WASHINGTON — The U.S. government announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday and filed a criminal charge alleging the company defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The penalty ...

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ALBANY — New York’s attorney general announced a settlement with generic drug manufacturers Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA intended to ensure they don’t collude to restrict competition. According to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the settlement ends their 2010 agreement ...

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A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has approved Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s $767 million settlement with Freddie Mac — an agreement that releases hundreds of millions of dollars to return to the failed investment bank’s creditors. Freddie Mac was seeking a ...

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ALBANY — A New York judge on Friday approved most of the $8.5 billion Bank of America settlement over investor losses from mortgage-backed securities, concluding that trustee Bank of New York Mellon acted reasonably with one exception. Critics of the ...

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After an investigation uncovered widespread violations of New York law requiring health insurers to offer young adults continuation health coverage on their parents’ policies, the state has reached a settlement with EmblemHealth Inc. EmblemHealth is a health insurance company that ...

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NEW YORK — New York City has agreed to pay $18 million to settle dozens of lawsuits filed by protesters, journalists and bystanders who said they were wrongly arrested at the 2004 Republican National Convention, lawyers said Wednesday. The settlement, ...

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A settlement has been reached with MPHJ Technology Investments LLC, a so-called “patent troll.” An investigation by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman focused on MPHJ’s use of deceptive and abusive tactics when it contacted hundreds of small and medium-sized New ...

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A settlement has been reached between the state and L. Woerner Inc., which does business as Home Care of Rochester. The settlement resolves an investigation into false billings, including billing Medicaid for more than 6,500 hours of services provided by ...

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NEW YORK — American Express has agreed to pay at least $75.7 million to end an investigation by regulators into some discontinued card products. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said Tuesday that American Express led consumers to believe that an ...

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said US Foods will pay a $330,000 settlement for overcharging dozens of institutions across the state by failing to pass on cost savings from manufacturers. Schneiderman announced Wednesday that the Rosemont, Ill.-based ...

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A settlement has been reached by the state with Joseph Bella, operator of several debt collection companies in the Buffalo area. Bella will pay $165,000 in restitution and penalties for illegally collecting on payday loans, violating the privacy of consumers ...

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ALBANY — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a record $13 billion settlement with federal and state authorities, resolving claims over the bank’s sales of mortgage-backed securities that collapsed during the U.S. housing crisis. It is the largest settlement ever ...

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