Government
Lead Paint Verdict May Set Dangerous Precedent: McArdle Viewpoint
A California judge has just ruled that manufacturers of lead paints and pigments have to pay 10 cities in California $1.1 billion to remediate lead paint used in homes there. I wrote about this last ...
Wall Street Broker Contests SEC’s Probe with Harassment Lawsuit
Companies usually keep a low profile when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigates them. Robert DePalo decided to sue. DePalo is accusing the SEC of asking investors "leading and ...
Paint Manufacturers to Pay $1.1B to California Municipalities in Nuisance Liability Case
Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and ConAgra Grocery Products LLC have been ordered by a judge to pay $1.1 billion to replace or contain lead paint in millions of homes after losing a ...
SEC Hikes Limit for Small Stock Deals to $50M Under JOBS Act
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency's latest step to ease ...
JPMorgan Seeks More Than $1B From FDIC Over WaMu claims
JPMorgan Chase & Co sued the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in federal court on Tuesday, saying the agency owes it more than $1 billion in compensation for not assuming legal claims ...
Zurich Insurance Policy Lowers Banks’ Operational Risk Capital Needs
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, plans to offer banks a way to lower the amount of capital they need to hold for operational risks such as employee misconduct as regulators ...Ex-BP Engineer Destroyed Gulf Spill Evidence, Jury Told
A former BP Plc engineer deliberately destroyed evidence sought by the U.S. for a probe of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico well explosion and oil spill, a federal prosecutor said at the end of a trial in New ...
UBS Not Liable for Touting Risk Controls Breached by Rogue Trader
U.S. securities laws have their limits and do not justify making UBS AG liable to shareholders for touting its ability to control risk even as it harbored a rogue trader who caused $2.3 billion of ...