After years of legal setbacks that have cost billions of dollars over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller, Bayer AG finally got a resounding win in the biggest tribunal of all. The US Supreme Court threw out a jury verdict won by …
Tensions flared Saturday as desperation grew in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and the death toll rose sharply to 1,430. Families reported at least 68,900 people missing Saturday, three days after the …
The US Supreme Court left intact a jury’s finding that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, putting her in line to collect a $5 million award from the president. The justices without comment or noted …
Not far from the super yachts docked outside the island palaces of Miami’s new billionaire class, smaller boats abandoned by people who couldn’t afford them languish in Biscayne Bay. Since October, Miami Beach police have identified and removed about 140 …
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) now says data taken earlier this month from its information technology systems has been published online by the hackers responsible. In a short note posted midday June 25, NAIC said it was “actively …
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has agreed with the World Bank’s guarantee arm MIGA to create a political risk insurance framework for a U.S.-Ukrainian reconstruction investment fund. The agreement, signed on Thursday on the sidelines of a Ukraine recovery …
Red Lobster’s $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal wasn’t just a badly designed promotion that inadvertently helped tip the iconic American restaurant chain into bankruptcy. It was part of a scheme to “squeeze every drop of value” from Red Lobster for the …
Cal-Maine Foods Inc. and other egg suppliers are close to resolving an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and a bipartisan group of states into alleged illegal price coordination, according to people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department and …
Billionaire Ira Rennert agreed to pay $150 million to resolve more than a thousand claims that a lead smelter owned by his companies poisoned residents of a Peruvian town, reaching a deal on the eve of a U.S. trial that …
The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German …