May 28, 2014
German drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim has agreed to pay more than 4,000 plaintiffs a total of $650 million in damages stemming from dangerous side effects of its blood-thinning drug Pradaxa. Boehringer has been accused of knowing that Pradaxa users were at...
May 21, 2014
Federal investigators have determined that General Motors withheld information relating to Februarys ignition switch recall for too long before revealing their findings. The company is now being fined $35 million for these issues. Aside from being named in 79 customer...
Apr 23, 2014
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Apr 16, 2014
Joan Claybrook, former head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety sent a letter to General Motors CEO Mary Barra suggesting that the manufacturer vetoed a safer ignition switch...
Apr 3, 2014
On April 1, 2014, General Motors CEO, Marry Barr, was pressed for details on what GM knew about the faulty ignition switch defect at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. Since February, GM has recalled more than 6 million vehicles globally for various...
Mar 31, 2014
As the risk of fracking-induced earthquakes continues to rise, several states have come together to strengthen industry regulations on the disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing. At a March meeting in Oklahoma City, regulators from Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma...
