Hagens Berman, consumer-rights law firm representing owners of certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles prone to spontaneous engine fires, has filed an amended lawsuit against the automakers with added plaintiffs and harrowing footage of the potentially deadly fires attorneys say are being willfully ignored by Hyundai and Kia.
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The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication and has agreed to become a government witness.
HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $30 million to settle litigation by investors who accused 11 big banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market from 2009 to 2015.
Ashley Judd's multi-pronged legal battle against Harvey Weinstein came to a bit of a crossroads on Wednesday.
U.S. officials had accused the company of installing software that enables certain diesel trucks to emit far more pollutants than emissions laws allow.
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio made a secret appearance before a D.C. grand jury in recent months to testify as part of the Justice Department's expansive investigation into a multibillion-dollar fraud surrounding a Malaysian government investment fund, according to people familiar with the case.
The police collected the DNA of male employees of a private nursing home in Arizona on Tuesday as they continued to investigate allegations that a woman in a vegetative state there who gave birth to a child last month had been sexually assaulted, the nursing home's parent company said.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department that would end a two-year criminal investigation into whether it knowingly sold diesel vehicles that violated clean-air rules, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Gilead Sciences Inc's appeal of a ruling that allowed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it defrauded the government into paying for HIV medications whose main ingredient came from an unregistered Chinese facility to move forward.
A Federal Court judge presiding over the Australian "dieselgate'' class action against Volkswagen has ordered the company to name which board members and those in senior management knew that their diesel-engine cars were fitted with software designed to cheat on a test that measured exhaust emissions.
A German court said Friday it had opened the way for shareholders to join a collective legal action against Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler for diesel cheating that mirrors one already brought against VW.
On Thursday, three ex-Credit Suisse Group AG bankers were arrested in London and face possible extradition to the U.S. on charges related to bribery of officials in Mozambique.
Lyon's archbishop, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and five other figures are on trial on charges of failing to act against sexual abuse allegations targeting a priest in his diocese.
National Geographic Channel has pulled its long-running Neil deGrasse Tyson chat show "StarTalk" off the air, following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Volvo AB, the world's second-largest truckmaker, will set aside $780 million (7 billion kronor) to address a faulty emissions-control component that's worn out more quickly than expected.
The final rules, which implement a mandate from the Dodd-Frank Act, will require disclosure of practices or policies in full, or, alternatively, a summary of those practices or policies that includes a description of any categories of hedging transactions that are specifically permitted or disallowed.
It is not uncommon to make mistakes, especially if you're a car manufacturer, producing thousands of cars in a day. However, while some faults can be shrugged off as minor slip-ups other errors cause the company to recall the cars, sometimes in huge numbers, incurring massive financial losses in the process.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his chief lieutenants are offering contrition and defiance as they face allegations of sexual harassment that plagued his last presidential campaign and now threaten to derail a second White House bid before it begins.
The DOJ collected more than $2.5 billion in judgments and settlements related to healthcare fraud and false claims in 2018.
The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justice's Civil Division announced today.
