Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $40 million to nearly 90,000 current and former Massachusetts workers who sued the retail giant for allegedly withholding their wages and cutting short or denying their meal and rest breaks. A proposed agreement covers...

A California federal judge floated the possibility of appointing separate counsel Thursday for a class of indirect cathode ray tubes purchasers, after saying he shouldn't have cleared a $576.8 million bundle of antitrust settlements and admonishing the current attorneys...

Cost of local crime cited by county leaders DOVER — The Strafford and Rockingham county commissioners, along with five other Granite State counties and several communities, have filed a series of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they believe are responsible...

SALEM, N.H., Sept. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders in the fight against the opioid abuse Thomas Tombarello and George Maglaras, President and Immediate Past President of the New Hampshire Association of Counties announced today that six New Hampshire counties and several New Hampshire cities and towns took action to...

Plaintiffs accuse companies of downplaying risks, recruiting doctors MANCHESTER, N.H. — New lawsuits filed by six New Hampshire counties and two towns are aimed at trying to recoup millions of dollars lost by local governments in the state's opioid...

Commissioner said any proceeds would go to recovery programs BRENTWOOD — The Rockingham County Commission has retained a law firm to sue opioid makers and plans to use any proceeds for county recovery programs, said Commissioner Tom Tombarello. By unanimous...