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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750M to Settle Federal Charges Over Adulterated Drugs

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GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million to settle federal charges in the fourth-largest health care fraud settlement in the U.S. The deal calls for GSK to plead guilty to introducing four types of adulterated drugs for delivery into interstate commerce from March 2003 to October 2004. The drugs were made by subsidiary SB Pharma [...]

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Botox Maker to Pay $600 Million in Settlement Over Off-Label Uses

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Allergan has agreed to pay $600 million in criminal and civil penalties and plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of "misbranding" its drug Botox as part of a global settlement with the federal government over off-label uses of the drug. As part of the plea deal, Allergan agreed to drop its First Amendment legal action [...]

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Minn. Bridge Collapse Victims Get $52 Million Settlement

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Attorneys for the victims of the bridge collapse that killed 13 people in Minneapolis in August 2007 announced Monday that they had reached a settlement with the engineering company responsible for inspecting the bridge. In negotiations held this past weekend, URS Corp. agreed to pay $52.4 million to more than 100 people who sued the [...]

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$125 Million Shareholder Settlement Approved in New Century Financial Collapse

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A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $125 million cash settlement for shareholders of bankrupt New Century Financial, one of the largest lenders to collapse during the subprime mortgage meltdown. The settlement involves three stipulations: Auditor KPMG LLP will pay $44.75 million; the underwriter defendants will pay $15 million; and New Century's [...]

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Baker & McKenzie to Pay $6 Million in Settlement Over Coudert Business

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Baker & McKenzie has agreed to pay $6.65 million to compensate Coudert Brothers' bankruptcy estate for profits Baker earned from unfinished business that partners took with them when they left the defunct Coudert. Baker will forfeit most of its interest in an estimated $17 million in contingency fees for litigation that former Coudert partners were [...]

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Billion-Dollar Cobell, Pigford Settlements Hit a New Snag

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Members of Congress are still looking for a way to authorize a couple of billion-dollar agreements that would settle litigation involving the federal government and minority groups. The House of Representatives had included authority for the settlements in a bill authorizing supplemental war funding. That bill passed the House July 1. But senators rejected that [...]

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Who Really Won in Goldman Sachs' Settlement With the SEC?

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Legal experts will argue over who got the best deal -- Goldman Sachs or federal regulators -- in the record fraud settlement announced Thursday. But one thing seems certain: The investing public didn't. Goldman agreed to pay $550 million, which pales in comparison to the estimated $1 billion the SEC had alleged that investors had [...]

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Paxil Litigation Over Birth Defects Shifts to Settlement

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GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to settle for confidential amounts almost 200 cases in which plaintiffs allege that the use of the antidepressant Paxil caused birth defects. One particular case that GSK has agreed to settle -- Kilker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline -- was viewed by the plaintiffs mass torts bar as a leading indicator [...]

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Senator Turns Up the Heat Over Attorney Fees in Cobell Settlement

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The U.S. Senate is poised to vote soon on a jobs-and-tax package that would also authorize a settlement in long-running litigation over American Indian trust accounts. Still to be decided: what the cap will be for attorney fees in that case. Lawyers in the case agreed to cap fees at $100 million, but Sen. John [...]

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New Settlement Reached in 9/11 Injury Cases

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A new settlement has been reached among the parties in the thousands of cases alleging respiratory and other illnesses due to rescue and cleanup after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Lawyers representing New York City and ground zero workers appeared before Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein today to propose an increased [...]

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Microsoft Wins Best Legal Department of 2010

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The December 2009 settlement of Microsoft's antitrust battle with European regulators, 10 years and billions of dollars in the making, was also symbolic for the company's legal team, which has set out to prove that it can resolve disputes amicably, despite Microsoft's reputation for aggressively fighting legal disputes to their bitter, final end. It's one [...]

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More Work Is Needed to Reach a Fair 9/11 Settlement, Judge Says

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A New York federal judge on Friday scuttled a proposed settlement of lawsuits filed by more than 10,000 Ground Zero workers seeking compensation for health problems triggered by their exposure to ash and dust spewed into the air after the 9/11 terror attacks. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who has presided over the often bitter litigation [...]

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WaMu, JPMorgan Agree to $6 Billion Settlement

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Washington Mutual's estate has reached a proposed settlement with JPMorgan Chase and federal regulators that will result in the return of $4 billion in deposits and nearly $2 billion in other cash that will be used to pay WaMu creditors, according to lawyers involved in the matter. As part of the proposed settlement, which still [...]

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World Trade Center Settlement Gets Backing Needed to Take Effect

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Plaintiffs' lawyers succeeded in getting more than 95 percent of their clients in In re World Trade Center Litigation to opt into the massive settlement of some 10,000 claims alleging respiratory and other health problems from the post-9/11 response and cleanup. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Settlement, Center, Take, Trade, Backing, [...]

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