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Automated Car Safety Systems Working; Preventing Crashes: Studies
Safety systems to prevent cars from drifting into another lane or that warn drivers of vehicles in their blind spots are beginning to live up to their potential to reduce crashes significantly, ...
Another Lawsuit Accuses Greenpeace of Inciting Eco-Terrorism in Dakota Access Pipeline Case
Energy Transfer Partners LP accused Greenpeace International, Earth First! and other groups of inciting terrorist acts and vandalism to generate publicity and raise money for their causes while ...
Police-Inflicted Taser Deaths Led to at Least 442 Lawsuits: Reuters
In a first-of-its-kind review of court documents, police reports, other public records and news accounts, Reuters compiled the most comprehensive public accounting to date of deaths and litigation ...
Jury Orders J&J to Fork Over $417M in Talc Cancer-Risk Trial
A California jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company's talc-based products like Johnson's Baby ...
Suit Alleges Nestle’s Poland Spring Passes Off Ground Water as High-End H20
Nestle SA's Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary ground water that's pumped from some of Maine's most populated areas, rather than from ...
Another Wells Fargo Snafu: It May Have Harmed Customers by Closing Real Accounts
After paying customers millions of dollars for opening phony accounts they did not want, Wells Fargo & Co has said it is now grappling with the possibility it harmed customers by closing real ...
Bank of America, Deutsche Bank Resolve Agency Bond Rigging Lawsuits
Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America Corp agreed to pay a combined $65.5 million to settle investor litigation accusing large banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market ...
Takata Bankruptcy Judge in U.S. Pauses Lawsuits Against Automakers
A U.S. judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Japanese auto supplier Takata Corp's U.S. business has halted for 90 days the lawsuits brought by victims of its faulty air bag inflators against automakers, ...