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...Every fortnight, retired business owner Carolyn Davis drives more than 300 miles from her home in Florida’s Pensacola Beach to a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, for an hour-long infusion of a novel medicine...
...It’s not a miracle drug,” the 38-year-old small-business owner from Georgia said, pointing to lifestyle changes she has made alongside the injections....
...The court is deliberating on another case, Relentless Inc vs Department of Commerce, that seeks to overturn a 40-year-old legal doctrine that says courts should generally defer to agencies’ interpretation...
...They argue that bankruptcy schemes deployed by solvent corporations are an abuse of bankruptcy courts and deny wronged people their right to trial by jury....
...Legal experts said the ruling could set a precedent and dissuade companies from using complex bankruptcy schemes to handle mass tort claims. 3M, Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, Trane Technologies...
...For example, last year Georgia-Pacific paid $2.5bn in dividends to Koch Industries even though it spun off a unit facing thousands of asbestos claims in 2017....
...The first of these cases was filed in 2017 by Georgia Pacific, a subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries which still faces billions of dollars of asbestos claims....
...“This is a bridge too far in a case already replete with questionable manipulations of the bankruptcy code by one of the wealthiest corporations on earth,” the states wrote in the filing....
...Since the beginning of October, Maga Inc, a newly created Trump super Pac, has spent $8.5mn on ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona....
...“The divisive merger law allows a Texas corporation to unilaterally rid itself of some or all of its debts by so declaring. How could anyone think such a law would not be abused?”...
...Critics worry that taxpayers’ money is being lavished on corporations, but supporters see incentives as a down payment on a region’s future economic gains....
...Six of the states — Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee — had vaccination rates below the national average....
...Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific is using a similar manoeuvre to try to limit its liabilities against asbestos claims....
...“Georgia is the leading edge of a movement all around this country to restrict voting access,” Frazier told CNBC on Wednesday....
...To avoid a huge backlash in the middle of the Olympic Games, it’s time for the heads of Japan Inc to come out and speak....
...Of these, the bulk was done by just two companies: Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America....
...A shot at redemption For the bigger corporations, many of which have had their reputations tarnished by scandals involving issues such as drug pricing and unethical marketing, Covid-19 may also offer a...
...He was previously a senior vice-president in the office of strategic initiatives at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)....
...Lord Global Corporation, formerly called Bigfoot Projects Inc, is financing the distribution of Virolens machines in Australia, Latin America and south-east Asia through KeyOptions, an Australian company...
...The tests are still undergoing clinical trials....
...We cannot leave all this to powerful private corporations. Companies certainly have a duty to refrain from launching inadequately tested products on to the market....
...Much of it is concerned with Covid-19 and there is a section on biomedical and clinical research....
...Recently, judges there allowed a lawsuit to go ahead that alleges Clovis Oncology’s board “ignored” red flags about safety in clinical trials....
..., New York, April 15 1976; William Paley, chairman, CBS Inc, New York, April 13 1976; Barbara Jordan, US congresswoman (Texas), New York, July 14 1976; Frank Fitzsimmons, president, International Brotherhood...
...‘Everybody has to have a plan’ California-based Symantec said last month that it had recorded three instances of deepfaked audio attacks on corporations in 2019....
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