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On Wednesday, a Minneapolis jury ordered Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay an 87-year-old man $1.7 million because its antibiotic Levaquin damaged his Achilles tendons. It was the first verdict from about 2,600 similar lawsuits filed so far.

Two Marsh & McLellan executives who were convicted in an insurance industry bid-rigging case saw their convictions overturned Wednesday because the New York Attorney General's office failed to turn over 700,000 documents, including exculpatory and impeaching evidence.

BP announced on Wednesday that Bob Dudley has replaced CEO Tony Hayward as the person in charge of the oil giant%u2019s long-term response to capping the leaking deep-water oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and cleaning up the environmental damage.

The call, "cleanup needed in aisle three," will likely never sound the same to a Long Island woman who claims she was injured after a display of spaghetti sauce toppled onto to her at a Queens supermarket. Patricia Samaroo, 55, was reaching for a jar of the sauce when the display toppled, dowsing...