The two owners of a Marlborough company accused of bilking investors in a global $1 billion pyramid scheme were criminally charged in federal court Friday, a major escalation of an ongoing investigation into the firm. James M. Merrill, 53,...

By Beth Healy GLOBE STAFF  MAY 06, 2014 A federal judge in Las Vegas has ruled that the TelexFree Inc. bankruptcy case will be moved to Massachusetts, after regulators argued that the Marlborough phone-service company had virtually no operations...

Wal-Mart Elves Get Back $640 Million in “Stolen” Benefits ‘Twas the settlement before Christmas. On the eve of the holidays, Wal-Mart’s Santa is stuffing millions of dollars into the stockings of his little helpers. After years of litigation, its...

Across the country, class action residuals have been successfully used to fund civil legal services for the poor. Texas: An Austin attorney was instrumental in designating more than $2.6 million in court awards to the Texas Access to Justice...

(Reuters) – A Philadelphia jury on Friday found that Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals failed to warn that antipsychotic drug Risperdal could cause male breast growth, in a case filed by a young man who had taken the drug,...

(Bloomberg) — Johnson & Johnson, which paid more than $2 billion to resolve a criminal probe over its antipsychotic drug Risperdal, knew as early as 2001 that the medication caused boys to grow breasts, a former government regulator said...