Aramark Faces $105 Mln Lawsuit Verdict
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Aramark Corp. RMK.N on Thursday said  a New Jersey jury ordered it to pay $105 million in damages for  serving alcohol to a fan at a football game who was involved in  a car accident that crippled a toddler.
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KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit over the collapse of Belgium&#39;s Lernout &amp; Hauspie Speech Products NV, by agreeing to pay $115 million, one of the law firms representing investors said
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MicrosoftÂ must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday.
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update Infineon Technologies will plead guilty to taking part in an international DRAM price-fixing conspiracy, which affected such companies as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple, the US Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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A U.S. jury found that Vonage Holdings Corp had infringed patents owned by Sprint Nextel Corp and ordered the Internet phone company to pay $69.5 million in damages, triggering a 34 percent fall in its shares.
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A federal jury found Qualcomm Inc.  guilty of infringing three patents owned by smaller rival Broadcom Corp.  and it awarded Broadcom $19.6 million in damages on Tuesday, the companies said.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury on Tuesday found that Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG failed to adequately warn a patient of the bowel disease risks associated with its acne medicine Accutane and awarded him $2.5 million in damages.
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A New Jersey jury on Monday ordered Merck & Co.  to pay $27.5 million in punitive damages after finding that the drugmaker was willful and reckless in promoting arthritis medicine Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn.
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Sun Microsystems faces the possibility of having to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant&#39;s popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.
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Company says Arbinet will settle in copyright infringement dispute.
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By Terry McCoy, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 26--The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a mild hand slap in the form of a $61,000 civil penalty against Moyer Packing Co.
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Vonage Holdings Corp  said on Tuesday that it will appeal a U.S. jury verdict that it willfully infringed patents belonging to Sprint Nextel Corp  and that it pay $69.5 million in damages.
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CHICAGO -- After a decade-long court fight, printing giant RR Donnelley &amp; Sons Co. has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by black workers at a now-closed plant.
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â¢American International Group, Inc. reported that AIG Financial Products Corp., a subsidiary, has reached an $80 million settlement with the Department of Justice concerning charges that stemmed from structured
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court threw out a $79.5 million punitive damages award to a smoker's widow Tuesday, a boon to businesses seeking stricter limits on big-dollar jury verdicts. The 5-4 ruling was a victory for Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA, which contested an Oregon Supreme Court...
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A New Jersey jury on Monday ordered  Merck & Co.  to pay $27.5 million in punitive damages  after finding that the drugmaker was willful and reckless in  promoting arthritis medicine Vioxx, which has since been  withdrawn.