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Dow Chemical Settles PU Price-fixing Case

29.02.2016 - Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $835 million to settle a long-running lawsuit alleging that it – along with other manufacturers – had conspired to keep prices for polyurethane...

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Novartis to Settle With US on Kickback Charges

28.10.2015 - Novartis has agreed to pay $390 million to settle with the US Department of Justice over allegations it used kickbacks to specialist pharmacies to promote sales of some of its...

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Bayer Settles 2008 Fatal Plant Explosion Lawsuit

24.09.2015 - Bayer CropScience has paid $5.6 million to settle violations of US chemical accident prevention laws stemming from a 2008 explosion that killed two people at its Institute, West...

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New Corruption Allegations Against GSK From Syria

28.07.2014 - Allegations of corruption continue to dog British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The latest reports come from Syria, where the drugmaker and its distributor have...

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Transocean to Pay $1.4 Billion for Role in BP Oil Spill

04.01.2013 - Transocean agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle U.S. government charges over BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 and the rig contractor admitted that its crew on the...

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BP Faces Record Fine Over Spill

15.11.2012 - BP is expected to pay a record U.S. criminal penalty and plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster through a plea deal reached with the Department...