Calif. Order to Pay &#36;6.3M to Settle Suits
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A Roman Catholic religious order has agreed to pay &#36;6.3 million to settle lawsuits brought by three former students who were sexually abused by counselors and teachers at an elite private school in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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HealthSouth Corp. , an operator of health care facilities, said on Thursday it agreed to pay &#36;325 million to settle U.S. Department of Justice charges that it improperly billed Medicare.
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California's Attorney General announced a $14.5 million civil settlement with Hewlett-Packard Co. this afternoon, three months after the Silicon Valley computer giant was engulfed in an ethics and spying scandal that led to criminal charges against former top executives.
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A federal jury Wednesday ordered Sony to pay &#36;82 million to Immersion for violating the San Jose company's patents on video game technology.
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California filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the brokerage house Edward D. Jones &amp; Co. of accepting $300 million in improper payments to push its clients toward certain mutual funds.
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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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A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered that residuals earned by O.J. Simpson for his past film and TV work be paid to the father of homicide victim Ron Goldman to help satisfy a $33.5 million judgment.
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Ireland's major pharmaceutical firm, Elan Corp. PLC, said Tuesday it plans to pay &#36;55 million to resolve a U.S. class-action lawsuit and a related investigation by American federal regulators into alleged accounting malpractice.
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A judge Monday unsealed the details of a record &#36;100 million settlement with a Southern California diocese over sex abuse allegations against clergy. Alleged victims sobbed as they spoke publicly about a deal that was nearly two years in the making.
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Bee Staff Writer. In what insurance officials are calling one of the largest fines for workers&#39; compensation fraud, two Southern California firms have been ordered to pay $14.6 million
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Michael Jackson reached a settlement  on Monday with a New Jersey financial company that brought a  $48 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against him.
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International Business Machines Corp. has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to pensions, and will take a charge of &#36;320 million in the current quarter, the technology company said on Wednesday.
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International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday it will pay at least $300 million to settle part of a lawsuit that claimed the firm's pension plan discriminated against older workers.
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IBM Corp. and plaintiffs challenging the legality of its pension plan agreed to a deal Wednesday that settles most claims and caps the company's potential liability at &#36;1.7 billion. The company previously had estimated a settlement could cost as much as &#36;6.5 billion.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) has agreed to pay $300 million to settle most of the claims in a class action lawsuit related to its pension plan, the company announced today.
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A California judge on Wednesday  formally ordered the former husband of Jennifer Lopez to pay  the singer-actress $545,000 for trying to publish a tell-all  book about their relationship.
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A JUDGE IS ordering Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.