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Motive Inc. the leading software service provider has today announced that the company is satisfied in the settlement of the Merger Agreement with the Alcatel-Lucent Inc.

Airborne Inc., has decided to go for a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over older advertising and labeling of its dietary supplement products. Airborne has denied wrongdoing or illegal conduct in both the class action and before the Federal Trade Commission, but reached an agreement with the FTC and agreed to settle the class [...]

Finally a lawsuit settlement that is likely to bring smile in faces of the thousands of brain injury patients in America. In a breakthrough lawsuit settlement of its kind, the brain injury patients will get a chance to step out of the hospital to live in a separate community of their own made by themselves

In a major lawsuit of its kind, three immigrants from Iraq are given the citizenship status in US District Court. All three has filed the lawsuit challenging the delay in the citizenship procedure that takes three year to complete. The preliminary settlement reached Monday in U.S. District Court before Judge Marsha Pechman.

The Cape Town lawyers have decided to take the help of a British company to set up a settlement scheme to pay compensation to the hundreds of the South Africans effected by the asbestos poisoning.

In a major lawsuit of its kind, the family of a 19 month girl has won the Govt compensation for the vaccine that has been allegedly responsible for autism in the child. The lawsuit has been featured in the New York Times on March 8, 2008.

Asbestos lawsuit is one of the major types of lawsuits the USA faces almost every year. Thousands of people fall prey to asbestos exposure every year.

The Tremont Financial LLC has agreed to go for a settlement in the payday lender class action lawsuit with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School students and the school’s Consumer Law Litigation Clinic. The class action was brought against Tremont Financial for violating certain provisions of Wisconsin’s Consumer Act and other common law provisions. Tremont [...]

The Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, has finally approved the settlement of the Class Action between the Ford Focus and the California owners. The settlement will provide reimbursement to California owners and lessees of the 2000 and 2001 Ford Focus for front brake repairs. Under the settlement, the Ford is will make full [...]

It seems the trouble time for Merck is far from being over. After the billion dollar American settlements, the drug maker is facing yet another lawsuit. A Canadian court has certified another class-action lawsuit against Merck & Co. over its former painkiller Vioxx.