Mealey's (December 15, 2016, 8:57 AM EST) -- BOSTON — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle class claims alleging that the retailer unlawfully denied health benefits to the spouses of employees who are in same-sex marriages, according to a motion for preliminary approval of class action settlement filed Dec. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Jacqueline A. Cote, et al. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. 15-12945, D. Mass.)....