Prosecutors-State Farm Reach &#36;40 Mln Deal
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State Farm Mutual Insurance will compensate about 30,000 customers who unwittingly bought damaged or salvaged cars, the Iowa attorney general said on Monday.
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Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.  and Thomas Weisel Partners agreed to pay a combined &#36;100 million to settle charges involving conflicts of interest between research and investment banking, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.
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Merck &amp; Co  agreed to pay more than $649 million to resolve litigation related to its cholesterol drug Zocor and painkiller Vioxx, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Carl Pavano and the Yankees  have finalized a deal that was set in motion at the winter  meetings Saturday, reportedly agreeing on a four-year contract  worth $40 million.
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Invesco Funds Group Inc. and affiliate AIM Advisors Inc. agreed to a &#36;450 million settlement with state and federal regulators to resolve probes of improper trading, officials and the parent company said on Tuesday.
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The PIMCO mutual fund group's adviser and two affiliates will pay &#36;11.6 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges involving improper "revenue-sharing" payments to brokers, said a source familiar with the case on Wednesday.
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The Justice Department says HealthSouth Corporation has agreed to pay the US government 325 (m) million dollars. The money is to settle numerous allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs.
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Investment banks Goldman Sachs Group  Inc. GS.N and Morgan Stanley MWD.N have agreed to pay about  $40 million each to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission allegations of misconduct in their handling of  initial public stock offerings, sources familiar with the  matter said on Tuesday.
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Schering-Plough Corp.  said on  Tuesday it will pay $435 million and plead guilty to one count  of conspiracy to make false statements to the government to  settle an investigation into its sales, marketing and clinical  trial practices and programs.
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The state of Ohio said on Wednesday  that it had reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner  Inc.  on behalf of six state funds that claimed they  were defrauded after the media conglomerate merged with the  online service AOL.
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Nearly &#36;70 million in state bond money earmarked for reducing pollution was used by California dairies to expand their operations, which resulted in more pollution, according to a published report.
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Federal regulators said on Tuesday three former employees of Invesco Funds Group Inc. agreed to pay &#36;340,000 in fines to settle charges that they had a role in allowing improper trading in Invesco mutual funds, leaving a settlement with the company to be hammered out.
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SWS Group Inc.'s  Southwest Securities Inc. subsidiary agreed to pay &#36;10 million to settle charges that managers failed to supervise brokers who had engaged in improper trading of mutual funds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.
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Ritchie Capital will pay $40 million to settle investigations into its trading practices from 2001 to 2003, regulators and the company said.
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ST. LOUIS -- The nation&#39;s third-largest operator of kidney-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the government $350 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare.
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Restructuring charges of $44 million contributed to Monsanto&#39;s reported fourth-quarter 2004 loss of $42 million, compared to a loss of $188 million in the same quarter last year.
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Insurance giant Zurich Financial Services said Tuesday it had reached a &#36;47.5 million settlement in the United States to end litigation over the bankruptcy of a nursing home chain.