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Violation Tracker Current Parent Company Summary
Current Parent Company Name: Willis Towers Watson
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol Nasdaq: WLTW)
Headquartered in: United Kingdom
Major Industry: financial services
Specific Industry: insurance
Penalty total since 2000: $91,437,324
Number of records: 11
| Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined) | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| competition-related offenses | $53,727,272 | 2 |
| employment-related offenses | $34,420,224 | 7 |
| consumer-protection-related offenses | $2,600,000 | 1 |
| government-contracting-related offenses | $689,828 | 1 |
| Top 5 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | $53,727,272 | 2 |
| employment discrimination | $24,352,987 | 2 |
| benefit plan administrator violation | $9,200,000 | 1 |
| consumer protection violation | $2,600,000 | 1 |
| wage and hour violation | $776,237 | 3 |
Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the
Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.
Links: Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found
here.
For an overview of assistance this company is receiving under the CARES Act, see its Covid Stimulus Watch summary page
here.
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case.
| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  . |
| Willis Group Holdings Ltd. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2005 | NY-AG | $50,000,000 |
| Willis Group | employment discrimination | 2008 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,757,949 |
| Willis Group | employment discrimination | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,595,038 |
| Towers Perrin | benefit plan administrator violation | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,200,000 |
| Willis Group Holdings Ltd. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2012 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,727,272 |
| Willis Group Holdings Ltd. | consumer protection violation | 2007 | FL-AG | $2,600,000 |
| Watson Wyatt & Company | False Claims Act and related | 2005 | USAO | $689,828 |
| Towers Perrin | wage and hour violation | 2004 | WHD | $376,093 |
| Towers, Perrin, Forrester & Crosby | wage and hour violation | 2005 | WHD | $294,279 |
| Towers Perrin | wage and hour violation | 2005 | WHD | $105,865 |
| Watson Wyatt & Co. | labor relations violation | 2005 | NLRB | $91,000 |
