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…
Tokyo prosecutors enter former Nissan chief Ghosn’s home: NHK
FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn sits inside a car as he leaves his lawyer’s office after being…
Exclusive: Renault alerts prosecutors to Oman dealer payments in Ghosn era
PARIS (Reuters) – Renault has alerted French prosecutors to payments made to a Renault-Nissan business partner in Oman under former…
Swiss drugmaker Novartis must face doctor kickback suit, U.S. judge rules
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novartis AG must face a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of paying millions of dollars in…
Supreme Court rebuffs anti-abortion activists in Planned Parenthood suit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by anti-abortion activists to narrow a Planned Parenthood…
Swiss drugmaker Novartis must face doctor kickback suit, U.S. judge rules
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novartis AG must face a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of paying millions of dollars in…
Georgia lawmakers pass heartbeat abortion ban, joining four other U.S. states
(Reuters) – Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature on Friday passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, outlawing…
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…
U.S judge strikes down rule allowing ‘skimpy’ health insurance plans
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday stuck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to…
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…
Dueling Qualcomm, Apple rulings leave battle lines unchanged
(Reuters) – Split decisions on Tuesday by a U.S. government panel in acrimonious patent disputes between iPhone-maker Apple and chip…
Tesla’s Elon Musk, SEC to face off in U.S. court on April 4
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Elon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will square off in 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…
Trump administration ratchets up attack on Obamacare, asks court to overturn law
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has stepped up its attack on the Obamacare healthcare law, telling a federal appeals…
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…
Musk’s lawyers say U.S. SEC has not met heavy burden to show contempt
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying…
Federal charges for former UAW vice president in corruption probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors in Detroit on Monday charged a former high-ranking United Auto Workers official in charge of…
Ohio accuses UnitedHealth’s OptumRx of drug overcharges in lawsuit
(Reuters) – Ohio’s attorney general on Monday said he had filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc’s OptumRx unit, saying…
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 &…
Elon Musk’s defense of his Tesla tweet will get SEC response
(Reuters) – The top U.S. securities regulator received permission from a federal judge on Tuesday to respond to Tesla Inc…
Appeals court says Ohio may withhold Planned Parenthood funding
(Reuters) – A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Planned Parenthood’s constitutional challenge to an Ohio law depriving the…
Democrats probe whether White House interfered in AT&T Time Warner merger
(Reuters) – Two U.S. House Democrats asked the White House and Justice Department to turn over documents that could show…
Long before Trump’s trade war with China, Huawei’s activities were secretly tracked
(Reuters) – The surprise arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a…
Huawei set to announce lawsuit against U.S. as it seeks to strike back
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies is set to announce a lawsuit on Thursday against the United States, ratcheting up…
Uber not criminally liable in fatal 2018 Arizona self-driving crash: prosecutors
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one…
Exclusive: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy – sources
(Reuters) – OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000…
Canada approves Huawei extradition proceedings, China seethes
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government, as expected, on Friday approved extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of Huawei…
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…
Canada seen approving extradition hearing against Huawei executive
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is likely to announce on Friday that an extradition hearing against a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd…
Standard Chartered fined $133 million by Britain’s financial watchdog
People walk inside the main branch of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, China August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo (Reuters)…
Honda to shut UK car plant in 2022 with the loss of 3,500 jobs
LONDON (Reuters) – Japanese car maker Honda is set to announce it’s closing its only British car plant in 2022…
Honda to close UK car plant with the loss of 3,500 jobs
LONDON (Reuters) – Japanese carmaker Honda is set to announce the closure of its only British car plant in 2022…
Huawei founder says Huawei CFO arrest was politically motivated: BBC
(Reuters) – Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said on Monday that the arrest of his daughter, Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng…
National Enquirer owner defends reporting on Amazon’s Bezos
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The owner of U.S. tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer pushed back on Friday against accusations of…
U.S. jury orders Takeda to pay Bayer $155 million over hemophilia drug
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury has ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s Baxalta unit to pay Bayer AG $155.19 million for infringing…
1970s-era musicians sue Sony, UMG to reclaim song rights
NEW YORK (Reuters) – David Johansen, John Waite and other prominent 1970s musicians filed lawsuits on Tuesday accusing Sony Music…
U.S. jury orders Takeda to pay Bayer $155 million over hemophilia drug
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury has ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s Baxalta unit to pay Bayer AG $155.19 million for infringing…
U.S. high court temporarily blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily prevented a Louisiana law imposing strict regulations on abortion clinics…
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…
France warns against ‘exorbitant’ payoff for ex-Renault boss Ghosn
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s finance minister said on Sunday a severance package for former Renault chief Carlos Ghosn, forced to…
Malaysia probing audit firms’ conduct in 1MDB scandal
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s securities regulator said on Saturday it was looking into the conduct of auditors of 1Malaysia…
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…
Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies fired by university
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world’s first “gene-edited” babies evaded oversight…
McDonald’s loses ‘Big Mac’ trademark case to Irish chain Supermac’s
(Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) has lost its rights to the trademark “Big Mac” in a European Union case ruling…
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,…
After Monsanto patent ruling, Indian farmers hope for next-gen GM seeds
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A court ruling in India this week that upheld a Monsanto patent on genetically modified (GM)…
Nissan has canceled lease on Ghosn’s Tokyo apartment: Ghosn lawyer
A court sketch, drawn by Nobutoshi Katsuyama, shows ousted Nissan Motor Co Ltd chairman Carlos Ghosn during an open hearing…
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.…
Nissan’s Ghosn to make first public appearance in 7 weeks in court on Tuesday
TOKYO (Reuters) – Ousted Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) chairman Carlos Ghosn is set to make his first public appearance…
‘Pooey Puitton’ purse said to irk Louis Vuitton, prompts lawsuit
(Reuters) – A California toy company has sued Louis Vuitton to stop the French luxury goods maker from interfering with…
Japan court extends Ghosn detention by 10 days
FILE PHOTO: Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, attends a press conference on the second press day…
French court fines oil group Total in Iran bribery case
PARIS (Reuters) – A Paris court fined French oil and gas group Total (TOTF.PA) 500,000 euros ($570,000) on Friday for…