TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Former Vioxx users getting part of a $4.85 billion settlement ending most personal injury suits over the withdrawn painkiller will get a bigger piece of the pie, thanks to an unusual settlement Thursday with their health insurers.
CHIGAGO - Less than a week before the Bush administration leaves office, federal environmental regulators are issuing a controversial health advisory on drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical used to make Teflon and other non-stick coatings.
A judge has dismissed a predatory lending lawsuit filed by the city of Birmingham, but the case could return to court if the defendant mortgage lenders don't settle.
Tops Personnel Inc. Group Defined Pension Plan & Trust, Jersey City, N.J., today filed suit against Tremont Group Holdings and various subsidiaries, Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. and parent Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. over losses tied to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
Two federal class action lawsuits seeking at least $5 million each and a state complaint asking $165 million in damages have been filed against the Tennessee Valley Authority over the Dec. 22 ash spill in Kingston.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WATE) -- An Alabama law firm with an environmental department has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of people whose property was damaged by the ash slide at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant.
An Alabama law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority on behalf of property owners impacted by a recent coal ash spill in East Tennessee that experts are now beginning to say may be the most significant environmental disaster in the United States since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The CEO and president of the nation's largest public utility vowed to clean up a community encased in sludge after a major coal ash spill, where many residents fear toxic elements could seep into their drinking water.
Harriman, Tennessee - Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking one home off its foundation and putting environmentalists on edge about toxic chemicals that may be seeping into the ground and flowing downriver.
In a single year, a coal-fired electric plant deposited more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials in a holding pond that failed last week, flooding 300 acres in East Tennessee, according to a 2007 inventory filed with the Environmental Protection Agency.
