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Insurer Seeks to Rescind Robotic Surgery Company Policy
Intuitive Surgical Inc., the maker of robotic-surgery devices targeted by patient lawsuits, was sued by an insurer alleging the company hid the number of legal claims it might face when buying ...
Sandy Facts ‘n Figures
Superstorm Sandy made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone on the U.S. East Coast October 29, 2012 after cutting a destructive path through the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica ...
New York Announces Emergency Disaster Protocol for Insurers
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his administration has established a new emergency disaster protocol that insurers should expect to follow in the event of future severe storms and other ...
Toyota Settles Acceleration Case After $3M Verdict
Toyota Motor Corp. reached a deal last Friday to resolve a lawsuit in the United States over unintended acceleration issues, one day after a jury found the Japanese carmaker liable and ordered it to ...
FIRREA: Government’s Key Weapon in Financial Fraud Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice appeared to have struck gold last week with the law it wielded against one of the nation's largest banks over conduct that fueled the financial crisis. To convince a ...
Lawsuit Against Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Gets Class-Action Status
A U.S. judge accorded class-action status to a lawsuit that alleges broad conspiracy among major Silicon Valley companies to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other's employees, a ...
Aiming To Avoid Facebook Chaos, NYSE Runs Twitter IPO Test
The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter's highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook's initial public offering on ...
Patton Boggs in Merger Talks, Possibly with Locke Lord: Sources
Washington law firm Patton Boggs, well known for its lobbying and public policy work, is in talks to merge with a larger U.S. law firm, according to two former partners and a person with inside ...