Liability News
Costco Wins Dismissal of Lawsuit Involving Slave Labor-Harvested Thai Shrimp
Costco Wholesale Corp. won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it didn't disclose to customers that it was selling farmed shrimp from Thailand fed a diet of cheap fish caught at sea with unpaid, forced ...
Wells Fargo Believes Customers Properly Reimbursed in Fake Account Scandal
Wells Fargo & Co, the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, said on Friday it believes it has reimbursed the customers it needs to in order to comply with at least one of three settlements over a ...
Three Takata Executives Indicted in U.S. Over Company’s Faulty Airbags
Three Takata Corp. executives were accused in a U.S. indictment of misleading federal regulators, consumers and car manufacturers about the company's faulty air bags as part of a years-long scheme ...
Arctic Cold Leaves Tens of Thousands in Southeast Europe Without Power
Arctic chill and heavy snowfall left tens of thousands of households in southeastern Europe without electricity and roiled the region's power markets as rivers froze over, cables failed and ...
Volkswagen Board Ready to OK $4.3B U.S. Diesel Penalty Payment
Volkswagen AG's supervisory board is set to sign off on a $4.3 billion settlement of U.S. criminal and civil penalties for rigging diesel-powered cars to cheat on emissions tests, the latest step in ...
Homeowners at Sinking San Francisco High-Rise Sue City and Developer
Homeowners in San Francisco's sinking and tilting luxury high-rise are suing the city and the building's developer over claims they hid the building's engineering flaws for years. Twenty tenants who ...
Judge Orders DuPont to Pay $10.5M Over Leaked Chemical; Thousands of Suits Remain
A U.S. jury in Ohio ordered DuPont on Thursday to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, ...
VW Must Face U.S. Investor Lawsuit Over Diesel Emissions Cheating
Volkswagen AG must face claims it misled U.S. investors after installing so-called defeat devices in diesel vehicles used to cheat emissions tests. A San Francisco federal judge also rejected a ...