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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Taco Bell | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $1,500,000 |
| Bank of America | Bank of America | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $4,100,000 |
| Sports Authority | Dick's Sporting Goods | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $1,300,000 |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises | Royal Caribbean Cruises | entertainment | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $14,200,000 |
| Jack in the Box | Jack in the Box Inc. | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $9,300,000 |
| Thomas & Betts | ABB Ltd. | utilities and power generation | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $698,610 |
| Alcoa Inc. (now Arconic) | Apollo Global Management | private equity (including portfolio companies) | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,482,000 |
| South Central Bell | AT&T | telecommunications | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,000,000 |
| ConAgra Poultry | JBS | food products | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,933,823 |
| Gap Inc. | Gap Inc. | retailing | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $538,000 |
| Mallinckrodt Inc. | Mallinckrodt | pharmaceuticals | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $650,561 |
| Metropolitan Life | MetLife | financial services | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons | Chatham Asset Management | financial services | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $15,000,000 |
| United Parcel Service | United Parcel Service | freight and logistics | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,900,000 |
| Consolidated Freightways | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $142,852 | ||
| TRW Automotive US | ZF Friedrichshafen | automotive parts | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,960,000 |
| ABM Industries | ABM Industries | business services | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $5,655,176 |
| Bell Atlantic-New Jersey, Inc. | Verizon Communications | telecommunications | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $1,479,320 |
| Rite Aid Corporation | Rite Aid | retailing | benefit plan administrator violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $67,760,000 |
| Providian Financial Corp. | JPMorgan Chase | financial services | benefit plan administrator violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,600,000 |
| University of California | University of California | miscellaneous services | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $18,000,000 |
| Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. | Nissan | motor vehicles | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,000,000 |
| Shell Oil Company | Shell PLC | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| Exxon Mobil | Exxon Mobil | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| ChevronTexaco | Chevron | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| Kerr-McGee | Occidental Petroleum | oil and gas | environmental violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $760,000 |
| Monsanto Co. | Bayer | chemicals | PCB violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $390,000,000 |
| Solutia Inc. | Eastman Chemical | chemicals | PCB violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Mercedes-Benz USA LLC | Mercedes-Benz Group | motor vehicles | product safety violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $32,000,000 |
| Pan American Medical Centers Inc. | WARN Act violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,250,000 | ||
| American BioScience Inc. | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $815,000 |
| Andrx Corporation | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $55,000,000 |
| Archer Daniels Midland Company | Archer Daniels Midland | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,250,000 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $65,000,000 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $220,000,000 |
| Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. | British American Tobacco | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Georgia Pacific Corporation | Koch Industries | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Hoechst Marion Roussel | Sanofi | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $55,000,000 |
| Humana Inc. | Humana | healthcare services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $100,000,000 |
| International Paper Company | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Lorillard Tobacco Co. | British American Tobacco | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Mitsubishi Corp. | Mitsubishi Corporation | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,000,000 |
| Nippon Carbon Co. Ltd | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,875,000 | ||
| Philip Morris USA Inc. | Altria | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. | Takeda Pharmaceutical | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Temple-Inland, Inc. | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,200,000 |
| Union Camp Corporation | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Aetna Inc. | CVS Health | retailing | consumer protection violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $170,000,000 |
| GEICO | Berkshire Hathaway | diversified | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $3,300,000 |
| 99 Cents Only | Ares Management | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $4,900,000 |
| Automobile Club of Southern California | American Automobile Association | miscellaneous services | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $19,500,000 |
| PSS World Medical | McKesson | wholesalers | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,875,000 |
| Longs Drug | CVS Health | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $11,000,000 |
| Progressive | Progressive | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,400,000 |
| Siltronic | Siltronic Corporation | electrical and electronic equipment | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,750,000 |
| CKE Restaurants | Roark Capital | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $9,000,000 |
| GEICO | Berkshire Hathaway | diversified | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,743,320 |
| Cheesecake Factory | Cheesecake Factory | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $4,500,000 |
| CEC Entertainment | Apollo Global Management | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $4,240,000 |
| Novellus Systems | Lam Research | electrical and electronic equipment | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,650,000 |
| Brookstone | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $1,500,000 | ||
| Group Voyagers | Group Voyagers Inc. | miscellaneous services | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $14,000,000 |
| Smart & Final | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $9,100,000 | ||
| Peet's Coffee | JAB Holding Co. | diversified | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $2,700,000 |
| Big Lots Stores | Big Lots | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
| Kash n Karry | Ahold Delhaize | retailing | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $395,000 |
| Boeing | Boeing | aerospace and military contracting | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $40,600,000 |
| Boeing | Boeing | aerospace and military contracting | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $492,000 |
| Sunoco Inc. | Energy Transfer | pipelines | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,500,000 |
| DaimlerChrylser | Stellantis | motor vehicles | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $457,109 |
| United States Pipe | Quikrete | building materials | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,550,000 |
| Spencer Press of Maine | Chatham Asset Management | financial services | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $480,552 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons | Chatham Asset Management | financial services | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $15,000,000 |
| United Airlines | United Airlines Holdings | airlines | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $200,000 |
| United Parcel Service | United Parcel Service | freight and logistics | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $556,450 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | Walmart | retailing | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $236,000 |
| Agilent Technologies | Agilent Technologies | miscellaneous manufacturing | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $5,224,273 |
| Sybase Inc. | SAP | information technology | employment discrimination | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $1,842,943 |
