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Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount |
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Rent-A-Center | Rent-A-Center | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $3,000,000 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Caterpillar | Caterpillar Inc. | heavy equipment | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,303 |
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 |
Laboratory Corporation of America | Laboratory Corp. of America | healthcare services | consumer protection violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,000,000 |
Petco Animal Supplies | CVC Capital Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $2,500,000 |
United Parcel Service | United Parcel Service | freight and logistics | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $18,000,000 |
Ditech | Ditech Holding Corporation | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,150,000 |
Perdue Farms | Perdue | food products | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
RadioShack | RadioShack | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $29,900,000 |
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,000,000 | ||
Silicon Graphics | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | information technology | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $5,500,000 |
Jo-Ann Stores | Leonard Green & Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $6,500,000 |
Coast National Insurance | Zurich Insurance | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $18,000,000 |
Starbucks | Starbucks | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $18,000,000 |
Tropicana Products | PAI Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | employment discrimination | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $816,815 |
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 |
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 |
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 | ||
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 |
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 |
Archer Daniels Midland Company | Archer Daniels Midland | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,250,000 |
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 |
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 |
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 |