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A Madison doctor has agreed to pay $110,000 to settle allegations that he wrote unnecessary opioid prescriptions.

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Two dairy farms and a cheese cooperative have settled water pollution and wastewater violations for $190,000.

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A Wisconsin manufacturing company will pay nearly $172,000 over violations of state air laws at its Janesville operation.

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A factory farm in Kewaunee County has agreed to pay the state $144,000 to resolve pollution violations.

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A California company has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to resolve allegations that it had paid a marketing company to refer it genetic testing for Wisconsin nursing-home patients.

A company that makes fire-fighting foam containing so-called forever chemicals known as PFAS reached a $17.5 million settlement on Thursday with northern Wisconsin residents over contamination from the chemicals.

Wisconsin joined in a nationwide $86.3 million agreement with Nationstar Mortgage to resolve allegations that the company's practices caused problems for thousands of homeowners.

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Hupy and Abraham attorney Ramzy Halaby has reached a $100,000 settlement for a client hurt in a Dane County car accident.

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Milwaukee law firm Kohner, Mann & Kailas has reached a $15 million settlement in a massive natural-gas antitrust lawsuit, the largest to date in the case's 13 years of litigation.

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Wisconsin Public Service Corp. has agreed to clean up contamination at a former manufactured gas plant site in northern Wisconsin. On Friday, Judge William Griesbach of the Eastern District of Wisconsin approved a settlement requiring WPS to dredge and dispose of ...

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Wisconsin and 47 other U.S. states and territories have reached an $85 million settlement with Honda over faulty airbag systems in the company’s cars. Attorney General Josh Kaul and attorneys general from throughout the U.S. were investigating whether American Honda Motor ...

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A retired Wisconsin physician has agreed to pay $70,000 to resolve allegations that he improperly prescribed opioids to patients and told them how to successfully fill various opioid prescriptions at once.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with the garbage-disposal giant Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc. over allegedly illegal hazardous-waste practices at a landfill in Franklin. The proposed settlement, announced on Thursday, calls for increased monitoring for hazardous waste near ...

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The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee signed off on four more legal settlements under the state's lame-duck laws in a whirlwind meeting on Tuesday.

The Department of Justice is suing Kohl's Department Stores for withholding information about identity theft perpetrators.

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A Milwaukee pain management clinic has agreed to pay at least $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its doctor ordered unnecessary drug tests for patients in exchange for kickbacks from the testing company.

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A jury awarded a man more than $1.9 million for injuries he sustained from a Milwaukee Police officer during a traffic stop.

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The Milwaukee law firm Kohner, Mann & Kailas has prevailed in a $17 million counterclaim filed against a client in a breach-of-agreement lawsuit spanning nearly six years.

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A $100,000 settlement was reached in a car-crash case in Dane County on Jan. 28, 2019.

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A company doing business as TMJ & Orofacial Pain Treatment Centers of Wisconsin will pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the centers submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE, a health-care provider for service members and their families.

Republicans who control the Legislature's budget committee signed off Thursday on the state's first settlement under laws that granted them oversight of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's legal negotiations.

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A $100,000 settlement was reached in a car-crash case in Dane County on Jan. 28, 2019.

A $65,000 settlement was reached in a slip-and-fall case in La Crosse County in March.

The parties in auto-injury case in Milwaukee County agreed to a $250,000 settlement in May.

An opioid manufacturer has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve federal investigations into allegations that it paid kickbacks and used other illegal marketing tactics to sell a powerful fentanyl spray, authorities said Wednesday.

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Milwaukee County paid nearly $7 million to settle a lawsuit from the family of a man whose dehydration death in jail was described by his attorneys as torture.

A Hudson family injured during a 2013 parade accident has settled a lawsuit against the Shriners.

Wisconsin's attorney general says a Milwaukee hospital will pay $360,000 to settle a lawsuit for improperly disposing of pharmaceutical hazardous waste from 2013 to 2016.

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and its private foundation have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement as part of a bankruptcy case related to five building projects.

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An internet troll who harassed a black college student with racist messages on social media has agreed to a court settlement requiring him to get "anti-hate training," apologize in writing and on video and publicly renounce white supremacy.