HEALTH CARE

Corning, Unilab Will Settle Charges Over Lab Tests: Medical laboratories owned by Corning Inc. and Unilab Corp. of Tarzana will pay almost $11 million to settle charges that they fraudulently billed federal government health programs for some blood tests. Teterboro, N.J.-based Corning Clinical Laboratories Inc. said it would pay $6.85 million to resolve a suit involving alleged false billings by laboratories formerly owned by a company known as MetPath Inc., but later acquired by Corning. Unilab agreed to pay an additional $4 million to resolve billing claims by former MetPath laboratories that it later purchased.