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Purdue Pharma deal has families deflated, angry but hopeful

March 7, 2022 | Associated Press

For those who lost loved ones in the opioid crisis, making sure the family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma paid a price was never just about money. What many wanted was a chance to confront the Sackler family face to face, to make them feel their pain. While some may get that chance — at least by video — under a tentative settlement reached Thursday that also would force the Sacklers to pay out billions, the families still are coming away feeling empty, conflicted and angry yet again.

J&J, distributors finalize $26B landmark opioid settlement

February 25, 2022 | Associated Press

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis Friday, an announcement that clears the way for $26 billion to flow to nearly every state and local government in the U.S.

Sandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington

February 16, 2022 | Associated Press

The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting announced Tuesday they have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.

Central Indiana fair housing group to get $1M in Fannie Mae settlement

February 8, 2022 | Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indianapolis Business Journal

The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana and 20 other fair housing organizations across the country announced Monday that they have reached a $53 million agreement with Fannie Mae to settle a discrimination suit.

Michigan settlement lets faith agencies deny LGBT adoptions

January 26, 2022 | Associated Press

Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court Tuesday, months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a Catholic charity in a similar case.

Indiana recovers $316K from settlement of Medicaid fraud kickback scheme

January 21, 2022 | IL Staff

The Indiana Medicaid program has recovered more than $316,000 in funds from a $4.9 million resolution of allegations against PharMerica Inc., one of the nation’s largest long-term care pharmacies, after 14 years of litigation.

Settlement reached in redlining lawsuit against Old National Bank

December 17, 2021 | Marilyn Odendahl

Evansville-based Old National Bank has settled allegations of redlining against Black residents in Indianapolis, agreeing to originate more than $27 million in loans to qualified Black applicants and contributing more than $3 million to create programs to help Black homeseekers secure mortgages and to invest in majority-Black neighborhoods.

Cities wracked by opioids close to getting $26B settlement

December 15, 2021 | Associated Press

Thousands of towns across the United States are on the precipice of receiving billions of dollars in the second-biggest legal settlement in U.S. history. The $26 billion from three drug distributors and a pharmaceutical manufacturer would address damage wrought by opioids.

USA Gymnastics reaches $380M settlement with Nassar victims

December 13, 2021 | Associated Press

The legal wrangling between Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics and the victims of sexual abuse by former national team doctor Larry Nassar, among others, is over. The fight for substantive change within the sport’s national governing body is just beginning.

Preliminary hearing for 3 charged in duck boat accident that killed 9 Indy residents

December 9, 2021 | Associated Press

Three men charged after a tourist boat sank in Missouri during a 2018 storm, killing 17 people, were in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing to determine if the criminal case against them will proceed.

Ex-hospital employee’s unauthorized access to patient info leaves genuine questions of fact, COA rules

December 8, 2021 | Katie Stancombe

A hospital group and its former employee at odds over her unauthorized access of confidential patient records aren’t quite finished with their legal battle, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday.

BP agrees to $500K penalty, soot limits at Indiana refinery

December 3, 2021 | Associated Press

Oil giant BP agreed Thursday to pay a $512,450 penalty and reduce soot emissions from its Whiting refinery in Indiana under an agreement with regulators and activists who accused the company of violating an earlier deal.

State secures reversal in Carmel residents’ inverse condemnation action

December 1, 2021 | Katie Stancombe

No settlement agreement was reached between the state of Indiana and two Carmel landowners who brought an inverse condemnation action costing the state more than $200,000, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a Wednesday reversal.

Woman’s early release in deadly Rochester school bus crash denied

November 30, 2021 | Associated Press

A judge on Monday blocked the early prison release of a woman convicted in a 2018 crash that killed three siblings who were crossing a rural northern Indiana highway to board a school bus.

Families of Rochester children killed, injured boarding bus get $3.5M

November 18, 2021 | Associated Press

A northern Indiana school district paid nearly $3.5 million to the families of three children who died and a fourth child who was seriously injured in 2018 when a pickup truck plowed into them as they crossed a rural highway to board a school bus.

Judge OKs $626 million settlement in Flint water litigation

November 11, 2021 | Associated Press

A judge on Wednesday approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by Flint residents who found their tap water contaminated by lead following disastrous decisions to switch the city’s water source and a failure to swiftly acknowledge the problem.

Suit alleging autistic girl restrained in LaPorte class is settled

October 14, 2021 | Associated Press

An Indiana couple who accused staffers at an elementary school four years ago of strapping their autistic then-7-year-old daughter into a homemade restraining chair in the classroom have settled their lawsuit against the district, the couple announced.

StubHub agrees to refund payments for canceled events

September 15, 2021 | IL Staff

Indiana has reached a settlement with an online ticket provider allowing Hoosiers to get cash refunds for tickets they purchased to concerts and sporting events that were then canceled because of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Indiana recovers $1.8M in national settlement with drug manufacturer

September 9, 2021 | IL Staff

Indiana Medicaid has recovered $1.8 million as part of a $75 million national civil settlement with New York-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., which allegedly overcharged Medicaid programs for drugs for almost a decade.

Companies: $26B settlement of opioid lawsuits to move ahead

September 7, 2021 | Associated Press

Four companies in the drug industry said Saturday that enough states had agreed to a settlement of lawsuits over the opioid crisis for them to move ahead with the $26 billion deal.

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