Private electric utilities in the Pacific Northwest are planning tens of millions of dollars in upgrades to reduce the risk that their power lines could spark wildfires during extreme weather. Utilities such as Pacific Power, Avista, Idaho Power, Portland General …
Judges on a U.S. appeals court appeared hesitant on Friday to revive a legal shield that would protect members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma from lawsuits related to the prescription opioid OxyContin, a key to ending the …
Kenny Oshita was a first semester law student at the University of Southern California when a visit to a school doctor for a possible sexual disease turned into an invasive procedure that left him feeling violated. He was not alone. …
Thomas Buberl has been reappointed as AXA’s chief executive officer, while Antoine Gosset-Grainville has been name chairman of the board of directors, succeeding Denis Duverne, who has retired. Burberl first became CEO and a director of AXA in September 2016. …
A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. The jury found that Dr. Paul B. Jones and his clinic, …
Philippe Donnet kept his job as chief executive of Italian insurer Generali on Friday when he won the backing of shareholders in the face of a challenge from a rebel investor. The company’s board nominees, backed by leading shareholder Mediobanca, …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday sued Brazilian miner Vale for allegedly making false and misleading disclosures about the safety of its dams ahead of a 2019 disaster that killed 270 people. Beginning in 2016, Vale manipulated …
The head of McKinsey & Co. acknowledged that it failed to see the opioid epidemic unfolding while simultaneously doing work for drug regulators and makers of painkillers including OxyContin in his first appearance before lawmakers investigating the consulting firm’s actions. …
The U.S. solar industry is warning of a big slowdown in project installations this year as global supply chain disruptions and the threat of new U.S. tariffs on panel imports from Southeast Asia hit home. U.S. power company Southern Co. …
Eden Foods, Inc., an organic foods company headquartered in Clinton, Michigan that claims to be the premier natural foods company in the Americas, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to repeated sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …