Ronald L. Motley was a South Carolina lawyer who spearheaded lawsuits against tobacco companies that led them to agree to pay $246 billion in the biggest civil settlement in U.S. history.
Read More »Defrauded company wins back fraction of losses
A Kansas City company that lost millions of dollars from embezzlement is getting back a small portion of its money.
Read More »Buyers wager on Las Vegas, Phoenix
Bubbles are inflating in Nevada and Arizona even as housing in the rest of the country recovers at a more sustainable pace.
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Read More »Johnson & Johnson said to weigh $3B settlement
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest seller of health care products, has discussed paying more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits over its recalled hip implants.
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Read More »Abortion restrictions failing this year in court
State legislatures trying to curtail abortions have suffered a 0-for-8 losing streak after court challenges to their new laws this year.
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Read More »Obama focuses on risk of new bubble
The president has long spoken of the need to escape an era characterized by the excesses of the 1990s dot-com bubble and the unsustainable housing boom of the next decade.
Read More »Twilight of Bernanke years shows no signs of buyer’s remorse
U.S. markets are backing up Ben S. Bernanke’s assertion that he has the best inflation record of any Federal Reserve chairman since World War II.
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Read More »NFL sued by former players over image use
The complaint claims that a settlement reached this year in a similar case in Minnesota doesn’t go far enough to compensate former players.
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Read More »DocX president sentenced for ‘robo-signing’ scheme
Attorney General Chris Koster, who announced Lorraine Brown’s three-year sentences on Friday, said they would run concurrently with a separate five-year federal sentence stemming from similar charges involving falsified mortgage documents.
Read More »Justice Department to sue Texas over Voter-ID law
The suit marks the second time in as many months that the Justice Department has moved to push back against Texas on voting issues.
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Read More »Jury convicts investment adviser in prepaid funeral case
David Wulf, an adviser to a trust whose assets were siphoned off, was the only defendant to go to trial in the estimated $600 million criminal fraud case over the collapse of insurance company National Prearranged Services Inc.
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