Judge clears BP's $7.8 bn settlement in US oil spill
British oil giant BP won approval Friday from a US federal judge of a $7.8 billion settlement with people and businesses who lost money and property due to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Feds settle case of woman fired over Facebook site
(AP) -- Employers should think twice before trying to restrict workers from talking about their jobs on Facebook or other social media.
Novartis fined $422.5M in marketing, kickback case
(AP) -- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will pay $422.5 million in penalties for marketing an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe it and five other drugs, ...
China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.
Dell settles federal discrimination suit for $9.1M
(AP) -- Dell Inc. said Friday it has agreed to settle a federal gender-discrimination class action lawsuit brought by former employees for $9.1 million.