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A developer that didn’t keep its promise to install a traffic light at an intersection where a fatal car crash happened must pay the victims’ families $6 million. The developer, Crescent Resources, agreed to install a traffic light on Highway 49 in Charlotte, N.C., in exchange for Mecklenburg County allowing it to construct a lakeside community across the highway. Despite pressure from the state and county and growing complaints from residents, the developer didn’t install the signal. Three people were …

A jury has ordered the maker of the popular arthritis drug Humira to pay $2.24 million for not warning doctors about a life-threatening side effect. Delores Tietz, of Manda, N.D., was prescribed Humira for rheumatoid arthritis in October 2009 and took it for almost seven months before feeling flu-like symptoms including chest pains and fever. Her symptoms were not treated for weeks until doctors finally diagnosed her illness as histoplasmosis, a severe fungal infection that can be fatal if untreated. …

Five laid-off workers from the Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab in Livermore, Calif., won a $2.7 million jury award for wrongful termination. The verdict is just the beginning; 125 more laid-off workers are also suing for wrongful firing. The lab, which is operated as a public-private partnership of the University of California and Bechtel Corp. and largely funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, laid off 440 workers in 2008. According to Gary Gwilliam, an attorney for the 130 workers who …

A jury verdict earlier this month to mentally disabled workers who were abused and forced to live in a “house of horrors” has been drastically slashed after trial. A federal law that limits damages will cut the jury’s award from $240 million to $1.6 million. After deciding that Texas-based turkey processing plant Henry’s Turkey Service subjected the workers to abuse, discrimination and physical punishment at home and at work, the jury awarded $7.5 million to each of the 32 workers. …

Soon after a jury awarded $6.5 million to a California man who claimed the diabetes drug Actos caused him to develop bladder cancer, a court erased the verdict. Jack Cooper , 79, on April 26 won the award against Actos maker Takeda Pharmaceuticals. His lawyer, Michael Miller, had asked to speed up the trial schedule because Cooper’s bladder cancer had metastasized. Cooper, a former cable-splicer for Pacific Bell Telephone Co., is a borderline diabetic and had taken the drug for five …