Jef Feeley

The Citgo Petroleum Corp. refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.

(Bloomberg) -- Money manager Mario Gabelli is asking a judge to make the film and TV company Paramount Global hand over files about its merger with Skydance Media so investors can tell what controlling stockholder Shari Redstone is getting in the deal and whether it's fair.

Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with a lawsuit blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of the wildfires still raging in the second-largest US metropolis.

The city of Los Angeles’ electric and water utility was hit with a lawsuit faulting it for not supplying enough water to fight the biggest fire still raging in the second-largest US metropolis.

The plaintiffs claim that a drained and unrepaired reservoir along with inadequate hydrant pressure undercut firefighting efforts.

Bayer AG said it was told by a jury to pay $100 million to some members of a group of former teachers and students at a Seattle-area school who said their exposure at the facility to toxic chemicals made by the company’s Monsanto unit caused brain damage and other injuries.

In Bezug auf toxische Chemikalien-Kontamination an einer Schule im Großraum Seattle ist Bayer in den USA zu einer Zahlung von 100 Millionen Dollar an vier Personen verurteilt worden. Sie hatten unter anderem anderem Hirnschäden auf Kontakt mit polychlorierten Biphenylen (PCB) zurückgeführt, die von der Tochter Monsanto hergestellt worden waren.

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and factories.

Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was sued over the death of a woman whose home burned in one of the catastrophic Los Angeles fires, in a case brought by a prominent civil rights lawyer on behalf of a historically Black community.

(Bloomberg) -- Cantor Fitzgerald LP Chief Executive Officer Howard Lutnick settled a lawsuit over his $50 million bonus tied to Newmark Group Inc. days before he is set to appear in front of the US Senate for a confirmation hearing to run the Commerce Department. Most Read from BloombergWhat Happened to Hanging Out on the Street?How Sanctuary Cities Are Preparing for Another Showdown With TrumpTexas HOA Charged With Discrimination for Banning Section 8 RentersBillionaire Developer Caruso Slams L