New York sues Target, Walmart for sale of lead-contaminated toys
An employee pushes shopping carts outside a Walmart store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski (Reuters) –…
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…
Canadian said to be detained in China, Huawei CFO due back in court
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A former Canadian diplomat has been detained in China, two sources said on Tuesday, just hours before…
U.S. top court, Kavanaugh spurn Planned Parenthood defunding case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by Louisiana and Kansas seeking to end their public…
Olympus unit pleads guilty to resolve U.S. duodenoscope probe
(Reuters) – An Olympus Corp subsidiary pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to pay $85 million to resolve charges that…
Qualcomm wins import ban against several Apple iPhones in China
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Qualcomm is seen during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Yves…
Huawei CFO seeks bail, cites health fears behind bars: court documents
Meng Wanzhou, Executive Board Director of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, attends a session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum…
Huawei CFO bail hearing to resume in Canada as Beijing steps up pressure
TORONTO/BEIJING (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is due back in a Canadian court on…
Exclusive: Odebrecht Peru agrees to plea deal with Peruvian authorities over bribery scandal – sources
(Reuters) – Brazilian builder Odebrecht’s Peruvian unit has signed a deal with Peruvian authorities to pay a multimillion dollar fine…
China calls on Canada to free Huawei CFO or face consequences
BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) – China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release…
Exclusive: U.S. probe of China’s Huawei includes bank fraud accusations – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S.…
Brazil court blocks proposed Embraer-Boeing tie-up
The logo of Brazilian aviation company Embraer is seen during the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE)…
Lactalis says no salmonella in baby milk at second production line
PARIS (Reuters) – Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy group, on Friday rejected media reports that salmonella had been detected in…
U.S. SEC fines Citibank more than $38 million for mishandling ADRs
Commuters walk past a Citibank branch in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ashlee Espinal WASHINGTON…
Dividend windfall: Santander latest target in Germany’s giant fraud probe
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Spain’s Santander (SAN.MC) is the latest bank to be caught up in Germany’s biggest post-war fraud investigation…
Danske shares slide as U.S. criminal inquiry spooks investors
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danske Bank’s (DANSKE.CO) deepening money laundering scandal dragged its shares to a four-year low on Friday as…
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…
Knorr-Bremse discloses dispute with Bosch in IPO prospectus
MUNICH (Reuters) – German brake maker Knorr-Bremse has disclosed a contractual dispute with Robert Bosch GmbH ahead of a stock…
U.S. agency accuses Walmart of pregnancy discrimination in lawsuit
(Reuters) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart Inc of forcing pregnant workers…
SEC orders Citigroup to pay $12 million to settle dark pool probe
(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc was ordered to pay more than $12 million by U.S. regulators on Friday after it was…
China seeks WTO backing for $7 billion sanctions on U.S. over dumping duties
GENEVA (Reuters) – China told the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday it wanted to impose $7 billion a year…
VW faces 9.2 billion euros investor suit over dieselgate scandal
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen faces a trial next week as investors seek 9.2 billion euros ($10.7 billion) in compensation arguing…
Apple to provide online tool for police to request data: letter
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) plans to create an online tool for police to formally request data about its users…
JD.com’s CEO was arrested on allegation of rape: police
MINNEAPOLIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The CEO of Chinese online retail giant JD.com Inc, Richard Liu, was arrested in Minneapolis last week…
U.S. arbitration court can rule on Vattenfall’s German nuclear claim: paper
BERLIN (Reuters) – A U.S. arbitration court has rejected a German government petition that said the panel had no right…
Exclusive: Brazil prosecutors hope to strike deal lifting glyphosate injunction
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil federal prosecutors are negotiating with health authority Anvisa and the agriculture ministry to reach a deal…
Bayer’s Monsanto faces 8,000 lawsuits on glyphosate
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000,…
China sacks six senior officials at food and drug regulator over vaccine scandal
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China said on Saturday it has sacked six senior officials at its food and drug regulator after…
Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world’s first Roundup cancer trial
(Reuters) – A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the…
Heineken considers closing Brazilian factories due to court dispute
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Heineken NV (HEIN.AS), the world’s second-largest beer maker, is considering closing two factories in northeastern Brazil…
Tribune Media files suit, terminates Sinclair merger deal
(Reuters) – Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N) said on Thursday it had terminated a $3.9 billion deal to be acquired by…
U.S. argues judge failed to take its arguments into account in AT&T trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Monday the judge in the trial to stop AT&T Inc’s (T.N) purchase…
Indonesia to hand over yacht linked to 1MDB to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Indonesia has agreed to hand over to Malaysia a $250 million luxury yacht it impounded in…
Allergan sues Pfizer over costs of opioid litigation
(Reuters) – Allergan Plc (AGN.N) on Thursday sued Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) to force its larger rival to cover any damages…
Four U.S. cities sue over Trump ‘sabotage’ of Obamacare
(Reuters) – Four major U.S. cities filed a lawsuit on Thursday contending that President Donald Trump’s administration is unconstitutionally seeking…
U.S. insurers grilled on exposure to $4.7 billion J&J talc verdict
(Reuters) – Wall Street is trying to figure out whether the U.S. insurance industry will bear any costs from a…
Bayer hits back at new Netflix medical device documentary
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayer AG disputed accusations in a new Netflix documentary that claims medical device makers and the…
AT&T CEO confident Time Warner deal on solid ground
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has only a remote chance of overturning AT&T Inc’s takeover of Time Warner, Chief…
U.S. lifts ban on suppliers selling to China’s ZTE
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling goods to ZTE Corp,…
J&J vows to overturn $4.7 billion talc verdict but experts see hurdles
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson has vowed to appeal a $4.7 billion verdict awarded to 22 women who…
China says ‘bully’ United States started a trade war
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States has started a trade war and China will defend itself, Chinese Vice Minister of…
China’s ZTE clears hurdle to lifting U.S. ban
(Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday that it signed an agreement with ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) that paves the…
Ex-Apple worker charged with stealing self-driving car trade secrets
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Monday charged a former Apple Inc employee with theft of trade secrets, alleging…
U.S. judge allows lawsuits over Monsanto’s Roundup to proceed to trial
(Reuters) – Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to…
Insurers warn of rising premiums after Trump axes Obamacare payments again
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Health insurers warned that a move by the Trump administration on Saturday to temporarily suspend a…
Investigators may use files seized from VW law firm: court
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has lost a legal challenge to prevent prosecutors from examining unpublished documents about its…
AbbVie, AndroGel partner owe $448 million in antitrust case: U.S. judge
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday found that pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc used sham litigation to illegally prevent generic…
Missouri appeals court tosses $55 million J&J talc-powder verdict
(Reuters) – A Missouri appeals court on Friday threw out a $55 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a…
U.S. fines CVS for failing to report opioid theft in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – CVS Health Corp agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil fine to resolve U.S. charges that…
U.S. charges hundreds in major healthcare fraud, opioid crackdown
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against 601 people including doctors for taking part in healthcare…
U.S. jury orders DaVita to pay $383.5 million in wrongful death lawsuits
(Reuters) – A federal jury in Colorado has awarded $383.5 million to the families of three patients who said they…
Apple, Samsung settle U.S. patent dispute
(Reuters) – Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple’s allegations that…
Ex-Akebia employee jailed for night as insider trading trial starts
BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Akebia Therapeutics Inc (AKBA.O) employee accused of engaging in an insider trading scheme must spend…
U.S. Supreme Court backs American Express in merchant fee dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with American Express Co and against 11 states, ruling that…
Uber battles to keep London license in court appeal
LONDON (Reuters) – Uber goes to court on Monday to overturn a decision stripping it of its license in London…
U.S. District Court rules in favor of Lilly’s Alimta patent
(Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co said on Friday a U.S. District Court ruled in favor of its patent on…
Theranos founder Holmes, former president indicted for fraud
(Reuters) – Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes and the embattled blood-testing company’s former president were indicted on charges that they…
Theranos founder Holmes, former president indicted for fraud
(Reuters) – Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes and the embattled blood-testing company’s former president were indicted on charges that they…
Fitbit’s six current, ex-staff indicted in Jawbone trade secrets case
(Reuters) – Six former and current employees of Fitbit Inc (FIT.N) were charged in a federal indictment for possessing trade…