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Balsams’ developer Les Otten needs “critically important” federal and state guarantees for bank loans on $40 million of his $143 million project, spokesman Scott Tranchemontagne says.
LANCASTER – The Coos Planning Board has the authority to limit how close skiers can get to wind turbines atop the peaks that are key to developer Les Otten’s plan to greatly expand the ski area at the Balsams, board lawyer Bernard Waugh said earlier this week.
Johnson & Johnson suffered a second straight legal defeat in defense of its signature talc products on when it was ordered to pay $55 million in damages to a woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the use of Johnson’s Baby Powder for feminine hygiene.
Are drug companies treating fines as a cost of doing business?
John Gantert, the Rochester police officer who fought for five years to have his name removed from a “Laurie” list of potentially dishonest officers, has lost his last appeal – this one to the state Supreme Court.
Companies are increasingly using pay-for-performance to get around a $1 million federal limit on tax deductions for executive compensation. This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Update, Mar. 4, 2016:The story has been revised to remove phrasing suggesting that restricted stock grants are not tax deductible unless they have a “no-upside” feature. That is not always the case.
Internet entrepreneur and branding consultant Amy Ziff says she had to become a “weekend toxicologist” five years ago when she discovered her twins were allergic to diapers, baby wipes, creams and lotions.
As FairWarning has reported, many safety experts say that for a modest cost — often $10,000 or less — bollards or other barriers can be installed that give customers, employees and pedestrians substantial protection from vehicles that otherwise might jump a curb and careen into a store.
Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Anis Uzzaman literally wrote the book on success in Silicon Valley. The CEO and co-founder of Fenox Venture Capital is the author of “Startup Bible: The Silicon Valley Way of Developing Success.”
But now the U.S. Department of Labor has thrown the book at his company.