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BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Lorraine Woellert |
A Break For The Defense As doctors who validate tort claims come under scrutiny, business is on the offensive. |
Reason August 2002 Michael McMenamin |
Knave of Torts Cooler coffee for $3 million and other lawyer bargains: a review of Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law, by Carl T. Bogus |
Food Processing April 2012 Melissa Jones |
California's Proposition 65 Applies to All Food Processors Any food and beverage manufacturer who sells products in California can be sued. |
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007 Michael Orey |
How Business Trounced The Trial Lawyers By focusing on litigation reform at the state level, business has won key battles. Suddenly, it's a tough time to be a plantiffs' attorney. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Spencer E. Ante |
Was IBM Hazardous To Workers' Health? A lawsuit claims chemicals used in making chips and drives caused cancer |
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
DuPont found liable for cancer case DuPont faces thousands of lawsuits over emissions of perfluorooctanoic acid into the Ohio river |
Reactive Reports Issue 55 David Bradley |
You Want Benzene With That Soda? An international chemical health story came to a head earlier this year, as consumers learned that soft drinks could be contaminated with levels of benzene far higher than national and international drinking water standards allow. |
BusinessWeek July 10, 2006 Lorraine Woellert |
Does Welding Make You Sick? The welding industry won an early round, but a mass tort battle could be brewing. |
BusinessWeek June 22, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
Reason March 2007 Walter Olson |
Dangerous When in Power In the U.S., does government protect us from hazardous products, or does it put us in harm's way? |
CFO November 1, 2003 Russ Banham |
Unequal Justice The Bush Administration's broad hope for tort reform has now been limited to class-action legislation. |
Salon.com May 24, 2002 Megan McArdle |
Can we sue our own fat asses off? Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 |
Legal: Jumping the Pond Class-action lawsuits are commonplace in the United States. Now, aggregate litigation is a looming threat in Europe. |
Food Processing March 2013 Biderman & Young |
How Food and Beverage Manufacturers Can Avoid Class Action Litigation The recent suits against energy drink makers are lessons for all food and beverage processors. |
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Jackpot Justice, the Wal-Mart Case No one knows how to definitively resolve the abuses and dangers of class action suits without denying the underdog access to the courts. |
Managed Care January 2002 Donald Wilcox & Stephanie Kanwit |
Debating RICO Suits vs. Health Plans States Failed To Protect Docs From Insurers... Patients Will Suffer; Greedy Lawyers to Blame... |
Entrepreneur August 2005 Jane Easter Bahls |
Action Sacked A new law aims to protect you from class-action suits. Under the new law, all class-action lawsuits with plaintiffs from more than one state will have to be filed in federal courts, which tend to be less sympathetic than state courts to these suits. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Bias Suits A Supreme Court review of a massive gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart could usher in new rules regarding class actions. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2008 Anne B. Schmidt |
Provention Plan Property owners can reduce their risk of asbestos-related litigation. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2005 Rich Duprey |
DuPont's Sticky Situation The chemical giant pays largest civil fine ever levied over chemical used to make Teflon. Investors may want to consider how the mounting legal bills will affect their investments. |
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Cohen & Lourens |
South African Miners' New Legal Option Some of the world's biggest gold mining companies may pay a total of up to $100 billion for their apartheid-era treatment of miners. |
Information Today January 2007 George H. Pike |
Legal Update: Where the Lawsuits Are Updates on lengthy search-related lawsuits involving Google and Microsoft. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Bill Mann |
Attack of the Killer Attorneys It's inevitable in every investor's career that he or she will hold a company that will attract class action lawsuits alleging some form of securities fraud. |
Managed Care April 2001 |
Court Ruling May Mean Resolution Or Revolution A key federal court ruling was expected at press time on a series of lawsuits against the HMO industry. Additionally, the nation's largest managed care operator reportedly is negotiating a settlement... |
The Motley Fool December 10, 2007 Toby Shute |
Here Come the Climate-Change Lawsuits Companies are potentially vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits if they either fail to properly disclose the risk of potential climate change regulations, or to demonstrate efforts to mitigate those risks. |
Food Engineering June 14, 2007 |
Tech Flash Vol. 3 No. 6 Benzene in soft drinks?... General Mills raising US cereal prices... Starbucks cuts the fat... Confronting food counterfeiting and pirating... etc. |
CFO March 1, 2003 Joan Urdang |
Return to Sender? Companies often fail to collect on class-action lawsuits. |
Inc. August 2003 Anne Marie Borrego |
Fairer Class Action Small-business lobbies are hailing a bill that will make it harder to win a class-action lawsuit. |