UPDATE: Volkswagen would repair or buy back polluting diesel vehicles and pay each owner as much as $10,000 under a $14.7 billion deal the car maker has reached to settle lawsuits stemming from its emissions cheating scandal, a person briefed on the settlement talks said Monday. The figure would be the largest auto scandal settlement…
Car wash workers in Queens who sued their employer for withholding overtime earnings and paying them less than minimum wage have won a $130,000 settlement, the Daily News has learned. The settlement will put roughly $85,000 into the pockets of the nine workers, court documents show. “My coworkers and I are so happy that we…
A group that served as guardian of the Alamo for more than a century and the Texas General Land Office reached a settlement Friday in a dispute over ownership of about 38,000 books and artifacts that had been kept at the Texas shrine. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas filed suit in March 2015…
Ride-hailing company Lyft is one step closer to settling a class-action lawsuit from drivers who want to be treated as employees after U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco granted preliminary approval to a $27-million settlement. The sign off comes after Chhabria rejected an initial settlement offer in April of $12.5 million, saying that…
Ten police officers in a Chicago suburb are suing the town, claiming the body cameras they wore never turned off and recorded them using the restroom and changing clothes. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court says one of the officers in Round Lake Park discovered the problem while reviewing video from his camera. According…
The nation’s largest bank has agreed to pay $430 million in settlements for violations of regulatory rules that safeguard customer funds and protect against misleading disclosure statements for securities. The settlements include $415 million North Carolina-based Bank of America (BAC) will pay in response to charges that its Merrill Lynch unit misused brokerage customers’ cash…
