Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay $149.5M to settle Washington state opioid claims

24 (UPI) --Johnson & Johnson officials agreed to pay a proposed $149.5 million settlement to the state of Washington to settle a lawsuit ... that would have paid $98.9 million over a nine-year ... Read More

Rent-a-Center to pay more than $8 million to settle claims of abusive conduct toward poor consumers

Rent-a-Center, one of the country’s largest rent-to-own consumer goods companies, will pay a $8.75 million fine to the state to settle allegations ... “filed criminal charges as a means ... Read More

Compass Agrees to Pay $57.5 Million, Make Policy Changes to Settle Real Estate Commission Lawsuits

Compass Agrees to Pay $57.5 Million, Make Policy Changes to Settle Real Estate Commission ... The jury in that case ordered the defendants to pay almost $1.8 billion in damages — and potentially ... Read More

Physicians, marketers across 5 states to pay $1.5M to settle kickback allegations

Physicians and marketers in five states agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle false claims allegations stemming from ... according to an April 1 news release from the Justice Department. Here are the ... Read More

Southwest Airlines to Pay $15 Million to Settle Collusion Claims

Southwest Airlines will pay $15 million to settle class action lawsuits claiming it conspired with Delta, United and American Airlines to keep ticket prices high by limiting capacity. DALLAS (CN) – ... Read More

Washington News

onto the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges and on a busy West Coast interstate A Washington state man has pleaded guilty to groping a woman during an Alaska Airlines flight from San Diego to ... Read More

LA to Pay $1.9 Million for Utility Crew Damage to Endangered Plants

The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay nearly $2 million in fines for bulldozing over nine acres of a state park in the Santa Monica Mountains ... The utility will pay $1.9 million for the violation ... Read More

Trafigura to Pay $127 Million to Settle U.S. Bribery Charges

Swiss commodity trading company Trafigura has settled U.S. charges that it bribed Brazilian officials to secure business with the country’s state ... agreed to pay nearly $127 million. Read More

Raleigh-based Mako Medical to pay $2.1M to settle unnecessary Medicaid billing claim

Dan Kane The News & Observer Mako Medical, a Raleigh-based lab-testing company, has agreed to pay the state $2.1 million after state investigators identified unnecessary Medicaid billing for urine ... Read More

Washington state fire battalion chief arrested on murder charges in wife's death

A Washington state fire department employee was arrested ... but Marcy West died at the scene. Detectives told Fox News Digital that they believed they had probable cause to arrest West for ... Read More

Washington physician agrees to pay $700K to settle false claims allegations

and healthcare staffing company Jackson & Coker LocumTenes, agreed to pay $700,000 to settle allegations of participating in ... according to a March 15 Justice Department news release. In 2021, Dr. Read More

Bankrupt Crypto Lender Genesis Agrees to Pay $21 Million to Settle SEC Charges

Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis Global Capital has agreed to pay $21 million to settle charges from regulators that it failed to register its retail crypto lending product before offering it to the ... Read More