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This photo taken on Dec. 25, 2012 shows the president of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor, Akio Toyoda, speaking to the press in Tokyo. (credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

Attorney: Toyota Reaches $1 Billion Settlement In Recall Case

With a proposed payout of more than $1 billion, one major chapter of a nearly four-year legal saga that left Toyota Motor Corp. fighting hundreds of lawsuits and struggling with a tarnished image has ended, though another remains.

2012/12/27

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HSBC To Pay $1.9B Money-Laundering Settlement For Iran, Drug Cartel Dealings

HSBC, the British banking giant, said Tuesday it will pay $1.9 billion to settle a money-laundering probe by federal and state authorities in the United States.

2012/12/11

File photo of railroad tracks. (Photo by RAYMOND ROIG/AFP/GettyImages)

OSHA Orders Norfolk Southern To Pay Whistleblowers

Federal authorities have ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to pay three whistleblowers more than $800,000 for firing workers who reported injuries on the job.

2012/06/19

Television personality Kim Kardashian attends a press conference announcing the partnership between Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner and SKECHERS at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Nov. 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, Calif. (credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

Skechers To Pay $40M Settlement For Claiming Shoes Help Lose Weight

The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers’ fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian’s curves or Brooke Burke’s toned tush.

2012/05/16

Coal miner Terry Cooper (2nd-L) embraces his wife Michelle (L), daughter Tera (2nd-R) and son Justin (R), during a candlelight vigil to honor the coal miners that were killed, on April 10, 2010 in Montocal, W.Va. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

West Virginia Coal Mine Disaster Nets $210M Settlement

The owner of a West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men will pay nearly $210 million in a historic settlement arising from the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in decades.

2011/12/06

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