Meta Plans Nearly $1 Billion Data Center Project in Wisconsin April 7, 2025 By Brody Ford, Riley Griffin and Josh Saul Meta Platforms Inc. plans to spend nearly $1 billion on the development of a data center project in central Wisconsin,...
US to Deploy More Than $50 Million to Shield Private Hospitals From Cyberattacks May 21, 2024 By Riley Griffin The US government is seeking to play a more active role in protecting the private health-care sector from a deluge...
Hack That Paralyzed US Health Care Turns Up Scrutiny on Insurer April 30, 2024 By John Tozzi, Riley Griffin and Jordan Robertson When a cyberattack on Change Healthcare paralyzed much of the US health-care system, some lawmakers saw it as proof its...
Cancer Clinics Face Cash Crunch After Hack Rocks US Health Care March 13, 2024 By John Tozzi, Riley Griffin and Ike Swetlitz Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company...
Tainted Medication Fears Spur Defense Department to Seek Outside Testing August 10, 2023 By Anna Edney and Riley Griffin The US Department of Defense entered an agreement with Valisure, an independent lab that’s spotted dangerous chemicals in a variety...
Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question. December 3, 2019 By Riley Griffin, Katherine Chiglinsky and David Voreacos, Bloomberg By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a...
J&J Hit with Year’s Largest Jury Award Over Marketing Risperdal Drug to Teens October 9, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit was hit with an $8 billion punitive-damages verdict — the largest jury award in the...
Opioid Trial Judge, Overseeing 2,000 Lawsuits, Denies Bias, Refuses to Step Down September 26, 2019 By Riley Griffin The Cleveland judge overseeing more than 2,000 federal lawsuits over alleged opioid abuses refused to disqualify himself from a bellwether...
Other Opioid Lawsuit Plaintiffs Welcome Oklahoma Ruling Affirming Public Nuisance August 27, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin While some Johnson & Johnson investors were relieved that the company’s $572 million penalty for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic wasn’t...
Drug Maker Endo Skirts Trial, Settles Its Opioid Claims for $11 Million August 21, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Endo International Plc agreed to an $11 million settlement to avoid going to trial in the first federal court cases...