GE, Safran Find Bogus Parts on More Jet Engines in AOG Probe October 25, 2023 By Ryan Beene CFM International Inc. identified more aircraft engines and forged documents linked to the UK parts distributor behind an alleged scheme...
‘Forever Chemical’ Bans Face Hard Truth: Many Can’t Be Replaced October 24, 2023 By Ryan Beene As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is...
Fake Spare Parts Were Supplied to Fix Top-Selling Jet Engine September 1, 2023 By Julie Johnsson, Ryan Beene and Siddharth Philip European aviation regulators have determined that an obscure London-based company supplied bogus parts for repairs of jet engines that power...
Update: 3M to Pay $6 Billion to Settle Military Earplug Lawsuits August 29, 2023 By Ryan Beene and Jef Feeley 3M Co. has agreed to pay $6 billion to resolve hundreds of thousands of lawsuits alleging it sold defective earplugs...
3M Agrees to Pay More Than $5.5 Billion Over Military Earplugs August 28, 2023 By Jef Feeley and Ryan Beene 3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the...
3M Will Stop Producing ‘Forever Chemical’ PFAS by End of 2025 December 20, 2022 By Tiffany Kary and Ryan Beene 3M Co., confronting regulatory pressure and lawsuits that threaten billions of dollars in damages, will stop making so-called forever chemicals...
3M Bankruptcy Tactic Fails as Combat Earplug Suits Move to Trial August 29, 2022 By Ryan Beene, Jef Feeley and Steven Church 3M Co.’s plan to use controversial bankruptcy rules to shield itself from some 230,000 lawsuits over military earplugs looked like...
Deadly Defect Causes Takata to Issue Another Major Air Bag Recall December 5, 2019 By Ryan Beene Takata Corp., the auto-parts supplier that went bankrupt after its air bags spurred the largest-ever recall, told U.S. safety regulators...
FCC Seen Backing Away from Reserving More Airwaves for Automakers’ Talking Cars November 17, 2019 By Ryan Beene and Todd Shields The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed taking back some of the spectrum long promised to automakers and re-allocating it...
Uber’s Self-Driving Car That Killed Pedestrian Lacked Tech to Detect Jaywalkers November 7, 2019 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving test car that struck and killed a pedestrian last year wasn’t programmed to recognize and react...