Authors and publishers of controversial scientific articles, and the companies sponsoring those articles, won broad free speech protection from a...
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Multi-million dollar payouts for legal malpractice claims are climbing, and so are the total number of claims for law firms,...
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg can continue his $25 billion lawsuit against the U.S. over losses from the bailout of his former...
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has released a Pandemic Flu Model, which it says captures the excess morbidity,...
Gap Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are among U.S. retailers finalizing an agreement to establish a $50 million, five-year fund...
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. agreed to sell its U.K. variable-annuity business to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for about $285 million...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday forcing the federal government to recognize same-sex marriage in states where it is...

Britain’s BP has stepped up its campaign for a revision of the way compensation for its 2010 Gulf of Mexico...