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February 16, 2024
A Linde unit has agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle claims that it fraudulently billed the U.S. government and states for rented home breathing devices that patients were no longer using, New York federal prosecutors announced on Thursday.
February 16, 2024
FINRA announced that it has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC $1.6 million for the firm’s repeated failures to timely close out failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions and to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of municipal security positions that are short more than 30 calendar days, and related supervisory failures.
February 9, 2024
Eli Lilly agreed to provide low cost insulin to patients and donate free insulin to clinics, to settle a lawsuit by Minnesota that accused the three largest insulin makers of deceptively raising the price of the diabetes treatment.
February 7, 2024
Google agreed to pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit by shareholders related to a security bug at its now defunct Google+ social media website.
February 6, 2024
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a multistate agreement in principle on monetary terms, requiring opioid manufacturer Hikma Pharmaceuticals to pay up to $150 million to address its role in the opioid epidemic.
February 6, 2024
The Justice Department and the State of North Carolina jointly announced that First National Bank of Pennsylvania (FNB) has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
February 6, 2024
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that Providence, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, must forgive more than $137 million in medical debt and refund more than $20 million to patients the company billed for services despite knowing they likely qualified for free or reduced-cost health care.
January 30, 2024
The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that Kubota North America agreed to a settlement that requires it to pay a civil penalty and cease making misleading claims about the origins of its products.
January 29, 2024
Utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric will pay 45 million U.S. dollars in penalties for its involvement in the Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire in California\'s history, according to state regulators.
January 27, 2024
A Brazilian court has ordered Vale and BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay $9.56 billion (RM45 billion) for damage caused by a 2015 tailings dam collapse.
January 25, 2024
Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Estonia resolved the criminal case conducted by the Competition Authority, in which 6 companies and 8 people were suspected of entering into an agreement that harms free competition.
January 17, 2024
A North Carolina healthcare system has agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit involving its use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portals.