METCALFE — The Internal Revenue Service and the town of Metcalfe have agreed on a monthly payment plan to erase a tax debt.
The Delta Democrat Times reports the board of aldermen approved a repayment plan this week of $350 a month.
Officials said the town didn’t pay taxes on town employees for 10 years from 1999-2009. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 2,2012
Tags: courts, damages, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, settlement, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal magistrate has ruled that Transocean, Ltd. doesn’t have to make its CEO, Steve Newman, available to testify at a trial for tens of thousands of court claims spawned by the Gulf oil spill in 2010.
BP PLC, which leased the Transocean-owned rig that caught fire and sank after the deadly blowout [...] [...]
FLORA — Primos Inc. and eTAGZ have reached a settlement in its patent infringement case, according to eTAGZ.
Salt Lake City, Utah-based eTAGZ reports it sued sued Primos Inc., a company based in Flora that sells hunting-related products, for patent infringement in Jan. 2011. Primos denied the claims.
In October 2011 eTAGZ “amicably resolved” its dispute with [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 19,2012
Tags: courts, drugs, federal government, health, healthcare, healthcare benefits, law enforcement, lawsuit, medicine, pharmaceuticals, settlement, state government
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has asked the federal government to give him until Jan. 30 to file documents supporting Mississippi’s effort to keep $17 million from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies accused of inflating wholesale prices.
Alper Ozinal, spokesman for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tells the Clarion-Ledger the agency had [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 3,2012
Tags: courts, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, gas, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, petoleum, settlement
GULF OF MEXICO — BP is reiterating claims first made last April that it is entitled to payment from contractor Halliburton Energy Services for expenses and lost profits resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster.
BP’s latest filing was made yesterday in federal court in New Orleans, where complex litigation involving various companies [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 21,2011
Tags: courts, federal government, health, healthcare, healthcare benefits, insurance, law enforcement, lawsuit, settlement, state government
JACKSON — The federal government says Mississippi must turn over $17 million of a $20 million settlement with pharmaceutical companies accused of inflating wholesale prices.
Attorney General Jim Hood told The Clarion-Ledger the state doesn’t owe anything, because the companies paid the federal government under separate settlements.
“I will sue to stop (them) from double-dipping,” Hood said [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 9,2011
Tags: airports, damages, disaster, disaster recovery, environment, gas, harbors, natural gas, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, petroleum, settlement, tourism, tourists
BAY ST. LOUIS — The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission has received a $509,000 settlement with BP.
Port and harbor director Jack Zink says the commission has agreed not to sue BP over the 2010 oil spill.
Zink tells the Sea Coast Echo the damage did not come from the oil, but rather from activity at [...] [...]
SILVER SPRINGS, Md. — The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland has approved a global settlement that allows the U.S. Department of Labor to recover $7,968,744 in back wages, fringe benefits and 401(k) plan assets for more than 2,000 security guards formerly employed by USProtect Corp., a defunct Silver Spring company that provided [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 1,2011
Tags: federal government, fraud, investing, investment scam, investments, investor fruad, investors, scam, scheme, settlement, state government
JACKSON — The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and regulators from Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Carolina have appointed A.B. Data, Ltd. of Milwaukee, Wis., to distribute $200 million to investors from the regulators’ settlements with Morgan Keegan & Company and Morgan Asset Management.
The settlements resulted from an investigation of seven proprietary bond funds [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office says it has recovered $6 million from three pharmaceutical companies that misreported the price of prescription drugs for Medicaid patients.
In a statement, Attorney General Jim Hood says agreements were reached with Par Pharmaceutical Inc. and Alpharma USPD Inc. and Purepac Pharmaceutical Co., now known as Actavis MidAtlantic, LLC, [...] [...]
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