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The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [1] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base — as well as many international, particularly British, [2] assignees — bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations ...
On August 10, 2022, President Biden signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022, allowing victims to sue for sicknesses related to water contamination at Camp Lejeune. [45] Straw has renewed his several claims for compensation. Straw v. United States, 7:23-cv-162-BO-BM (E.D.N.C.) (Camp LeJeune Justice Act lawsuit, docketed 2/21/2023). [46]
The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on record, [1] and Pfizer’s $2.3 billion ($3.5 billion in 2022) settlement including a record-breaking $1.3 billion criminal fine. [2]
3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to resolve roughly 300,000 lawsuits alleging that the manufacturing company ... said the agreement will result in an approximately $4.2 billion pre-tax charge ...
As of May 2023, nearly $4.6 billion in compensation and $450 million in attorneys’ fees have been awarded. [3] The following table shows the awards by main classes of vaccines made to victims in the years 2006-2017. [23] This shows that on average 1.2 awards were made per million vaccine doses.
List of former United States Army medical units; NORMASH, a Norwegian MASH unit during the Korean War. 45th Portable Surgical Hospital; Battle Circus (1953 movie) Combat Support Hospital; Field hospital; MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968 novel) M*A*S*H (1970 movie) M*A*S*H (1972–1983 TV series)
In 2020, a judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Erie approved a $4.5 million settlement that ended 11 lawsuits related to a MRSA outbreak at Tri-State in 2017. The $4.5 million represented the amount ...
That move paid off when she eventually negotiated a separate settlement for California; in 2012, the banks presented the state $18.4 billion in debt relief and $2 billion in other forms of ...