‘Mission: Impossible’ Producer Sues Insurance Company Over COVID Shutdowns August 31, 2021 LOS ANGELES — Production on the new “Mission: Impossible” movie was shut down seven times due to the coronavirus pandemic,... Read More
Judge Declines to Stop J&J From Splitting Talc Liabilities From Main Business August 30, 2021 By Mike Spector and Maria Chutchian A U.S. judge declined to stop Johnson & Johnson from taking steps to offload widespread Baby Powder liabilities from the... Read More
Judge Urges Talks Between Purdue Pharma and Holdout States August 30, 2021 By Geoff Mulvihill A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday urged states that oppose a settlement plan with Purdue Pharma to try to work... Read More
Climate Change Fueled Hurricane Ida With Warm, Deep Seawater August 30, 2021 By Leslie Kaufman and Mira Rojanasakul Hurricane Ida smashed into Louisiana with winds of about 150 miles an hour, driving a wall of water inland and... Read More
Energy Companies Race to Complete Gulf of Mexico Evacuations August 27, 2021 By Sabrina Valle and Erwin Seba HOUSTON — U.S. oil and gas companies on Friday raced to complete evacuations from offshore Gulf of Mexico platforms as... Read More
Gaps in US Wildfire Smoke Warning Network Leave Many Exposed August 27, 2021 By Matthew Brown And Padmananda Rama BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Huge gaps between air quality sensors in the western U.S. have created blind spots in the... Read More
Lawyers May Target More SPACs in Lawsuits Citing Investment Company Act August 27, 2021 By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Anirban Sen and Sierra Jackson The lawyers whose action prompted billionaire investor William Ackman to make changes to his special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) could... Read More
The Case of the Bronze Girl and the Secret Garden August 26, 2021 By Christian Trabue The Situation We recently received a claim for an unmarked and unsigned bronze sculpture of a girl holding a birdbath.... Read More
Opioid Maker Insys’ Founder, Others Lose Appeals of Convictions August 26, 2021 By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel BOSTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the jury convictions of Insys Therapeutics Inc founder John Kapoor and... Read More
COVID-19 Vaccine Approval is ‘Seismic’ Shift For Legality Of Mandates, Experts Say August 25, 2021 By Tom Hals Formal U.S approval of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine will make it nearly impossible to successfully challenge mandates... Read More