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Royal Philips Electronics, Europe’s largest television-set maker, was sued by an Italian businessman who claims he was misled when he bought $266 million of notes in a joint venture that failed. Carlo Vichi, founder of TV-set maker Mivar di Carlo ...

Having clean offices is something you and your employees want to take for granted. When an executive leaves her office the evening before a big 9 a.m. meeting, she doesn’t want to wonder whether the cleaning service is going to ...

A man whose face was injured by a flying puck at a Florence Pride hockey game in South Carolina could not recover damages from the team, the league or the arena, the state Supreme Court has ruled in an apparent ...

Bush administration ordered to resume hurricane aid The Bush administration must resume making housing benefit payments to thousands of people displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington said the Federal ...

Officers from the Department of Wildlife Preservation search for flood victims Sept. 8, 2005, in an area of St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans, La. A judge this week ruled insurers such as Allstate Insurance Co. could not use flood ...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court this week wrestled with its first global warming case, a bid by states and environmentalists to force the Bush administration to regulate tailpipe emissions. Several justices, led by Antonin Scalia and John Roberts, questioned whether ...

Disasters, even those as sweeping as Hurricane Katrina, do not cancel out attorneys’ duties to their clients, lawyers participating in an American Bar Association online legal education course were told this week. Malcolm Meyer, a Tulane University law professor, said ...

Maryland seeks to revive law on Wal-Mart health-care spending Maryland asked a U.S. appeals court to revive a law that would force Wal-Mart to spend more on health care for its 17,000 employees in the state. Steven Sullivan, Maryland’s solicitor ...

You step up to a voting machine, insert the card and touch the computer screen to record your choice in each and every race. As you finish, the computer lets you review your ballot but shows no X next to ...

Drue Jennings, senior counsel at Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, is this year’s Kansas Citian of the Year, named by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. contributed photo Of all the chamber dinners Drue Jennings has attended, this year’s will ...

Interstate Bakeries Corp., based in Kansas City, faces a suit from one of its investors over not holding an annual meeting to elect directors. Photo by Tina Fineberg/Bloomberg News Interstate Bakeries Corp., the maker of Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread, ...