Family Behind Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma Offers ‘Sadness’ December 18, 2020 By Geoff Mulvihill Two of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to a congressional committee on Thursday that the powerful...
Ex-Deputy Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit for $250,000 December 24, 2019 By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS — A former chief deputy sheriff in rural Nevada has accepted $250,000 to end a lawsuit stemming from...
After Ethiopia Crash, Victims’ Relatives Say they Were Hounded by U.S. Law Firms December 23, 2019 By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA — Days after the March 10 crash of a Kenya-bound Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing jet that killed all 157...
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...
U.S. Court Tests Liability of Healthcare Execs December 6, 2011 By Andrew Longstreth After decades in relative obscurity, a U.S. legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing is finding its...