U.S. Probes Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple Inc. violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed older iPhone models, according to people familiar with the matter.
The government has requested information from the company, according to the people, who asked not to be...
U.S. judge sentences Novelion’s Aegerion in drug marketing case
>BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc for improperly marketing a cholesterol drug and ordered that some of the $40.1 million it agreed to pay to resolve a U.S. investigation go to the company’s victims.
U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston had in November rejected an initial plea deal...
How Goodyear Hid Evidence Of ‘The Worst Tire Made In History’ Linked To At Least 9 Deaths
In October 2003, Billy Wayne Woods and his family packed into a luxury $181,000 motorhome for a fun getaway to Florida. Call it a textbook American vacation: their destination was Disney World, and with his wife, Shirley, his son and daughter-in law and two grandchildren in tow, the trip would surely be one to...
Heavy smoking tied to higher diabetes risk for black adults
(Reuters Health) - For black people, smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day is tied to a higher risk of developing diabetes, a U.S. study suggests.
While previous research has found that smokers and black people both have higher risks of diabetes than nonsmokers and individuals from other racial and ethnic backgrounds, the...
Tesla crash highlights a problem: When cars are partly self-driving, humans don’t feel responsible
Was Autopilot on when a Tesla Model S smashed into the back of a parked Culver City fire truck on the 405 Freeway on Monday in broad daylight?
That's what the driver told police. Tesla Inc. — which would have such information because it monitors car and driver behavior over wireless networks — has not...
GM Says It Will Review Safety of Panoramic Sunroofs
General Motors says it has voluntarily begun an internal review of panoramic sunroofs in its vehicles following a Consumer Reports investigation that detailed how hundreds of sunroofs nationwide and across the auto industry have shattered without warning.
“GM has initiated an internal review of our panoramic sunroofs,” the automaker told CR in an email. “We...
Judge orders new Olympus trial over superbug death
A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was publicly tied to deadly superbug outbreaks.
Citing those “willful discovery violations” by the Japanese device giant, King County Superior Court Judge Steve Rosen ordered...
Wells Fargo loses bid to end Philadelphia predatory lending lawsuit
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Philadelphia on Tuesday rejected Wells Fargo & Co’s bid to dismiss that city’s lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. mortgage lender of predatory lending targeting black and Hispanic borrowers.
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody said Philadelphia may pursue claims that the bank’s alleged “reverse redlining” violated the federal Fair Housing...
City-owned hospitals are letting killers loose on the streets: suits
City-owned hospitals are letting psychotic killers slip through their grasp, say a pair of recently-filed lawsuits.
Francisco Perez, who has a history of mental illness, drug abuse and violent behavior, threatened to kill his brother in October 2016 while he was a patient at Metropolitan Hospital Center in East Harlem, says a suit in Bronx...
U.S. Senate Democrats propose fines for credit reporting agency hacks
Two Senate Democrats are proposing large new fines for credit reporting agencies that lose consumers’ personal information in data breaches, according to a bill they introduced on Wednesday.
The bill would impose potentially significant fines against companies like Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian if their cyber security fails to ward off hackers trying to obtain sensitive...
