Business

Andrew Sorkin for the The New York Times questions in his article whether the $9 billion sought by 100,000 complainants about the hiring practices in Silicon Valley was just right.

Retired US Securities and Exchange Commission trial lawyer James Kidney's latest criticism against the US Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts in bringing cases against Wall Street leaders underlines the agency's lack of teeth in holding entities responsible for the 2008 credit crisis.

A decision of a Lafayette, Louisiana court jury has ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co and Eli Lilly & Co to pay a total of $9 billion in punitive damages to complainant Terrence Allen, who claimed the Japanese drug Actos had caused him to develop bladder cancer.