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More than a year after an elderly man with dementia’s forcible arrest at Walmart, his family has reached a settlement. The family of John Hardwick reached a settlement with the City of Danville and the Danville Police Department on March 3, 2026. The settlement amount, per the headline of recent reporting, is $500,000 — a…
A proposed $37 million settlement would end nearly two decades of legal battles over Captain Sam’s Spit — 170 acres of dunes, beach, and wildlife habitat on the southern tip of Kiawah Island, South Carolina — and permanently block any future development on one of the state’s most contested stretches of coastline. The State Fiscal…
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner to make their private 2023 settlement with Ray J part of the public court record, rejecting their bid to keep the deal sealed. The ruling found that Kardashian and Jenner had failed to present any evidence that the deal and its terms…
CVS Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, Caremark, reached a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission on March 24, 2026, becoming the second of the three largest drug middlemen in the U.S. to resolve federal allegations that their business practices drove insulin prices higher — and then profited from the result. The proposed consent agreement was…
A 64-year-old courier died in 2016 after carbon dioxide gas from dry ice filled his vehicle. His family sued and a jury awarded $241 million. That should have been the end of the legal story. It wasn’t. Johnson’s widow has now filed a separate federal lawsuit against Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, claiming the…
Baltimore’s city government approved more than $230,000 in injury settlements this week after a string of incidents involving a police officer grabbing food, a crumbling sidewalk, a falling tree, and a runaway trash truck. The Board of Estimates approved $230,271 for five different injury claims, though $455,271 in total settlements were recommended by the city’s…
Investors who bought or acquired Wayland Group Corp. or Maricann Group Inc. securities during the covered period now have until November 30, 2026, to file a claim in the court-approved CAD $8 million securities class action settlement. The claim deadline was extended from September 30, 2026, to November 30, 2026, according to a September 29…
More than $237 million of the $375 million UFC antitrust settlement has already reached former fighters — but roughly 10% of eligible claimants are still waiting. Lead counsel Berger Montague confirmed the payment figures on April 1, 2026 and disclosed the specific legal, regulatory, and personal circumstances holding up the remaining funds. If you competed…
If you bought activewear from Fabletics online or in stores between early 2025 and February 2026, you may have paid a tariff surcharge the U.S. Supreme Court has since declared unconstitutional. A proposed class action filed on March 6, 2026, in Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois accuses Fabletics LLC of passing illegal IEEPA tariff…