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Tens of thousands of people may have received an unexpected check in the mail in recent weeks as a result of a years long legal battle over the state’s effort to fight citrus canker disease in the early 2000’s/ NBC 6 Responds’ Alina Machado has the latest.

Matthew Wilson still vividly remembers the fruit of the citrus trees that used to sit in the backyard of his childhood home. “You remember the key lime pies,” he said. “Fresh orange juice squeezed in the morning, grapefruits when we wanted them, just had to get them off the tree.” Matt, who works at NBC 6 and grew up in…

Juul Labs has reached settlements covering more than 5,000 cases brought by about 10,000 plaintiffs over the e-cigarette company’s marketing practices that have been blamed for the teenage vaping crisis.

Due to a glitch in Hertz’s system, the company mistakenly accused customers of stealing rented cars.

NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone details how lawyers for the victims of the Surfside Collapse got a major victory for the victims

A Florida judge has given initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died. The quick settlement Saturday of the unprecedented collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South building means that potentially years of court battles will...

People who owned condominiums in the Surfside building that collapsed nearly a year ago but did not suffer a loss of life among the 98 people who died will share at least $96 million from a court settlement, a judge said Tuesday.

Owners of about 50 of the 136 units that were destroyed in the Champlain Towers South collapse are asking that a judge consider increasing their settlement amount, now that the overall recovery amount could top $1.1 billion.

The historic settlement in the Sandy Hook case against Remington created a template for how to hold gunmakers liable for their products. Here’s why it’s unlikely to unleash a flood of lawsuits

A man who has owned hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $4.5 million in connection to a lawsuit concerning his sexual harassment of tenants and housing applicants for more than 15 years, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Joseph Centanni, 74, of Mountainside, was charged over the summer with sexual…

You’ve probably received an email, or maybe even a notice in the mail, saying you may be able to file a claim for a class action lawsuit settlement. Chances are, though, you probably didn’t follow through.

Local prosecutors have reached a $2 million settlement with a New Orleans man who spent 23 years in prison before being cleared on charges including rape and manslaughter

A four-year community dispute ended this spring when the town of Hillsborough quietly agreed to pay a $125,000 settlement to the owner of the “Flintstone house” in a dispute over her yard display.

The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announced Friday it has settled a lawsuit against the city for $4.5 million, NBC reports. Alton Sterling was 37 when he was fatally shot by an officer in 2016. His family filed the suit the next year. Lawyers for Sterling’s relatives said that the settlement…

A federal appeals court has upheld a $25 million award against agribusiness giant Monsanto in a lawsuit that alleged a California man developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weed killer

A photojournalist won a settlement in his lawsuit against D.C. police, who he says violated his civil rights by arresting him as he covered a Black Lives Matter protest in August.

A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging without the permission of its users

Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state.

Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018

The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago have reached a $13.5 million settlement with the university.