Judge Rejects First Brands’ Plan to Pay Down Debts by Pursuing Lawsuits August 25, 2026 By Dietrich Knauth A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Monday rejected auto parts maker First Brands’ proposal to pay back creditors by pursuing litigation...
SEC Sues Former Executives of Collapsed Auto Lender Tricolor August 20, 2026 By Chris Prentice and Manya Saini The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued the former CEO and two other top executives of Tricolor, the...
Gallagher: Securities Class-Action Settlement Dollars Up $48% in H1 August 17, 2026 By Chad Hemenway For the first half of 2026, when it comes to securities class actions, the plaintiffs bar is winning, according to...
SEC to Keep Hands Off Shareholder Proposals, Worrying Activists August 17, 2026 By Ross Kerber The top U.S. financial regulator on Friday made permanent its decision to cease judging whether companies may exclude shareholder resolutions...
Almost All Top US Companies Had Board Diversity Rules. Now Most Are Gone August 14, 2026 By Jeff Green and Daniela Sirtori Three years ago, nearly every major US company explicitly considered diversity when choosing new directors. Now, most don’t. In all,...
UnitedHealth Investor Suit Alleges Security, Governance Lapses August 13, 2026 By John Tozzi and David Voreacos UnitedHealth Group Inc. board members ignored a raft of governance and oversight risks for years before catastrophic failures triggered billions...
Taylor Farms, Taco Bell Face Multiple Lawsuits Over Cyclospora Outbreak August 11, 2026 By William Rabb Multiple proposed class-action lawsuits have been filed over the nationwide cyclospora outbreak, blaming Taco Bell and Taylor Farms for selling...
Trump’s Diversity Crackdown Reverberates Through US Boardrooms July 28, 2026 By Ross Kerber, Bianca Flowers and Simon Jessop As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign against diversity programs, appointments of women and racial minorities to S&P 500...
Google Ordered to Defend Robby Starbuck’s AI Defamation Suit July 27, 2026 By Mike Leonard Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC lost its bid Friday to escape a court case dangling the specter of legal liability for...
Amgen Settles Shareholder Lawsuit Claiming it Hid $10.7 Billion Tax Bill July 22, 2026 By Jonathan Stempel Amgen reached a $74 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the biotechnology company of waiting too long to disclose that...