Merck’s $8 Billion Cancer Vaccine Faces First US Jury Trial January 27, 2025 By Peter Blumberg Merck & Co. is facing its first jury trial over claims the company wrongfully marketed its lucrative Gardasil cancer vaccine...
McKinsey to Pay $78 Million to Settle Opioid Claims by Insurers January 3, 2024 By Peter Blumberg McKinsey & Co. is poised to pay $78 million to health insurers and company benefit plans, in its latest settlement...
Berkshire Unit Liable for Millions in Damages Over Oregon Fires June 12, 2023 By Joel Rosenblat and Peter Blumberg A Berkshire Hathaway Inc. unit is liable for destruction caused by the 2020 Labor Day Fires in Oregon, a jury...
Facebook Employee Called Inflated Ad Metrics ‘Deeply Wrong’ February 23, 2021 By Peter Blumberg Facebook Inc. internal emails made public in court reveal an employee’s concerns the company misrepresented advertisers’ estimated audience, calling the...
Juul Labs and WeWork Being Sued Under Illinois Biometric Privacy Law November 12, 2019 By Peter Blumberg Juul Labs Inc. was sued for collecting biometric data from its online customers as a method of verifying they are...
Microsoft Women Face Skeptical Appeals Court over Unequal-Pay Case November 5, 2019 By Peter Blumberg Women engineers who claim Microsoft Corp. discriminates against them for pay and promotions faced tough questions from a federal appeals...
Judge Allows Tesla Investor’s Claim Over Musk’s ‘Extraordinary’ $56B Performance Pact September 23, 2019 By Peter Blumberg and Dana Hull A Delaware state judge has rejected a request by the board of Tesla Inc. to dismiss a stockholder complaint over...
Arch Nemesis of Uber over Driver Pay Sues Before New California Law Inked September 13, 2019 By Peter Blumberg It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies...
Women Employees at Oracle Seek Class-Action Status in Gender Pay Lawsuit June 24, 2019 By Peter Blumberg and Joel Rosenblatt Call it the class ceiling. Women suing major technology companies for gender discrimination would have much stronger leverage against their...
Workers Win $1.9 Million Sexual Harassment Settlement with Uber August 22, 2018 By Peter Blumberg The cost of Uber Technologies Inc.’s sexual harassment scandal is now itemized: 56 current and former employees who filed claims...