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The lawsuits drove the company to declare bankruptcy in 1995, before it agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle claims from 240,000 women in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 each in 2004 ...
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC.
Related to courtroom action were offers for a cash advance on impending settlements. Another money matter related to lawsuits and impending settlements is market timing. [24] In June 2023, GSK reached a confidential settlement for one of the lawsuits related to Zantac causing cancer. [25] [26]
The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on record, [1] and Pfizer’s $2.3 billion ($3.5 billion in 2022) settlement including a record-breaking $1.3 billion criminal fine. [2]
The following is a list of the 21 largest civil settlements, reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2017, ordered by the size of the total civil settlement. Some of these matters also resolved criminal fines and penalties, listed in parentheses, but these amounts are not considered when ...
Those settlements don’t include cases in Delaware, where the company is still facing 20,000 lawsuits. SEE MORE: Pharmacists rank best over-the-counter medicines of 2024 Show comments
Johnson v. Monsanto Co. was the first lawsuit to proceed to trial over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide product causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that the exposure of glyphosate, an active ingredient in the Roundup product, caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The proposed settlement would see the company pay out $8.9bn over 25 years through a subsidiary called LTL Management, which filed for bankruptcy protection as part of the proposed offer.