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NEW YORK - (AP) Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York City to force federal officials to conduct an environmental review before issuing final regulations on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin because of concerns over...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A New York federal judge on Sept. 20 granted final approval to a $350 million class action settlement with United HealthCare Corp., ending claims that United companies allegedly underpaid professional providers for out-of-network...

The SEC settled two insider trading cases this week while bringing three investment fund fraud suits, two of which involved recidivists who are alleged to have diverted investor funds from their current scheme to make payments in their prior criminal...

Lehman Brothers' auditor Ernst & Young was named as a defendant in a Martin Act securities fraud suit by the New York Attorney General. The complaint claims that for years the giant accounting firm issued clean audit opinions on Lehman's financial...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's December 21, 2010 filing of a civil fraud lawsuit against Ernst & Young in connection with the audit firm's services to Lehman Brothers has captured headlines in business pages around the world. The...

NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) The European Community (EC) is an agency or instrumentality of its member states for the purpose of diversity jurisdiction in U.S. federal courts, and allegations of cigarette smuggling, racketeering and money laundering...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - (AP) Six website operators are violating a state law that bans the online sale of tobacco to customers in New York, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Thursday. Schneiderman said lawsuits were filed a day earlier in state Supreme...

NEW YORK - (AP) Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York City to force federal officials to conduct an environmental review before issuing final regulations on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin because of concerns over...

NEW YORK – (AP) New York's attorney general has sued a hedge fund management firm and two of its former executives for failing to alert clients about Bernard Madoff's investment practices. Andrew Cuomo's office claims the firm Ivy Asset...

DOVER, Del. - (AP) A federal judge in Delaware is rejecting a bid by New York's attorney general to amend an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. New York officials alleged in a 2009 lawsuit that Intel had paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer...

NEW YORK - (AP) New York's attorney general is accusing a real estate developer of stealing from and underfunding a $7.4 million reserve fund for his Manhattan condominium. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo claims Yair Levy put up only $1.6 million into...

WILMINGTON, Del. - (AP) A Delaware judge on Monday shot down an attempt by New York authorities to obtain confidential information from a lawsuit between Nvidia Corp. and rival chipmaker Intel Corp. as they investigate alleged anticompetitive behavior...

(AP) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Federal Express' ground package delivery unit, alleging its classification of drivers as independent contractors illegally deprives them of legal protections workers enjoy. The lawsuit accuses FedEx...

ALBANY, N.Y. – (AP) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is accusing state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. of siphoning $14 million from the senator's government-funded Bronx clinic. Cuomo announced a lawsuit Tuesday against nearly...

NEW YORK - (AP) An Internet marketing company has agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle complaints that it duped consumers into signing up for discount clubs with tough-to-notice monthly fees. Webloyalty.com, based in Norwalk, Conn., also has agreed to...