Court fines companies in liner accident
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A French court on Monday convicted two construction companies of manslaughter for their roles in a deadly shipyard accident on the world's largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, before it was launched.
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Insurer fined Â£1.26m after failing to take reasonable care of policyholders' details
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A drainage company is fined Â£16,000 after a pensioner was paralysed when he fell down an uncovered manhole.
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The court will consider whether punitive damages can be imposed in the 1989 disaster, an issue worth $2.5 billion to ExxonMobil.
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A U.S. court has ordered  DaimlerChrysler AG and its heavy truck-making unit Freightliner  LLC to pay more than $800 million in a tangled multinational  fraud case, The Oregonian newspaper said on Saturday.
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The companyâs lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the companyâs own product.
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By Cliff Hightower, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 2--DAYTON, Tenn. -- A chemical plant that was the site of an August  blast that killed a worker may face a fine of $91,000 after state officials  said they found 13 serious violations during an investigation.
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A California jury has awarded more  than $300,000 in compensatory damages in a sexual harassment  suit filed against FedEx Corp. on behalf of two female  employees, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs said on Friday.
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A Moscow court ordered oil giant Yukos to pay some $1.4 billion in fines and penalties as part of a $4.1 billion back-tax claim for 2001.
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Two companies working on an industrial estate where a teenager was electrocuted are fined Â£31,000.
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Six gas company employees were sentenced to prison from three to six years Saturday over a gas well leak that killed 243 people in southwestern China, one of the country's worst-ever industrial accidents.
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Human error caused a cruise ship to abruptly tilt at sea last week, sending furniture and debris flying about the boat and injuring 240 passengers, a cruise line official said.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved settlements with Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Mercury Interactive Corp. , the first companies to be fined since the government's crackdown on illegal stock options backdating began more than a year ago.
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A Paris court convicted French oil giant Total SA on Wednesday over the 1999 sinking of an aging and rusting tanker in rough seas, which caused France's worst-ever oil spill.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.
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The Supreme Court sided with two insurance companies Monday in a case involving alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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The US Supreme Court said Monday it would examine the legality under maritime law of damages of 2.5 billion dollars awarded against ExxonMobil for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster.