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A sixth-grade girl from Rockton who was thrown 100 feet into a ditch after a car plowed through an active school bus stop sign in January 2025 has received a $52 million settlement — the largest settlement with an injured pedestrian in Winnebago County history. The family of the Stephen Mack Middle School student accepted…
Louisville, Kentucky has agreed to pay $800,000 in attorneys’ fees to settle a First Amendment lawsuit brought by Christian wedding photographer Chelsey Nelson against the city’s Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government. Nelson filed the lawsuit in 2019, arguing Louisville’s Fairness Ordinance could force her to create photographs and blogs celebrating same-sex marriages that conflicted with her…
Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) has officially declared its public cash offer for JDE Peet’s (Euronext: JDEP) unconditional. The offer period closed on March 27, 2026, with 466,712,270 shares tendered — representing 96.22% of all JDE Peet’s shares, with a total aggregate value of approximately EUR 14.86 billion. Settlement takes place on April 1, 2026,…
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $10.9 million in refund checks to 443,048 consumers who paid Financial Education Services (FES) — also known as United Wealth Education and United Wealth Services — between May 2019 and May 2022. The FTC sued FES in 2022, alleging the Michigan-based company lured consumers with low credit…
Long-percolating National Labor Relations Board litigation accusing Starbucks of snubbing Workers United at hundreds of cafes is set to move forward after a two-year delay, with the board lifting the stay in the consolidated case. The NLRB’s decision to revive the hearing — reported March 26, 2026 — puts one of the most consequential labor…
A Puerto Rico federal court ruled on March 26, 2026 that MAPFRE PRAICO Insurance Company missed its legal window to sue a man it accused of illegally posing as a licensed public adjuster to demand nearly $48 million in Hurricane Maria insurance claims on behalf of a transportation agency. The decision — issued by the…
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities Inc., JP Morgan Securities LLC, and the other architects of bankrupted biotech company Zymergen Inc.’s short-lived market debut agreed to pay $125 million to settle an investor class action. The deal, proposed to U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts in the Northern District of California on March 26,…
Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by women who accused the bank of facilitating their sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. The settlement — the fourth of its kind against a major U.S. bank — still requires approval from U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who scheduled a hearing…
LastPass US LP agreed to pay up to $24,450,000 to resolve a class action lawsuit arising from a data security incident that occurred between August and November 2022. If you received an email notice from LastPass about that breach or about this settlement, you have until July 2, 2026 to file a claim. Depending on…