Using an army of bots and stolen identities, Devumi sold likes and social media influence for years. But a series of settlements this week puts caps on a burgeoning and worrisome new industry.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was recently awarded $580,000 in a jury trial regarding an incident in 2017 where his neighbor attacked him, breaking several of his ribs.
Allison Irwin called officers to her house, stating her husband Chad was expressing suicidal thoughts. Chad was ultimately fatally shot in a confrontation. Now, Sacramento County will pay $7 million in a wrongful death lawsuit settlement.
Motel 6 might pay millions to former guests at two of its Phoenix-area outlets. However, a federal judge involved in proceedings wants attorneys to supply more information before signing off on the massive award.
Three of the ‘Englewood Four’ men who were exonerated after DNA evidence linked a convicted murderer to the crime they were imprisoned for have entered into a settlement agreement with Cook County, Illinois.
Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California, will pay $2.95 million in a lawsuit alleging it shortchanged the hourly pay of employees. The most recent settlement stems from litigation filed in 2014 by Jeanette Munden, a former Los Robles nurse who alleged her hourly pay was routinely rounded in a way that short-changed her check.
Jacksonville resident, Kalil McCoy, was shot and killed by Frederick Wade after the two got into an argument while they were riding in a vehicle with four of their friends. The McCoy estate has been awarded $495,123,680 in their subsequent wrongful death lawsuiti.
The City of Atlanta has reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving a collision with a police officer that caused a woman to have her arm amputated.
Nine tenants who once lived in the Hacienda apartment complex in the city of Richmond recently won a $658,000 settlement from the city over allegations that they had to live in terrible living conditions for years.
New York will pay the family of Kalief Browder $3.3 million. Browder, imprisoned at Rikers Island for three years without a trial, hung himself in 2015. His death prompted city officials to enact numerous reforms.