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Judge Rules Exxon Mobil Did Not Defraud Investors by Hiding Climate Change Costs
Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit on Tuesday when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate ...
Volkswagen Confronts Giant UK Emissions Class Action Lawsuit
Volkswagen AG is facing one of the largest-ever U.K. class action lawsuits, with almost 100,000 vehicle owners accusing it of misleading them by installing emissions-cheating software that made it ...
U.S. Prosecutors to Pursue Criminal Probe of 6 Pharma Companies Over Opioid Shipments
Federal prosecutors are investigating six pharmaceutical companies for potential criminal charges in connection with shipping big quantities of opioid painkillers that contributed to a healthcare ...
Appeals Court Upholds $70M Verdict Against J&J Over Risperdal Side Effects
A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld a $70 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit charging its Risperdal anti-psychotic drug caused a man to grow female breasts and also ruled that ...
Uber, Called ‘Unfit,’ Stripped of London License Due to Safety Failures
Uber was stripped of its London operating license on Monday for the second time in just over two years after the city's regulator said a "pattern of failures" on safety and security meant the taxi ...
Boeing Reports Settlement of More Than Half of Lion Air Crash Lawsuits
Boeing Co has settled more than half of some 118 cases related to the fatal crash of a Lion Air flight on a 737 MAX aircraft in October 2018, attorney Dan Webb said at a court hearing on Thursday. ...
Suit Alleges Boeing Board Liability for 737 MAX Problems
A shareholder lawsuit filed on Monday accused Boeing Co's board of doing nothing to investigate the safety of the 737 MAX until the fast-selling plane suffered a second deadly crash in five months. ...
J&J’s Opioid Payout in Oklahoma Reduced to $465 Million
An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson must pay that state $465 million for fueling the opioid epidemic through the deceptive marketing of painkillers, down from his original award of ...