WeWork directors seek to preserve right to sue owner SoftBank
(Reuters) – A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware on Monday to prevent it from…
U.S. Supreme Court turns away religious bias claim against Walgreens
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a…
PG&E proposes board revamp in revised bankruptcy plan
FILE PHOTO – A PG&E truck carrying an American Flag drives past PG&E repair trucks in Paradise, California, U.S. November…
Bayer faces fourth U.S. Roundup cancer trial in Monsanto’s hometown
(Reuters) – Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) is set to face a fourth U.S. jury trial over allegations that its Roundup weed…
Ericsson to pay over $1 billion to resolve U.S. corruption probes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson (ERICb.ST) has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into…
Facebook sues ILikeAd, alleges ad fraud
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that it said baited people into clicking on…
CBS ordered to disclose internal records on Viacom deal
(Reuters) – A Delaware judge on Monday ordered broadcaster CBS Corp to turn over records regarding its plan to reunite…
SoftBank to go ahead with WeWork stock tender offer this week
NEW YORK/BANGALORE (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) will this week launch a previously agreed tender offer for as much…
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Charter appeal of Sprint patent verdict
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters) –…
Teva, three U.S. drug distributors reach opioid settlement – source
The logo of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is seen during a news conference hold by its CEO, Kare Schultz, to discuss…
Factbox: Billion-dollar lawsuits accuse drugmakers, distributors of fueling U.S. opioid crisis
(Reuters) – On Monday, two Ohio counties reached a last-minute settlement with four companies they accused of fueling the nationwide…
Bayer expects significant surge in number of U.S. glyphosate cases
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer expects the number of claims in the United States related to Roundup herbicide to have surged…
U.S. agency reviews whether 2,000 Teslas should have been recalled
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators said on Friday they were reviewing whether Tesla Inc should have recalled 2,000 of its…
J&J to pay $20.4 million to settle opioid lawsuits with two Ohio counties
FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Johnson & Johnson is displayed on a screen to celebrate the 75th anniversary of…
Southwest passengers get no damages for flights canceled by de-icer shortage: U.S. judge
(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) won the dismissal of a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking damages for stranded passengers on…
Facebook failed to warn users of known risks before 2018 breach: court filing
(Reuters) – Facebook (FB.O) users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed…
Bayer mediator dismisses report of $8 billion Roundup settlement
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer AG has not offered to pay billions of dollars to settle claims in the United…
Bayer mediator dismisses report of $8 billion Roundup settlement
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer AG has not offered to pay billions of dollars to settle claims in the United…
Oklahoma makes final bid to hold J&J responsible for opioid epidemic
(Reuters) – Oklahoma’s attorney general on Wednesday made his final bid to force Johnson & Johnson to pay $17 billion…
In Roundup case, U.S. judge cuts $2 billion verdict against Bayer to $86 million
(Reuters) – A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who…
Opioid ‘kingpin’ J&J fueled epidemic, Oklahoma argues at trial’s end
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday compared Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) to a drug…
U.S. judge slashes Roundup jury award to $25.3 million from $80.3 million
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Bayer AG is pictured at the so called ‘Chempark’, the main plant and headquarters of…
Reckitt to pay $1.4 billion to end U.S. opioid addiction treatment probes
(Reuters) – Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. claims that its former pharmaceuticals…
Reckitt to pay $1.4 billion to end U.S. opioid addiction treatment probes
(Reuters) – Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. claims that its former pharmaceuticals…
Juror urges U.S. judge to uphold $80 million Roundup verdict against Bayer
(Reuters) – A juror who was part of a panel that delivered an $80 million award against Bayer AG after…
Motel 6 hotel chain to settle lawsuit over sharing guest lists with ICE
(Reuters) – Motel 6 has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over claims the budget chain…
Oklahoma judge approves Teva’s $85 million opioid settlement
(Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge on Monday approved a revised $85 million (£66.7 million) settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd…
Oklahoma judge approves Teva’s $85 million opioid settlement
(Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge on Monday approved a revised $85 million (£66.7 million) settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd…
Court grants American Airlines’ request to end ‘devastating’ slowdown by unions
FILE PHOTO: American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX jets sit parked at a facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., May 10, 2019.…
U.S. cities propose framework for nationwide opioid settlement talks
(Reuters) – Lawyers for counties and municipalities suing drug manufacturers and distributors over their alleged roles in the U.S. opioid…
U.S. football player’s overdose death spotlighted in J&J Oklahoma opioid trial
(Reuters) – The father of a college football player who died of a drug overdose gave emotional testimony about the…
J&J’s greed helped fuel U.S. opioid crisis, Oklahoma claims at trial
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson’s greed led the drugmaker to use deceptive marketing to create an oversupply of…
Teva Pharm to pay Oklahoma $85 million to settle opioid claims
BOSTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said on Sunday it had agreed to pay an $85 million settlement with…
Oklahoma reaches $85 million settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals ahead of trial
A man walks past the logo of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries at their plant in Jerusalem December 14, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad…
U.S. judge appoints Ken Feinberg mediator for Bayer Roundup settlement talks
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday appointed prominent attorney Kenneth Feinberg as mediator for court-mandated settlement talks in the…
U.S. judge appoints Ken Feinberg mediator for Bayer Roundup settlement talks
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday appointed prominent attorney Kenneth Feinberg as mediator for court-mandated settlement talks in the…
Bayer bets on ‘silver bullet’ defense in Roundup litigation; experts see hurdles
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits…
Bayer bets on ‘silver bullet’ defense in Roundup litigation; experts see hurdles
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits…
California jury hits Bayer with $2 billion award in Roundup cancer trial
(Reuters) – A California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based…
Oklahoma drops several claims in opioid case against J&J, Teva
(Reuters) – Oklahoma’s attorney general on Thursday had dropped all but a single claim against Johnson & Johnson and Teva…
U.S. lawsuit filed against Boeing over Ethiopian Airlines crash
(Reuters) – A lawsuit against Boeing Co was filed in U.S. federal court on Thursday in what appeared to be…
New Jersey jury finds J&J not liable in latest talc cancer trial
(Reuters) – A New Jersey jury on Wednesday cleared Johnson & Johnson of liability in a lawsuit brought by a…
U.S. jury says Bayer must pay $81 million to man in Roundup cancer trial
FILE PHOTO: Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller atomizers are displayed for sale at a garden shop near Brussels, Belgium November 27, 2017.…
J&J settles three mesothelioma talc cases-plaintiffs’ lawyer
A bottle of Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder is seen in a photo illustration taken in New York, February 24,…
New Jersey jury finds J&J not liable in latest talc cancer trial
(Reuters) – A New Jersey jury on Wednesday cleared Johnson & Johnson of liability in a lawsuit brought by a…
U.S. jury to determine liability, damages in Roundup cancer trial
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A lawyer for a man who said his cancer was caused by Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed…
Purdue Pharma agrees to $270 million settlement in Oklahoma opioid case
(Reuters) – OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company reached a…
OxyContin maker Purdue agrees to settle Oklahoma opioid case: source
(Reuters) – Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller…
Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents, jury finds
(Reuters) – Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday won a legal victory against iPhone maker Apple Inc, with…
California jury awards $29 million to woman with cancer who used J&J talc
(Reuters) – A California jury on Wednesday awarded $29 million to a woman who said that asbestos in Johnson &…
Quebec appeals court upholds C$15 billion tobacco class action ruling
MONTREAL/LONDON (Reuters) – The Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld on Friday the bulk of a 2015 decision that awarded…
Insys founder ran bribe scheme to push opioid: U.S. prosecutor
BOSTON (Reuters) – Insys Therapeutics Inc’s one-time billionaire founder directed a vast scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive…
J&J, U.S. states settle hip implant claims for $120 million
(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have agreed to pay $120 million to resolve deceptive marketing…
Family behind Purdue Pharma pushed opioid marketing, Massachusetts says
BOSTON (Reuters) – Members of the wealthy Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma LP pushed it to boost sales of OxyContin…
U.S. judge lets Buffett’s Dairy Queen sue W.B. Mason over ‘Blizzard’
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Minnesota ruled this week that Dairy Queen, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc,…
German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg sues VW for damages: FAZ
FILE PHOTO: A Volkswagen logo is pictured during the Volkswagen Group’s annual general meeting in Berlin, Germany, May 3, 2018.…
Physician assistant faces U.S. trial over Insys opioid kickbacks
(Reuters) – A former physician assistant is set to face trial in New Hampshire on Wednesday over charges he accepted…
Exclusive: Visa, Mastercard offer tourist card fee cut in EU antitrust probe – sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Visa and Mastercard have offered to trim the fees merchants pay on card payments by tourists in…
Facebook, responding to lawsuit, says sex trafficking banned on site
(Reuters) – Facebook said on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to protect users…