Bruce Willis settles extortion lawsuit
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Bruce Willis has settled a lawsuit filed against his childhood friend over allegations the man tried to extort at least $100,000 from the actor, Willis' publicist said.
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Dontrelle Willis agreed Thursday to a $29 million, three-year contract with the Detroit Tigers, two weeks after he was acquired from the Florida Marlins in the biggest trade of the offseason.
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News Corp and Judith Regan said on  Friday they had settled a $100 million lawsuit the publisher  brought against her former employer, closing out a case with  links to both O.J. Simpson and Rudy Giuliani.
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The companies settle a lawsuit in which the software giant was accused of poaching smart-phone trade secrets.
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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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The charges against the former chief executive, Sanjay Kumar, were revealed Wednesday after the company agreed to a $225 million settlement.
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Supermarket giant Wal-Mart agrees to pay $14.5m to settle a lawsuit over gun sales violations in California between 2000 and 2003.
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Two members of an alleged spamming ring paid Earthlink an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit, agreeing also to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the Internet service provider said.
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The insurance company has agreed to pay about $80 million to settle investigations into insurance sales that were used by companies to manipulate their earnings.
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Qwest Communications International Inc. has agreed to pay $250 million to settle financial and disclosure fraud charges, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19 -- The three largest Internet companies agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to settle civil allegations that they took ads for illegal gambling, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.
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By JIM SALTER      ST. LOUIS  -- A company driven out of business by Hollywood and the video game industry over its DVD- and computer game-copying software has reached a settlement with the motion picture industry...
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NEW YORK -- CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. chairman Sumner Redstone has settled a lawsuit with his son, according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
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The three largest Internet companies have agreed to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations they took ads for illegal gambling, the U.S. Attorney for eastern Missouri said Wednesday.
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By Bloomberg News. The AT&amp;T Corporation, the nation&#39;s biggest long-distance telephone company, said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit by shareholders who claimed the carrier had lied about its finances.
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CHICAGO Whitehall Jewellers Incorporated has agreed to pay 13 (m) million dollars to settle a lawsuit and a federal investigation into fraud charges.
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Debt-laden pop singer Michael Jackson reached a settlement on Monday over a breach-of-contract claim by New Jersey-based finance house Prescient Capital.