A 102-year-old woman who was forced to leave the care home where she had lived for nine years has died.
Winifred Humphrey had been told she must leave Bradley House in Whitstable, Kent, because the owners no longer wanted council-funded residents.
She was transferred, with 11 other residents, to another care home less than a mile away on 20 June
The US state of Massachusetts is investigating whether the software giant Microsoft has violated its anti-trust settlement with 18 other states.
Massachusetts said it would look at allegations that the company retaliated against a computer maker for promoting the rival operating system, Linux.
In a court filing, the state said that none of the allegations had been resolved and it would “move forward on an enforcement path should its investigations identify provable violations”
Qwest Communications settled a long-standing consumer fraud lawsuit with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office Monday by agreeing to pay a $3.75 million fine and to better inform customers about their options.
The suit, filed in 2001 by then-Attorney General Janet Napolitano, accused Qwest of numerous violations of Arizona’s Consumer Fraud Act, including placing unauthorized charges on consumers’ bills; failing to disclose charges associated with repairs and installation; engaging in false and misleading advertising; and setting up customer service departments that frustrate consumers’ attempts to resolve problems
LONDON, England — British oil group BP and Russia’s TNK have signed a multibillion-dollar contract to create a joint energy venture, the biggest single foreign investment deal in post-Soviet Russian history.
The agreement, signed Thursday in a joint statement by the companies, will see BP invest a total of $6.15 billion (5
U.S. regulators ordered GlaxoSmithKline Plc to pull radio and print advertisements for its Flonase prescription nasal allergy spray that the Food and Drug Administration deemed misleading
The US government has ordered a drug giant to quit running a series of radio and newspaper ads that call the allergy spray Flonase a cost-effective alternative to pricey allergy pills.
The ad campaign urged allergy sufferers to ask their doctor about Flonase, a nasal spray, instead of antihistamine pills like Allegra and Zyrtec. Flonase maker GlaxoSmithKline began the ads shortly after insurance companies raised prices for the pills this spring
Tyson Foods Inc. pleaded guilty Wednesday to 20 felony violations of the federal Clean Water Act and agreed to pay $7.5 million in criminal and civil fines
Anglo-Swedish drug giant AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $354.9m to settle charges it defrauded the US healthcare system.
The company admitted giving free samples of cancer drugs to doctors, who then billed Medicare for the full price
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Franklin Raines, chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, the nation’s largest home mortgage finance company, said it does not face the same accounting questions as its smaller rival sister Freddie Mac.
On June 9, Freddie Mac replaced its top three executives over an accounting probe about how the No. 2 U