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While resolving a legal dispute can bring a sense of relief, it is important to make sure that you can live with the terms of the settlement agreement... While resolving a legal dispute can bring a sense of relief, it is important to make sure that you can live with the terms of the settlement […]

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Inc. (Horizon) will alter its business practices and pay $2.5 million in attorney’s fees under the terms of a class action settlement approved in federal court last week. The suit alleged the insurance company under-reimbursed health plan subscribers for out-of-network services in violation of the Employee Retirement […]

It turns out reports of the death of  “neither admit nor deny” settlements between the Second Circuit Court and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were greatly exaggerated. In a much-anticipated decision, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed the ruling of Judge Jed. S. Rakoff, who had refused to approve the agency’s consent […]

A daughter’s ill-advised Facebook post recently cost her father $80,000 of his settlement in an age-discrimination case. As has been widely reported in the media, Gulliver Preparatory School agreed to pay Patrick Snay, 69, an $80,000 lump-sum payment to resolve alleged violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and retaliation. However, four days […]

Video game producer Electronic Arts Sports and Collegiate Licensing Company have agreed to pay out roughly $40 million to former players whose likenesses were used without authorization and compensation. The settlement agreement will settle disputes against EA Sports and CLC, leaving the National Collegiate Athletic Association as the lone defendant in the controversial sports law dispute. […]

World Wrestling Entertainment and the widow of deceased WWE Champion Owen Hart have reached a settlement nearly 14 years after the wrestler’s death. Martha Hart and WWE confirmed that they reached a settlement agreement after Hart brought a lawsuit against the company in June 2010. Hart sued the company for violating a sports law contract […]