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A U.S. bankruptcy judge in San Francisco on Wednesday tentatively approved PG&E’s $58 billion plan for exiting its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Concerned that as many as 70,000 victims may miss out on payments, attorneys filed court papers Friday to alert the bankruptcy judge that wildfire survivors aren’t aware of their rights to file a claim.

A key state lawmaker is calling on state regulators to more aggressively oversee PG&E’s unprecedented wildfire safety power shutoff that could impact as many as 2.5 million people.

Victims of opioid addiction weren’t in the room when OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma persuaded half the state attorneys general to settle claims over the company’s role in the nationwide overdose epidemic. Now that Purdue is in federal bankruptcy court, four people whose lives were touched by addiction have important seats at the table — and could force fundamental changes to...

Attorneys general representing nearly half the states and lawyers for more than 500 local governments on Friday blasted the terms of Purdue Pharma’s offer to settle thousands of lawsuits over the nation’s opioid crisis in court filings that also said the company had funneled up to $13 billion to its controlling family. Their legal filings said the tentative deal does...

Attorneys for some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation’s opioid crisis.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and lawyers representing local governments both said Sunday that they’re interested in continuing negotiations to settle lawsuits over the toll of the opioid crisis a day after two state attorneys general told colleagues that their talks with the company were at an impasse and that they expected the company to file imminently for bankruptcy. The statements...

The PG&E bankruptcy judge gave Tubbs fire victims relief from legal limbo on Friday, allowing them to go to state court to try to make the case that the company sparked the most destructive of the North Bay wildfires.

The federal judge overseeing PG&E’s bankruptcy grilled the company’s lawyer Friday on the troubled utility’s plan to award as much as $20 million in bonuses to more than a dozen top executives, suggesting that he might order that any bonuses come in the form of stock instead of cash.

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking a judge to approve between $235 million to $350 million in bonuses to some 10,000 employees in the midst of its ongoing bankruptcy proceeding.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is exploring filing for bankruptcy as one of its options to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging the drug maker contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the U.S., NBC News confirmed through a source familiar with the matter. The deliberations show how Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family, are under...

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday dismissed the state attorney general’s move to block Santa Clara County from purchasing two local hospitals after their owner declared bankruptcy.

The Northern California county where a deadly wildfire killed 86 people last year sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Tuesday, a day after the utility announced it will file for bankruptcy.

Thousands of South Bay residents are worried the closest hospital to them is going to close because of bankruptcy.

Former “Dance Moms” reality TV star Abby Lee Miller has been diagnosed with cancer. Doctor Hooman Melamed tells People.com she contracted what they thought was a rare spinal infection and nearly died this week. The doctor says Miller went to a California emergency room, where her condition deteriorated and she became “paralyzed from the neck down.” He says Miller underwent...

The federal bankruptcy fraud sentencing for former “Dance Moms” reality star Abby Lee Miller is set to conclude before a federal judge in Pittsburgh.

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge has ordered rapper 50 Cent to explain Instagram photos showing him surrounded by wads of cash.

A judge on Thursday approved a debt plan by Stockton, California, one of the largest U.S. cities to declare bankruptcy, allowing it to reorganize more than $900 million in long-term debt and put more than two years of financial uncertainty behind it.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the sale of Atlantic City’s former Revel Casino Hotel for 5 cents on the dollar to a Toronto asset management firm. Judge Gloria Burns approved the sale to Brookfield Asset Management for $110 million.