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AstraZeneca Plc, the U.K.’s second- biggest drugmaker, won an appeals court ruling that will block generic versions of its top-selling cholesterol medicine Crestor in the U.S. until July 2016.
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AstraZeneca Plc agreed to pay $68.5 million to 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations that the company deceptively marketed its anti-psychotic drug Seroquel.
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Frank Amodeo, founder of a private- equity fund that sought bankruptcy protection last year, was sentenced to almost 23 years in prison in what prosecutors say was the largest payroll-tax fraud case in U.S. history.
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Ex-McKinsey & Co. director Anil Kumar told a jury that Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam secretly hired him as a consultant in 2003 for $500,000 to be paid into a Swiss bank account, in violation of McKinsey rules.
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AstraZeneca Plc will pay about $198 million to settle 17,500 lawsuits, or about two-thirds of the total cases alleging its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes in some users.
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Repurchase agreements are set to be excluded from a proposed European Union financial transaction tax, an EU official said.
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A group of Indiana pension funds that hold first-lien debt of Chrysler LLC objected to a plan to auction the company’s assets and said a U.S. District Court judge should rule on whether the sale is lawful.
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Amaranth Advisors LLC, the hedge fund that lost $6.6 billion in September 2006, sued Paul Touradji and his employees, seeking at least $350 million for claims including breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets.
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Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG filed claims in London against the region of Lombardy, pre- empting the municipal authority’s plan to sue the banks in the Italian courts in a dispute about derivatives fees.
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Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. are being pulled into an expanding congressional investigation about the agreement drugmakers reached with the Obama administration to support the Democrats’ overhaul of the U.S. health-care system, according to three people familiar with the talks.
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