Bayer Dangles $5.6 Billion Olive Branch to Roundup Critics June 14, 2019 By Tim Loh and Naomi Kresge Bayer AG will pump about 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) of its research and development budget into alternatives to its...
Cult Economist Jailed for Hiding Rare Coins Says They’re His Now June 14, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch and David Glovin The 58 rare coins at the center of two federal lawsuits are exceptionally valuable. Now a bankrupt company’s receiver wants...
J&J, Colgate Ordered to Pay Almost $10 Million in Talc Case June 13, 2019 Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive Co. must pay almost $10 million to a dying California woman who blamed the companies’...
Building Materials Helped Spread Grenfell Tower Fire June 12, 2019 By Maryclaire Dale PHILADELPHIA — Faulty building materials helped spread a devastating fire at London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017, turning the residential complex...
J&J ‘Did Everything’ to Push Opioids, Oklahoma Witness Says June 12, 2019 By Andrew Harris and Jef Feeley Oklahoma’s star witness told a state judge that Johnson & Johnson pressed doctors to prescribe its painkillers even as the...
Carnival Cruise Line Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuits Over Cuba Docks June 3, 2019 HAVANA — Cruise line Carnival Corp is asking a U.S. court to dismiss lawsuits that claim the company profited from...
Louisiana Lawmakers Trying to Make Sexual Harassers Pay May 30, 2019 By Melinda DeSlatte BATON ROUGE, La. — An effort aimed at making Louisiana officials pay a share of their sexual harassment settlements, rather...
Facebook User Privacy Lawsuits Over Cambridge Analytica Have Legs May 30, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt There’s no shortage of claims Facebook Inc. violates users’ privacy for profit. Far less common are rulings from U.S. courts...
Overdose Victim’s Father Testifies in Oklahoma Opioid Trial of J&J May 29, 2019 By Nate Raymond The father of a university football player who died of a drug overdose provided emotional testimony about the personal cost...
Supreme Court Malpractice Ruling Concerns Doctors, Lawyers May 29, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS — A recent ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court saying doctors can be sued for malpractice even if they’re...