November 28, 2023
FTX investors suing the cryptocurrency exchange’s celebrity promoters for allegedly helping to facilitate an $11 billion fraud have some new targets, including Major League Baseball, Formula 1 racing and Mercedes-Benz Group AG’s racing team. Investors’ lawyers sued MLB – the …
October 19, 2023
Johnson & Johnson said it is weighing a third attempt to use bankruptcy for an $8.9 billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits that allege tainted talc in the company’s baby powder caused cancer. Erik Haas, J&J’s lawyer in …
October 12, 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how Twitter Inc. managed a 2018 security lapse that exposed personal user information before billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform last year. The agency has been scrutinizing whether the former top …
October 2, 2023
Guess? Inc. directors agreed to a settlement worth as much as $30 million to resolve claims they turned a blind eye to co-founder Paul Marciano’s harassment of the company’s models despite sexual misconduct allegations leveled by supermodel Kate Upton and …
September 7, 2023
Koninklijke Philips NA officials have agreed to pay at least $479 million to resolve part of a sprawling litigation tied to a 2021 US recall of millions of machines designed to treat sleep apnea, according to people familiar with the …
August 29, 2023
3M Co. has agreed to pay $6 billion to resolve hundreds of thousands of lawsuits alleging it sold defective earplugs to the US military that led to hearing damage for combat troops. The company will pay $5 billion in cash …
August 28, 2023
3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the US military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said. The settlement would avert a potentially much larger liability …
August 17, 2023
The Hawaiian power company in the crosshairs after wildfires ripped through parts of Maui faces a new lawsuit blaming its equipment for starting blazes that claimed more than 100 lives and wreaked billions of dollars in damages. Witnesses say some …
June 5, 2023
The judge overseeing 4,000 lawsuits involving 3M Co. “forever chemicals” agreed to delay the first trial for three weeks so the company can work out a settlement over pollution claims by water providers. US District Judge Mark Gergel said 3M …
June 2, 2023
Update: 3M Granted Delay in ‘Forever Chemicals’ Trial to Negotiate Settlement 3M Co. struck a tentative settlement of at least $10 billion over water pollution claims tied to “forever chemicals,” according to people familiar with the proposed accord, the largest …