Wal-Mart has agreed to a settlement amount of nearly $2 million dollars in the “Black Friday” incident that resulted in one death and injury to eleven others in their Nassau, New York store. By doing so they will not face criminal charges that were being sought, and could have only resulted in a $10,000 fine. What does this mean to the survivor’s family and others’ who were injured?

Residents of Libby, Montana, home to the largest asbestos poisoning disasters in the U.S., received a bit of good news after the company responsible for causing thousands of asbestos-related injuries agreed to pay $250 million toward the cleanup effort.