Pfizer has avoided a bellwether trial scheduled to begin this month in the Chantix multidistrict litigation by settling with an Alabama man who claimed he became suicidal after taking the smoking-cessation drug. It marks the second time in three months ...

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BUFFALO — A settlement has been reached in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Darien Lake Theme Park by the family of a double amputee Iraq veteran killed when he fell out of the Ride of Steel roller coaster in July ...

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The New York Bar Foundation has been awarded $17,500 in leftover proceeds from a class-action lawsuit to distribute to law-related charities around the state. Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

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BUFFALO — A New York woman who spent more than 13 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her teenage daughter has reached a $2.7 million settlement with the state. Buffalo media outlets report that Lynn DeJac Peters ...

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ALBANY — Authorities have reached a $210 million settlement with BNY Mellon subsidiary Ivy Asset Management for advising clients to invest with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, whose multibillion-dollar fraud landed him in federal prison, New York Attorney General Eric ...

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A $9.5 million settlement of a consumer class action against Facebook was sufficiently adequate to be approved, even if it represented only a fraction of what some class members claimed they could recover in individual lawsuits, the 9th Circuit has ...

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ALBANY — An $18 million settlement has been reached between New York and a food company that serves 39 school and public lunch programs statewide after an investigation into seven years of overcharges. The settlement with Compass Group USA Inc. ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-nine states have reached a $151 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging one of the country’s largest drug wholesalers inflated prices for hundreds of prescription drugs, officials said Friday. The agreement with San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. settles ...

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Two separate settlements with Illinois-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories were announced Monday by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. The cases involve the marketing and sale of the anti-seizure drug Depakote for unapproved uses. The first is a $1.5 billion global ...

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office has reached a settlement with Excellus BlueCross BlueShield that requires the health insurer to process claims for routine childhood screenings for lead and provide refunds to consumers who paid ...

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Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Thursday announced a $136 million settlement for New York with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers over foreclosure abuses, the most per “underwater” borrower of any state in the nation, and the fourth highest dollar ...

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TRENTON, N.J. — Just three months before the world’s second-best-selling drug gets U.S. generic competition, a generic company has paid nearly $445 million to finally end a decadelong, twist-filled patent infringement battle with two heavyweight drugmakers over blood thinner Plavix. ...

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