Brazilian prosecutors charged 21 people with qualified homicide on Thursday for their roles in the collapse of a tailings dam at the Samarco Mineração SA iron ore mine last November that killed 19 people. The charges follow what is now …
Marco Antonio Rossi, the top executive at the insurance arm of Brazil’s second-largest private-sector lender Banco Bradesco SA, was killed in a plane crash, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. Rossi, 54, was aboard a Cessna Citation VII …
A Brazilian federal prosecutor on Tuesday launched his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the stakes against the companies as critics call him as overzealous. The new lawsuit, the prosecutor’s …
A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed criminal charges on Wednesday against Chevron and drill-rig operator Transocean for a November oil spill, raising the stakes in a legal saga that is adding to Chevron’s woes in Latin America and threatens to slow …
A $10.6 billion lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and rig contractor Transocean could further cool an increasingly chilly investment climate in Brazil’s natural resources industry. The lawsuit, filed as a result of a small oil spill off Brazil’s coast …
U.S. oil company Chevron will fully clean up a spill off Brazil’s coast, George Buck, the CEO of the local subsidiary said on Sunday, taking responsibility for an accident that has become a major test for one of the world’s …
