Regulation & Compliance
Inadequate Shareholder Disclosure and Other Killer Risks
While most of the killer risks that can torpedo a company exist within the walls of the organization, the deadliest—in terms of its hidden impact—relates to external communications, a risk expert ...
Nasdaq Says Talks Over Market Glitches Too Slow: Reuters
Nasdaq OMX Group is prepared to walk away from running the data processor that was at the center of a three-hour trading halt in August, in a sign of its frustration with the pace of talks over ...
Federal Lawsuit Filed Over West Virginia Chemical Spill
Eastman Chemical Co., a Kingsport, Tennessee-based chemical manufacturer, was sued by West Virginia stores and residents who allege the firm concealed the cancer- causing elements of a chemical ...
Shedding Light on ‘Dark Side’ of Internet of Things
The futuristic world of self-driving cars, eyeglasses that e-mail and trash cans that call for pickup is running into the old-fashioned pace of doing business in Washington. Companies from Google ...
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 ...
BlackRock Agreement with New York AG Ends Analyst Survey Program
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, agreed to end its analyst survey program worldwide, as part of an agreement reached Wednesday with the New York Attorney General's office. The ...
A.M. Best Moves Tower Rating Status to Developing, Still Under Review
On Friday, A.M. Best Co. announced that it changed the "under review" status Tower Group ratings to "under review with developing" implications rather than "negative" implications—a reaction to ...