Merck & Co. prevailed in an appeal seeking to revive lawsuits alleging its HPV vaccine Gardasil was unsafe and the pharmaceutical company failed to warn patients and doctors the vaccine could cause autoimmune injuries.

An Indiana metal plating company settled a lawsuit claiming it contaminated soil and groundwater with hazardous substances, including hexavalent chromium and PFAS.

Disney’s price hikes are similar to Big Law’s billing rate increases.

Gas stations in California would be allowed to sell blends of gasoline containing up to 15% ethanol under a bill approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.

A Houston judge who rejected Johnson & Johnson‘s third attempt to resolve mass tort talc liabilities in bankruptcy relented to adjudicate requests for millions of dollars in legal fees that have been pending since he dismissed the case months ago.

The metal giant Teck Resources will go to trial over lead-zinc smelt river contamination on a native tribe’s Northeast Washington reservation after a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that the cultural loss to fish and wildlife count as damages.