A key aspect of any personal injury or product liability case involving a vehicular accident is the reconstruction of that accident. Accident reconstruction is the ability to determine the path the vehicles traveled, the angle of the impact, the speeds involved, and the rotations of the vehicles. It is exactly what it sounds [...]
Every year, the major business magazines put out their annual surveys of big business in America. Their lists rank big corporations by sales, assets, profits, and market share. The goal of these surveys is to identify the biggest and most profitable corporations. But, there is another list – complied by the Corporate Crime [...]
The House Judiciary Committee wants to know why the Justice Department abruptly dropped a federal criminal probe into allegations of insurance fraud at Berkshire Hathaway’s General Reinsurance (Gen Re) unit. In a letter sent to Paul J. McNulty dated July 9, 2007, the Judiciary Committee asked detailed questions about the aborted investigation. McNulty [...]
Merck & Co., Inc. has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to resolve Vioxx-related claims in which a claimant has suffered a heart attack, sudden cardiac death, or stroke.
After more than five years of litigation, Merck has agreed to settle some 27,000 Vioxx lawsuits for a record $4.85 billion.
The litigation involving thousands of Vioxx lawsuits [...]
