After a Delay of Years, Mazda Recalls 4.9 Million Vehicles
As attention to auto safety intensified after General Motors’ admission last year that it had failed for a decade to disclose a deadly defect in millions of cars, many automakers have scrambled to address lingering safety problems.
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This week, Mazda became the latest automaker to do so, revealing for the second time...
Judge Approves Settlement of Suit on Rikers Island Brutality
A federal judge gave final approval on Wednesday to a far-reaching settlement agreement intended to remake Rikers Island by addressing pervasive brutality at the New York City jail complex.
The decision brought an end to four years of contentious litigation over alleged abuses at Rikers and made way for various changes, including the addition of...
Volkswagen Suspends 5th Executive in Emissions Scandal
FRANKFURT — Volkswagen has suspended its top quality-control executive, a person close to the company said on Tuesday, as the company’s widening emissions scandal is sidelining some of the carmaker’s most seasoned managers.
The executive, Frank Tuch, 48, Volkswagen’s head of quality control, is the fifth in a high-ranking post to be suspended in connection...
Millennium Health Ends DOJ Probe, Said to Prepare for Ch. 11
Millennium Health LLC agreed to pay $256 million to resolve claims that it misrepresented the need for procedures and offered gifts to doctors in exchange for referrals.
The biggest U.S. lab-testing company now plans to file for bankruptcy protection by Nov. 10, enabling it to turn over control of the business to its lenders, according...
Study: Two-thirds of new cancer drugs don’t extend life
Two-thirds of new cancer drugs in the past five years were approved not because they extended or improved life but based on so-called surrogate measures of effectiveness, such as scans showing tumor shrinkage, according to a paper published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
What's more, even four years after being allowed on the market by...
Suing A Nursing Home Could Get Easier Under Proposed Federal Rules
As Dean Cole's dementia worsened, he began wandering at night. He'd even forgotten how to drink water. His wife, Virginia, could no longer manage him at home. So after much agonizing, his family checked him into a Minnesota nursing home.
"Within a little over two weeks he'd lost 20 pounds and went into a coma,"...
Volkswagen to Recall 8.5 Million Vehicles in Europe
BERLIN — Reacting to pressure from German regulators, Volkswagen on Thursday recalled its entire fleet of rigged diesel cars in Europe, as the carmaker scrambles to come up with a remedy for its emissions cheating.
While a broad recall has been expected, the move reflects the...
Lawsuit seeks Volkswagen buyback of emissions-cheating diesels in California
California owners of Volkswagen diesel cars caught up in the emissions-test rigging scandal might have a shot at getting the German automaker to buy back the vehicles.
A Seattle law firm filed a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen in Los Angeles federal court Monday demanding an immediate buyback under California emissions laws.
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Questions Raised on VW’s Reporting of U.S. Deaths, Injuries
Even as Volkswagen struggles to deal with its diesel emissions scandal, new data raise questions about whether the automaker has properly reported death and injury claims to U.S. regulators over the past decade.
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For Families of Germanwings Victims, Anger Simmers Through Grief
HALTERN AM SEE, Germany — Weeks before he was supposed to fly to Barcelona, Spain, for a student exchange program with his 10th-grade Spanish class, Steffen Strang realized that he would miss a home game of the soccer team he followed religiously. Maybe, he told his mother, he should stay home.
The response Dagmar Strang...
