Politics Jun 20 A judge’s ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma’s $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
Economy Jun 03 PacifiCorp will pay $178 million to Oregon wildfire victims in latest settlement over deadly 2020 blazes The utility says it has settled nearly 1,500 claims stemming from the Labor Day 2020 wildfires, which killed nine people and destroyed thousands of homes. By Claire Rush, Associated Press
Economy Jan 31 EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic The Justice Department says eBay failed to follow laws requiring verification buyers' identities and people who bought pill presses there have been charged in drug trafficking cases. By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Science Aug 01 Who was Henrietta Lacks? Here’s how HeLa cells became essential to medical research On Aug. 1, 2023, over 70 years after doctors took Lacks’ cells without her consent or knowledge, her family reached a settlement with biotech company Thermo Fisher. By Ivan Martinez, The Conversation
Economy May 05 TurboTax customers to receive restitution checks for $141M settlement Those impacted were low-income consumers eligible for free, federally-supported tax services — but paid TurboTax to file their federal returns across the 2016, 2017 and 2018 tax years due to “predatory and deceptive marketing.”… By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Associated Press
Apr 18 Fox, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787 million settlement over false election claims By David Bauder, Randall Chase, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787 million settlement Tuesday in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading
Nov 15 Walmart offers to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid epidemic lawsuits By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch 5:43 Jury orders conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $1 billion By Amna Nawaz, Dorothy Hastings Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion for the lies he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012. Jones falsely claimed the attack was a hoax and accused a grieving parent of being… Continue watching
Sep 06 Juul to pay nearly $440 million to settle probe into underage marketing of vape products Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the deal Tuesday on behalf of the states plus Puerto Rico, which joined together in 2020 to probe Juul's early promotions and claims about the safety and benefits of its technology as a smoking… Continue reading
Mar 03 Purdue Pharma, U.S. states agree to new settlement for opioid crisis By Geoff Mulvihill, John Seewer, Associated Press The deal reached Thursday would require members of the Sackler family who own the drugmaker to pay as much as $6 billion in cash. That's at least $1 billion more than previously agreed on. Continue reading