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</font></font></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=2 color=#330066> <BR> <B>SETTLEMENT NEWS:</B><BR> <BR> <B>Acura Settles Shareholder Claims Over Acurox For $1.5M</B><br>Allison Grande<br><br>Law360 - Securities. January 24, 2012</font><BR> <font face='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color='#330066'> _________________________________________________________________________ </font> <BR><BR> <font face='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=2 color='#330066'> <!--PASTE ON THE LINE BELOW-->EXCERPT Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Monday agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a putative shareholder class action in Illinois federal court claiming the drugmaker misrepresented the chances that its flagship painkiller Acurox would gain regulatory approval in order to inflate its stock price. Under the terms of the settlement that the court preliminarily approved on Nov. 8 and lead plaintiff Acura Shareholder Investors Group requested final approval for on Monday, the $1.5 million cash settlement will be distributed among shareholders who purchased or acquired Acura stock [& ]<!--PASTE ON THE LINE ABOVE--> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <TABLE witdh=100% align='left' valign='top'> <BR> <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> Back to <A HREF='/news.html'> <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> News</font></A>&nbsp;page | <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> Back to <A HREF='/news-archive/2012/list-index.html'> <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> Archived News 2012</font></A>&nbsp;page | <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> Back to <A HREF='#top'><font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color=#330066> Top</font></A>&nbsp; <!--we may use this space--> </font></font></font></TABLE><BR> </td> </tr> </table> <BR> </TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR> </BODY></HTML>