Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay $11 billion to a group of insurance companies representing most of the claims from Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018 as the company tries to emerge from bankruptcy, the utility announced ...

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A class action lawsuit against Quik Cash has been settled for nearly $25 million in debt forgiveness and cash payments.

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A St. Louis personal injury case involving a pothole, a church, a private school and plat maps dating to the 1800s settled at mediation for $380,000.

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The medical services provider for St. Louis’ medium security jail settled a lawsuit filed by a nurse who alleged the company is responsible for her brain damage.

The terms are confidential. The case had been scheduled to go to trial Monday.

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Pfizer Inc. and its bankrupt Quigley Co. unit are close to a settlement with a group of alleged asbestos victims that would resolve the drugmaker’s liability for billions of dollars in potential claims, a lawyer said.

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P.F. Chang’s China Bistro in Kansas City has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit with a former waitress whose claims were slated to go to trial this week in Independence.

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A settlement in a class action case against Enterprise Rent-A-Car vehicles  that was derided by objectors has been deemed good enough by St. Louis County Circuit Judge Maura B. McShane. In a Nov. 23 judgment, McShane wrote that both sides ...

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A university and the federal government have agreed to resolve a lawsuit over taxing medical residents.

Saint Louis University sued the U.S. government last fall alleging it overpaid $24.6 million in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 1995 through March 2005.

Several other teaching medical programs have made similar claims, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which sued seeking a nearly $25 million refund.

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A federal judge gave final approval Thursday to a $16.5 million settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against Caterpillar Inc. over fees in its 401(k) plans. The class consists of about 80,000 people, current and former plan participants dating ...

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A former charter school student has reached a confidential settlement with Imagine College Preparatory High School and its employees for a beating he allegedly endured at the hands of a St. Louis police officer. The student – who was 16 ...

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Missouri will receive $1.2 million of a multistate settlement against pharmaceutical companies Abbott Laboratories and Fournier. The lawsuit filed by 23 states and the District of Columbia alleged that the companies had conspired to thwart generic competition of its medication ...

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