Settlement News

Infosys Settles Lawsuits Over Cyber Incident for $17.5 Million

Indian IT services provider Infosys said it had reached an agreement with the plaintiffs of lawsuits pending against its U.S. unit over the 2023 cyber incident. Infosys McCamish Systems has agreed to pay $17.5 million into a fund to settle …

IBM Wins UK Suit Against Lzlabs Over Alleged Mainframe Technology Theft

IBM on Monday won a London lawsuit against U.S. tech entrepreneur and philanthropist John Moores’ company LzLabs, which the IT giant accused of stealing trade secrets. IBM sued Switzerland-based LzLabs, two English subsidiaries and their ultimate owner Moores, who previously …

Robinhood Paying $29.75M to End Regulator’s Probes

Robinhood Markets, the online trading platform, agreed to pay $29.75 million to resolve several Financial Industry Regulatory Authority probes into its supervision and compliance practices, including failure to respond to “red flags” of potential misconduct. The brokerage regulator said on …

Canada Court Approves $23B Settlement to End Big Tobacco Lawsuits

A Canadian court approved a plan to settle long-running tobacco lawsuits in the country as part of which the units of three Big Tobacco companies will pay C$32.5 billion ($22.67 billion), Philip Morris and British American Tobacco said on Friday. …

Attorneys in $2.8B College Sports Suit Point to ‘Intergalactic Paradigm Shift’

Attorneys seeking approval of the $2.8 billion legal settlement for college sports pointed to nearly 102,000 athletes who signed up to receive damages from the action, while batting down objections to what they described as the “intergalactic paradigm shift” the …

J&J Spars With Foes of $9 Billion Talc Cancer Plan as Trial Ends

Johnson & Johnson told a judge its $9 billion proposal to settle baby powder cancer claims in bankruptcy court is the only viable way to end more than 15 years of litigation, while opponents assailed the company’s efforts to line …

Norfolk Southern Wins Dismissal of Bondholder Lawsuit Over 2023 Ohio Derailment

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Norfolk Southern of causing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for bondholders by concealing safety risks prior to the February 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio of a train carrying …

Musk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email

Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022. Four ex-Twitter workers have prevailed in a recent series of closed-door arbitration proceedings over claims they were illegally …

Walgreens to Pay $595 Million to Settle COVID Test Contract Dispute

Walgreens said it had entered into a settlement agreement with telemedicine provider Everly Health Solutions as part of which the pharmacy chain operator will pay the company $595 million over a contract dispute for COVID-19 testing. The settlement, payable within …

DoorDash to Pay $16.8 Million in Back Pay to New York Couriers

DoorDash Inc., the biggest food-delivery firm in the U.S. by market share, agreed to pay New York couriers $16.8 million in back pay to resolve a state investigation into its payment practices. DoorDash used customer tips to subsidize base pay …