A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.

Two years after his stint at the helm of the central bank ended in scandal, Antonio Fazio goes on trial in Milan, accused of rigging markets to keep Italian banks in Italian hands.

A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.

Two years after his stint at the helm of the central bank ended in scandal, Antonio Fazio goes on trial in Milan, accused of rigging markets to keep Italian banks in Italian hands.

A federal jury convicted Alberto W. Vilar of all 12 counts in his securities fraud trial on Wednesday.

The court upheld the right of states to prohibit the sale of doctor-specific prescription drug data that is widely used in pharmaceutical marketing.

A Chicago jury has ruled that subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson must pay $16.6 million to the family of a woman who died of a drug overdose after using a defective Duragesic patch as a pain killer.

Apple’s new executive may have violated an agreement with his former employer, I.B.M., a New York judge ruled.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office upheld Procter & Gamble’s patent used for a Folgers-brand plastic coffee container.

A 1999 state law allowing so-called payday lenders to charge high fees for short-term loans violates the State Constitution, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled.