Two United States Army veterans have filed civil suits against 3M for injuries they’ve sustained as a result of the corporation’s design and manufacturing of faulty earplugs and then knowingly selling them to the US government.
Earlier this year, 3M settled with the government after a whistleblower contacted officials and informed them that not only was it buying faulty earplugs to protect the hearing of ...
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Contrary to common belief, car dealers are generally not affiliated with the manufacturers of the vehicles they sell. Cars sitting on a dealer’s lot were purchased by that dealer to be re-sold to the public. It is essentially a retail relationship except the items are large, heavy, complicated, and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
So what happens when a dealer buys a parking lot full of Volkswagens, only ...
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On a day that Merck announced its intent to lay off 8,500 employees, a federal judge approved a settlement in which Merck agreed to pay $688 million for allegedly defrauding shareholders.
Merck agreed to pay this amount in order to resolve a class action lawsuit in which it was alleged that the company withheld adverse results of a clinical trial of Vytorin and Zetia, two anti-cholesterol drugs. The purpose of ...
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