Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the current parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year  | Agency | Penalty Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ralphs Grocery | Kroger | retailing | employment discrimination | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $6,550,000 |
| Tropicana Products | PAI Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | employment discrimination | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $816,815 |
| Corporate Express | Sycamore Partners Management | private equity (including portfolio companies) | employment discrimination | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $2,900,000 |
| SBC Communications | AT&T | telecommunications | benefit plan administrator violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
| Sears Group Life Insurance | Sears | retailing | benefit plan administrator violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $28,000,000 |
| Shell Oil Co. | Shell PLC | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $28,000,000 |
| Lyondell Chemical | LyondellBasell Industries | chemicals | MTBE violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $4,000,000 |
| Met-Coil Systems Corporation and Mestek Inc. | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 | ||
| Dow Chemical Company | Dow Inc. | chemicals | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $3,250,000 |
| CSX | CSX | railroads | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $220,000,000 |
| Sulzer Medica | Zimmer Biomet | medical equipment and supplies | drug or medical equipment safety violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,000,000,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson | Johnson & Johnson | pharmaceuticals | drug or medical equipment safety violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,000,000 |
| American Home Products | Pfizer | pharmaceuticals | drug or medical equipment safety violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,750,000,000 |
| Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | Ajinomoto | food products | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $58,000,000 |
| Chisso Corporation | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 | ||
| Degussa AG | Evonik Industries | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 |
| DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $44,500,000 |
| E. Merck KG | Merck KGaA (EMD) | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Mitsui & Co. | Mitsui | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 |
| Rhone-Poulenc SA | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 | ||
| U.S. Tobacco Co. | Altria | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,050,000,000 |
| Ueno Fine Chemicals, Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,500,000 | ||
| Behr Process Corp. | Masco | housewares and home furnishings | consumer protection violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $107,500,000 |
| CSK Auto | O'Reilly Automotive | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $8,800,000 |
| Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis | AT&T | telecommunications | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,000,000 |
| BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles | Coca-Cola Co. | beverages | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $20,200,000 |
| Bank of America | Bank of America | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $22,000,000 |
| Eckerd | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 |
| Pizza Hut | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
| Taco Bell | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $13,000,000 |
| Farmers Insurance Exchange | Farmers Insurance Exchange | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $90,009,208 |
| Rite Aid | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $25,000,000 |
| Perdue Farms | Perdue | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,400,000 |
| U-Haul | AMERCO | miscellaneous services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $7,500,000 |
| Frito-Lay | PepsiCo | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,900,000 |
| Microsoft | Microsoft | information technology | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $97,000,000 |
| American Cast Iron Pipe Co. | American Cast Iron Pipe Co. | miscellaneous manufacturing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,000,000 |
| Caterpillar | Caterpillar Inc. | heavy equipment | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,303 |
| Coca-Cola Company | Coca-Cola Co. | beverages | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $192,500,000 |
| Freightliner Corp | Daimler Truck AG | motor vehicles | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $365,268 |
| Dillard's Inc. | Dillard's | retailing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,600,000 |
| FMC Corp | FMC Corp. | chemicals | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,100,000 |
| General Electric | General Electric | diversified | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $450,172 |
| L.L. Bean | L.L. Bean | retailing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $215,000 |
| McKesson Corporation | McKesson | wholesalers | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $495,000 |
| Meijer Inc. | Meijer | retailing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $166,467 |
| Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing | Mitsubishi Motors | motor vehicles | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,200,000 |
| Publix Super Markets | Publix Super Markets | retailing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,500,000 |
| Hughes STX | RTX Corporation | aerospace and military contracting | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $396,599 |
| Sears, Roebuck | Sears | retailing | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,559,717 |
| TRW Inc. | Northrop Grumman | aerospace and military contracting | benefit plan administrator violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $48,500,000 |
| Exxon Corporation | Exxon Mobil | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $12,000,000 |
| Chevron Corp. | Chevron | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
| Akzo Nobel | Carlyle Group | private equity (including portfolio companies) | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,500,000 |
| Beaulieu of America | Engineered Floors | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,700,000 |
| Christie's Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,000,000 | ||
| Mohawk Industries, Inc. | Mohawk Industries | housewares and home furnishings | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $13,500,000 |
| Shaw Industries Inc. | Berkshire Hathaway | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $27,500,000 |
| Sotheby's Inc. | Sotheby's | miscellaneous services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,000,000 |
| UCB Chemicals Corporation | UCB | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,000,000 |
| MBNA Corp. | Bank of America | financial services | consumer protection violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,700,000 |
| Laboratory Corporation of America | Laboratory Corp. of America | healthcare services | consumer protection violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,000,000 |
| WorldCom Inc. | Verizon Communications | telecommunications | consumer protection violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $88,000,000 |
| Rent-A-Center | Rent-A-Center | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $3,000,000 |
| Dominick's Finer Foods | Albertsons Companies | retailing | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,775,000 |
| Time Warner Entertainment | Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. | media | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $244,500 |
| Caesar's Atlantic City Hotel | VICI Properties | entertainment | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $552,425 |
| Ford Motor | Ford Motor | motor vehicles | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,000,000 |
| General Dynamics | General Dynamics | aerospace and military contracting | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $300,000 |
| Norfolk Southern | Norfolk Southern | railroads | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $28,000,000 |
| Rent-A-Center Inc | Rent-A-Center | retailing | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,100,000 |
| Sears | Sears | retailing | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $519,068 |
| Winn-Dixie Stores | Aldi | retailing | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $32,020,000 |
| Unisys Corp. | Unisys | information technology | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,494,000 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $169,625 |
| Consolidated Freightways | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $800,000 | ||
| Vons | Albertsons Companies | retailing | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $5,217,000 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance | Liberty Mutual Insurance | financial services | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $348,111 |
| Toyota Technical Center USA Inc. | Toyota | motor vehicles | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $6,388,087 |
| American General Life Insurance | American International Group | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $214,000,000 |
| AFG Industries Inc. | AGC Inc. | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $19,800,000 |
| Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Sanofi | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| BASF AG | BASF | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,000,000 |
| BASF AG | BASF | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd. | Daicel | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $16,000,000 |
| Daiichi Pharmaceutical | Daiichi Sankyo | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Eastman Chemical Company | Eastman Chemical | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Eisai Company | Eisai | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Guardian Industries Corp. | Koch Industries | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $16,900,000 |
| Hoechst AG | Sanofi | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $37,000,000 |
| Hoffmann-La Roche | Roche | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $130,000,000 |
| Nippon Gohsei Industries, Ltd. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,200,000 | ||
| Pilkington North America Inc. | Nippon Sheet Glass | miscellaneous manufacturing | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Takeda Chemical | Takeda Pharmaceutical | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Providian Financial Corp. | JPMorgan Chase | financial services | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $105,000,000 |
| Quest Diagnostics Inc. | Quest Diagnostics | healthcare services | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
| Western Union Co. | Western Union | financial services | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $375,000,000 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $82,000,000 |
