Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an investigation by 42 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. into its marketing of baby powder and other talc-based products blamed for allegedly causing cancer.
Read More Johnson & Johnson Reaches $700M Talc Settlement Over Baby Powder And Other Products
Dozens of former inmates at youth detention centers across Illinois have come forward saying they were abused by correctional workers.
Read More Lawsuit Alleges Child Sex Abuse At Several Illinois Detention Centers
Johnson & Johnson stated that they are planning to pay $6.5 billion to settle nearly all the lawsuits in the United States that have claimed talc-based products caused them ovarian cancer.
Read More Johnson & Johnson To Pay $6.5B To Settle Nearly All Talc Ovarian Cancer Lawsuits
Some western banks are lobbying against EU proposals to redistribute billions of euros in interest earned on frozen Russian assets.
Read More Western banks warn of risks in EU plan to grab Russian assets, sources say
The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software.
Read More Apple antitrust suit mirrors strategy that beat Microsoft, but tech industry has changed
Bayer was ordered to pay the highest amount yet in its ongoing litigation linked to an alleged carcinogenic effect of its Roundup weedkiller.
Read More Bayer shares fall nearly 6% on court order to pay $2.25 bln in damages