBI has yet to find evidence of a possible motive behind the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Hear senators question the FBI and Secret Service leadership during a special hearing. Meta agrees […]
Uber and Lyft drivers will finally get the settlement money they’ve been waiting for. Drivers who didn’t opt out of arbitration had to endure an eight-and-a-half-year-long court battle for stolen wages. Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, spoke with NTD about it.
The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 on June 27 that U.S. bankruptcy law does not allow courts to approve an opioid manufacturer’s bankruptcy settlement that extinguishes the claims of those alleging they were harmed by opioid use. The case is Harrington v. Purdue Pharma LP. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the court’s majority opinion. Joining the opinion […]
The District of Columbia has reached a final consent judgment with Johnson & Johnson, resolving allegations it misled consumers about the safety of some talcum powder products in a significant legal settlement. Under the the consent judgment, the company will pay $700 million to 47 states involved in a multistate working group without admitting wrongdoing […]
Nearly $50 billion in opioid settlement money from multiple lawsuits related to the opioid crisis is now being distributed to states. NTD spoke with an addiction specialist about how the money could be best spent. See his take on needle exchange programs, suboxone, and other uses.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs in the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state. In other cases that have gone to trial over the past year, Oregon juries in multiple verdicts have ordered […]
California has agreed to designate at least $2 billion to help disadvantaged students who fell behind in their learning during the COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a recent legal settlement. In 2020, families in Los Angeles and Oakland sued the California Department of Education (CDE) while public school students were still learning remotely. Filed by nonprofit […]
WASHINGTON—The e-commerce giant eBay will pay $59 million in a settlement with the Justice Department over thousands of pill press machines sold on the platform, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The machines can be used to manufacture counterfeit pills that look just like prescription pills but instead can be laced with substances like fentanyl, a […]
OLYMPIA, Wash.—The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis. “They knew what the harm was. They did it anyway,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson told reporters Wednesday. The attorney general’s […]
Todd and Julie Chrisley, former reality TV stars presently incarcerated for charges related to fraud and tax evasion, have been granted a $1 million settlement by the state of Georgia. The family’s legal team announced the victory on Tuesday. This substantial financial arrangement is a result of a lawsuit filed by the Chrisleys in 2019 […]
RENO, Nev.—A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed—including his newlywed wife—when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018. Under the settlement approved in Las Vegas on Friday, the family of Jonathan Udall, 31, will […]
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fueled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its work for drug companies including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. The settlement was disclosed in papers filed on Friday in federal court in San Francisco. […]
DALLAS—Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of flights and stranded more than 2 million travelers over the holidays. Most of the settlement will go toward compensating future passengers, which the […]
NEW YORK—New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday. The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of three men convicted for the 1996 killing of a Queens check-cashing store owner and an off-duty […]
Apple will pay a $25 million settlement for claims by the Department of Justice that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over U.S. citizens and green card holders for certain jobs, the agency said on Thursday. The DOJ said in a statement that Apple did not recruit U.S. citizens or permanent residents for jobs that […]
