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Court Says Silicon Valley Workers May Pursue Pay Collusion Case As a Class
Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after ...
Payment Partners Could Face Lawsuits, Fines in Target Data Breach
Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer over the holiday shopping ...
Sept 11 Settlement Between American Air, Cantor Fitzgerald Approved
A federal judge on Monday approved a $135 million settlement between American Airlines Group Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald over business and property losses suffered by the financial services company in ...
Stubbornly Low Inflation Holds Key to 2014 Fed Policy
Stubbornly weak inflation is shaping up as the wild card for U.S. monetary policy makers this year, with top Federal Reserve officials stumped by why it has lingered so low for so long and at odds as ...
Top Jury Awards in 2013
U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a $1.2 billion award against Dow Chemical Co., the largest ever in a price-fixing case. Second ...
West Virginia Spill Triggers Calls for Stronger Chemical Regulation
A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially ...
SNL Acquires Analytics Firm iPartners
SNL Insurance, a division of SNL, has acquired iPartners LLC, which offers analytics and reporting software and services that help insurers collect and analyze internal business data. Terms were not ...
Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...