3M, DuPont to Pay $100 Million to End Georgia Lawsuit Over Polluted Drinking Water June 2, 2023 By Jef Feeley and David Voreacos 3M Co., DuPont de Nemours Inc. and other makers of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have agreed to pay more...
Trump Liable for Sex Abuse, Must Pay $5 Million to Carroll May 10, 2023 By Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos A federal jury in New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll and then defaming...
Cops Struggle to Keep Up With ‘Staggering’ Levels of Crypto Seizures April 13, 2022 By Ellen Milligan and David Voreacos One spring day in a village just west of London, residents saw a man being muscled into a car in...
Insurance to Offset Merck’s $830M Settlement with Investors Over Vioxx January 19, 2016 By David Voreacos and Sophia Pearson More than 11 years after pulling its Vioxx painkiller from the market, Merck & Co. agreed to pay another $830...
Former Quest CEO Wins $14 Million in Insurance Case Against Goldman Sachs Unit January 8, 2016 By David Voreacos Former Qwest Communications International Inc. chief Joseph Nacchio won a $14.2 million insurance case verdict against a Goldman Sachs Group...
Trucker in Fatal Oklahoma Crash Had History of Synthetic Drug Use November 17, 2015 By David Voreacos The truck that killed four members of a college women’s softball team in Oklahoma last year was driven by a...
BASF Case Shows How Liabilities May Emerge Long After Acquisition September 8, 2015 By David Voreacos and Jef Feeley When BASF SE acquired Engelhard Corp. nine years ago for $5 billion, executives unknowingly inherited a ticking legal time bomb....
Amtrak Concedes to Liability in Philadelphia Train Derailment Cases July 13, 2015 By David Voreacos and Edvard Pettersson Amtrak said it will concede that it’s liable for most damages caused by the May 12 train derailment in Philadelphia...
Wal-Mart Driver in Morgan Crash Can’t Halt Civil Suit February 4, 2015 By David Voreacos The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. driver whose truck crashed into a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan lost a legal bid to...
Wal-Mart Settles With Family of Comedian Who Died in N.J. Turnpike Crash January 23, 2015 By David Voreacos Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached a confidential legal settlement with the family of comedian James McNair, who died in a June...