The $787.5 million settlement by Fox News with Dominion Voting Systems may be eye-popping, but it’s not the only one levied recently. Here’s a snapshot:
Both CNN and the Washington Post settled with teenager Nicholas Sandmann in 2019. The high schooler was on a field trip to D.C. with his class from Covington Catholic in Kentucky when he was taped wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat after an anti-abortion rally where he was falsely accused of getting into a racially charged confrontation with a Native American activist.
Video later showed it was Sandmann and classmates who were being harassed. He sued CNN and the Post for millions.
The social-media giant was sued and settled in 2021 for $650 million for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users, according to The Guardian.
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was filed in 1998 against Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Lorillard. It changed the way cigarettes are marketed — with cancer warnings ubiquitous.
Volkswagen emissions scandal cost the car company $14.7 billion.
A $3.4 billion payout. That dates back to the 1990s and warnings about links to cancer persist today.
Vaping giant Juul was hit with a $462 million bill for its alleged role in the youth vaping epidemic — with Massachusetts to receive $41 million, the Herald reported last week.
The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers and crew linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The New Mexico judge said the right to privacy for Hutchins’ 10-year-old son overrides obligations for public disclosure and ordered that settlement documents and approval hearings be sealed in the civil lawsuit that argues that Baldwin and other film crewmembers ignored industry gun safety standards on the set of the Western film “Rust” ahead of the 2021 shooting.