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Honda must pay more than $484 million to resolve customers’ financial losses related to vehicles equipped with shrapnel-shooting airbags from Takata and step up its efforts to ensure the dangerous safety devices are repaired.

The settlement, which must still be approved by a judge, resolves owners’ claims of economic damages suffered as a result of...

Wells Fargo & Co.’s disclosure Thursday that employees may have opened significantly more unauthorized accounts than previously stated could jeopardize a $142 million class-action settlement with customers that won preliminary approval from a judge in July.  

The scandal that helped hasten the lawsuit came to light almost a year ago, after regulators slapped Wells...

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of well over 1 billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches.

Wednesday night’s decision from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, was a setback for efforts by Verizon Communications Inc, which...

Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. It’s a staggering rise of more than 22 percent over the 52,404 drug deaths recorded the previous year — and even higher than The New York Times’s...

Pet chicks and ducklings seem unlikely culprits in a serious public health problem. But they’re responsible for infecting more than 900 people with salmonella this year — the highest number to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The agency is investigating multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections linked to people who keep...

Wells Fargo's fake accounts scandal expanded Thursday with the disclosure of roughly 1.4 million more potentially unauthorized accounts than the bank originally estimated when the embarrassing episode emerged nearly a year ago.

The announcement confirmed Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan's Aug. 22 forecast that the investigation likely would confirm wider consumer damage from the scandal...

The Food and Drug Administration has recalled 465,000 pacemakers after discovering security vulnerabilities that could let hackers reprogram the devices, potentially putting patient lives at risk.

Several devices from Abbott (formerly known as St. Jude Medical) are included in the recall, which the FDA says is intended as a "corrective action", including the Accent,...

Amazon blindsides competitors all the time. Now, it’s getting accused of blurring its customers’ vision.

The online behemoth has been slapped with a lawsuit from a couple in South Carolina who say they’re suffering from blurred vision, headaches and other symptoms after watching the solar eclipse last week through a faulty pair of eclipse glasses...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by a couple who claims defective eclipse glasses purchased through the online retailer damaged their eyes.

In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in South Carolina on Tuesday evening, Corey Payne and his fiancée, Kayla Harris, said they purchased a...

Medical device maker Abbott on Monday announced it is voluntarily recalling some 465,000 pacemakers to install a firmware update to patch cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the devices.

The recall affects six pacemaker models—Accent, Accent MRI, Accent ST, Allure, Anthem and Assurity—that Abbott acquired when it completed its purchase of St. Jude Medical last January.