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...

REZULIN: Lawsuits against Maker of Diabetes Drug Pile up ——————————————————– Lawsuits against the maker of Rezulin, the diabetes drug withdrawn from the market after it was blamed for at least 63 deaths, are piling up as both individuals and...

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...

A lawyer representing victims of the alleged TelexFree Inc. fraud in a class-action lawsuit has named numerous defendants in the case, including Bank of America Corp. and the audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to the lawsuit, which consolidated the civil...