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Colorado Jury Finds Helmet Maker Riddell Negligent
A Colorado jury in a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely injured high school football player has found that helmet maker Riddell was negligent in failing to warn players about concussion ...
Woody Allen v. William Faulkner: Fair Use?
A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner's heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film "Midnight in Paris" has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi. The ...S&P: Bermuda Outlook Revision ‘No Impact’ on Bermuda Reinsurer Ratings
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in a report titled "The Recent Outlook Revision On Bermuda Does Not Affect Bermudian (Re)Insurers", said that "despite the recent outlook revision on the ...
Illinois Jury Sides with Johnson & Johnson in Hip Implant Case
Last Tuesday, an Illinois jury found in favor of Johnson & Johnson's DePuy orthopedics unit in a second product liability trial of nearly 11,000 lawsuits over the company's recalled ASR metal hip ...
Lean Times Drive Fiat’s Maserati To Test Drive Reinvented Ghibli
In these lean economic times, even supercar makers are reaching down-market—which for Maserati means a price tag below 100,000 euros ($131,000). The Italian company owned by Fiat is reinventing its ...
Researchers Develop Device to Mitigate Blackouts, Prevent Equipment Damage
A local power failure in Ohio ten years ago caused a series of cascading power failures that resulted in a massive blackout that affected 50 million people and caused billions of dollars in damage ...
U.S. Drought Falls Below 50 Percent for First Time in 10 Months
The area of the contiguous United States in moderate drought or worse fell below 50 percent for the first time since June 19, 2012, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor ...
Storm Rips Open Chicago Sinkhole
A rainstorm pummeling the Chicago area ripped open a sinkhole Thursday that swallowed three cars, injuring one driver badly enough that he had to be hospitalized. Blasts of torrential rain and ...