When Walter Henry Alderfer learned last month about the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy, it brought back bad memories. In...
Articles by Tom Hals, Andrew Longstreth and Steve Stecklow
Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast...
Victims of the Italian cruise ship disaster who might seek to sue in the United States, where damages lawsuits are...
The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived...
After decades in relative obscurity, a U.S. legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing is finding its...
For many states, a law intended to root out corruption also has been good for the bottom line. Over the...
If the Federal Bureau of Investigation turns up evidence that MF Global Holdings Ltd improperly mixed customer accounts and its...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put reshaping a U.S. anti-bribery law near the top of its legislative wish list,...
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a method developed by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm for determining how...
News Corp. shareholders angry over the hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate face an uphill fight trying to hold...