Settlement News

FTX Cleared to Repay Billions in Settlements After Bankruptcy Plan OK

FTX received court approval of its bankruptcy plan on Monday, which will allow it to fully repay customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets recovered since the once-leading crypto exchange collapsed. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey approved the wind-down …

Ex-Citi Asia Desk Trader Settles Case After Unfair Dismissal Win

Citigroup Inc. settled an employment suit with an ex-trader after judges ruled he was unfairly dismissed by the bank over claims he was scapegoated for the lender’s decade-long regulatory failures in executing stock trades for clients in Asia. Ian Weir, …

Becton Dickinson Settles Vast Majority of Hernia-Mesh Suits

Becton Dickinson & Co. has agreed to settle the vast majority of the thousands of lawsuits claiming hernia patients were harmed by improper surgical mesh made by units of the medical technology giant, ending one of the largest current mass-tort …

DAE, AXA Clinch Deal as UK Battle Over Jets ‘Lost’ in Russia Kicks Off

Aircraft lessor Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has secured a settlement with insurer AXA over jets retained in Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, raising the prospect of further deals as a London High Court “mega trial” kicked off. Alistair …

US Reaches $31.5 Million Settlement With T-Mobile Over Data Breaches

T-Mobile has reached a $31.5 million settlement to resolve a probe by the Federal Communications Commission into significant data breaches over three years that impacted tens of millions of U.S. consumers, the agency said on Monday. T-Mobile will pay a …

Newsmax Settles Smartmatic Defamation Suit Over 2020 False Election Claims

Newsmax Media said on Thursday it had reached a confidential settlement of allegations that the conservative outlet damaged Smartmatic by broadcasting false claims that the voting machine company helped steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election from Donald Trump. The agreement …

Ex-Twitter Worker Wins Musk Layoff Pay Fight, Memo Says

Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform in 2022, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The resolution of the …

Vanguard, AllianceBernstein Sue Over Sports Park That Failed

Municipal bond funds that lost more than $200 million after a sprawling Arizona sports complex collapsed into bankruptcy sued the investment bank that underwrote the debt for the project and the father-and-son team that developed and managed it. The Vanguard …

Purdue Settlement Talks With Sacklers Extended to November

Purdue Pharma LP said its making progress in settlement talks with members of the Sackler family who own the company and won another extension of a breathing spell that’s shielded the family from civil lawsuits for years. Judge Sean Lane …

J&J Unit Files for Bankruptcy to Advance $10B Talc Settlement

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary filed for bankruptcy for a third time on Friday as the healthcare giant seeks to advance an approximately $10 billion proposed settlement that would end tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that the company’s baby …