Roche Holding AG faces a lineup of Hollywood stars in the New Jersey trial of an actor’s lawsuit alleging he suffered the loss of his colon after taking the company’s Accutane acne drug.

A motorized wheelchair may be to blame for a Corpus Christi, Texas house fire that displaced a family of four earlier this month. Fortunately, no one was injured in the blaze. Surprisingly, motorized wheelchair fires are not unheard of. In fact, in 2000, Invacare Corp., the largest maker of battery-operated wheelchairs in the country, [...]

The Natural Resources Defense Council just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. NRDC filed the [...]

The Metropolitan District Commission got a raw deal. The nonprofit municipal water company, which owns reservoirs upstate, is getting soaked in a $2.9 million verdict for injuries a mountain biker suffered when she slammed headlong into a closed gate at the West Hartford reservoir.

Don Yoon’s family perished in an inferno of jet fuel when a F/A-18D Hornet crashed on their University City home.