Director Scorsese Sued in N.Y. Over Medical Exam
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A Hollywood film production house says  it has failed to get director Martin Scorsese to a doctor, so  the company is dragging him to court.
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New York state health authorities launched a campaign Tuesday urging major film studio owners to protect children from seeing movies with smoking scenes.
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NEW YORK - A lawsuit targeting "Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio and two other men for their alleged roles in a street fight over "Showgirls" actress Elizabeth Berkley was thrown out by a judge Wednesday.    DiCaprio, 29, and others were sued for $45 million by Roger Wilson, 44, who claimed DiCaprio encouraged his friends to attack him outside a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the early hours of May 4, 1998...
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Ailing ground zero workers are going to court to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund uses it to pay for their health care.
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The state and city of New York on Monday filed suit against Merck & Co. Inc., claiming the drugmaker concealed the risks of the withdrawn arthritis treatment Vioxx.
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A U.S. law firm plans to file a lawsuit seeking class-action status against Sanofi-Aventis  on behalf of shareholders, alleging the pharmaceuticals group hid the side-effects of its anti-obesity drug Acomplia, French daily Les Echos reported.
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The Santa Monica law firm suing the City in the Farmers Market tragedy took pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson to court Tuesday, claiming its over-the-counter pain relief
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A lawsuit filed against musician Lenny Kravitz alleges one of the toilets in his New York City penthouse became clogged causing water damage.
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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese plans to direct an authorized documentary about George Harrison, the former Beatle who died of lung cancer in 2001, Daily Variety reported on Thursday.
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A federal class-action lawsuit filed in Boston yesterday on behalf of Massachusetts smokers demands that Philip Morris USA Inc. pay for computerized chest scans for its customers in an effort to detect early-stage lung cancer.
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New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi sued Merck &amp; Co. over pension fund losses related to Vioxx, the painkiller pulled from the market on Sept.
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Four-time Grammy Award winner Lenny Kravitz is being sued for more than &#36;300,000 by an insurance company that claims the rocker let his toilet overflow into a neighbor's apartment, causing "catastrophic water damage."
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California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has sued MetLife, Prudential Financial Inc., Cigna Corp., and UnumProvident Corp.
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into if insurers forced patients to overpay for out-of-network doctors.
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The film producer behind The English Patient sues two studios over the film's profit share.
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Javier Bardem, star of Oscar-nominated  "The Sea Inside," is being sued by a woman who says the Spanish  actor hit her in the face while drunk and dancing at a New York  nightclub, her lawyer said on Friday.
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Sharon Stone is taking a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to court because she says he falsely claimed to have given her a facelift. Sharon says Dr Renato Calabria slandered and libelled her by telling magazines that he performed cosmetic surgery on her.