A Canadian court approved a plan to settle long-running tobacco lawsuits in the country as part of which the units of three Big Tobacco companies will pay C$32.5 billion ($22.67 billion), Philip Morris and British American Tobacco said on Friday. …
Attorneys seeking approval of the $2.8 billion legal settlement for college sports pointed to nearly 102,000 athletes who signed up to receive damages from the action, while batting down objections to what they described as the “intergalactic paradigm shift” the …
U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Tuesday toward a bid by two American gun companies to throw out the Mexican government’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels and fueling gun violence in the southern …
Johnson & Johnson told a judge its $9 billion proposal to settle baby powder cancer claims in bankruptcy court is the only viable way to end more than 15 years of litigation, while opponents assailed the company’s efforts to line …
California’s $21 billion wildfire fund may shield Edison International’s balance sheet if equipment owned by the company’s electric utility is found to have caused a deadly Los Angeles fire last month, Edison’s CEO said on Thursday. Southern California Edison, one …
Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022. Four ex-Twitter workers have prevailed in a recent series of closed-door arbitration proceedings over claims they were illegally …
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to lean on Wednesday toward making it easier for people from “majority backgrounds,” such as white or straight people, to pursue workplace discrimination claims, as they heard an appeal by an Ohio woman who claims …
Walgreens said it had entered into a settlement agreement with telemedicine provider Everly Health Solutions as part of which the pharmacy chain operator will pay the company $595 million over a contract dispute for COVID-19 testing. The settlement, payable within …
As consumer complaints have apparently mounted over unpaid hurricane losses, Florida’s top insurance regulator and some lawmakers are signaling new scrutiny on insurance carriers’ claims-handling and other practices. Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky late last week posted a memo, demanding …
A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers to hire foreign workers because it can pay them less than American workers. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San …