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Company: American Standard
Penalty: $9,000,000
Year: 2017
Date: September 18, 2017
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: product safety violation
Violation Description: Sloan Valve Co. and American Standard entered into an $18 million settlement to resolve class action litigation concerning pressurized flushing mechanisms that could cause toilets to crack or burst explosively. The settlement did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume the total was divided evenly between them
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Central District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 2:12cv6878
Case Name: United Desert Charities et al v. Flushmate et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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