(CBS) LOS ANGELES Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay more than $3.9 million in overtime wages, waiting-time penalties and interest to about 50,000 workers throughout California, the state Labor Commission announced Tuesday.

Atlanta is poised to pay $7.5 million to more than 100 police officers who filed a class action lawsuit contending they were not paid for overtime work. The City Council is slated to vote on the payment at its Aug. 20 meeting. The council's Public Safety Committee approved the amount at its meeting Tuesday.The officers filed the lawsuit in 2004 in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. At the time, 155 officers were involved. City Attorney Beth Chandler said Wednesday she did not know how many officers were involved when the case went to mediation a few months ago.

A $10 million bad-faith judgment against Farmers Insurance Exchange, including $8.34 million in punitive damages, has been reduced to a little over $3 million by this district’s Court of Appeal.In a June 27 opinion by Justice Madeleine Flier, writing for Div. Eight, the court rejected Farmers’ arguments that it did not act in bad faith by refusing to defend a pair of limited-income homeowners from a negligence claim, forcing them to retain counsel, and later to settle the case, at their own expense. But the justices also concluded that the misconduct was not sufficiently reprehensible to justify a punitive damage award of more than the approximately $1.5 million awarded as compensatory damages.

An insurer has agreed to pay $20 million in what is believed to be the state's richest settlement of a bad faith claim. According to the plaintiff's attorney, Robert Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesk, Princeton Insurance Co. has agreed to the $20 million in mediation of a bad faith claim filed in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.