Court Says Google Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Hiding Security Risks June 17, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc. accused the company...
$6.4 Billion Suit Claims Bristol-Myers Delayed Cancer Drug to Avoid Shareholder Payment June 4, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued for $6.4 billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid...
Businesses Sue MLB for Moving All-Star Game to Protest Georgia Voting Law June 1, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A conservative group representing small businesses has sued Major League Baseball and its players’ union over the decision to move...
Black Media Mogul Allen Alleges Advertising Bias in Suing McDonald’s for $10 Billion May 21, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel McDonald’s Corp. was sued on Thursday for at least $10 billion by two companies owned by media entrepreneur Byron Allen,...
5 Women File Employment Discrimination Suits Against Amazon.com May 20, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel Amazon.com Inc. was hit on Wednesday with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles,...
Suit Claims Owners Drove Brooks Brothers to Bankruptcy to Avoid Paying Investor May 20, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel and Claudia Cristoferi The billionaire Italian family that until recently owned Brooks Brothers has been accused in a lawsuit of driving the iconic...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes Big Stake in Aon May 17, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said on Monday it has taken a $943 million stake in insurance brokerage Aon Plc and sold...
Buffett Says Non-Insurance Executive Abel Is His Likely Successor May 3, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel and Niket Nishant Warren Buffett ended long-running speculation about his successor at Berkshire Hathaway Inc by saying Greg Abel, who oversees the conglomerate’s...
Buffett Extols U.S. Economic Recovery, Laments SPACs, Shrugs Off Tax Hike May 3, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel and John McCrank Warren Buffett said on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is being lifted by a U.S. economy faring far better than...
New York Begins Probe Into Toxic Metals in Baby Food April 30, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel New York’s attorney general said on Thursday she has opened a probe into whether baby food contains arsenic and other...