Chad Terune, Kaiser Health News Sutter Health, long accused of abusing its market power in California, is squaring off against major U.S. employers in a closely watched legal fight over health care competition and high prices. The latest fight has erupted over Sutter’s demand that employers sign an arbitration agreement to resolve disputes. Without it, Sutter says employers must pay sharply …
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will propose $30 million in state funding to help pay the water bills of Flint residents facing an emergency over the city’s lead-contaminated water supply. Snyder will brief Flint officials and pastors about the plan Wednesday and outline it to lawmakers next week as part of his 2016-2017 budget proposal, according to a statement the governor’s office …
And now, for its most expensive act: Volkswagen might buy back some of the 575,000 cars affected by Dieselgate in the United States. Robert Giuffra, a lawyer defending Volkswagen against class-action suits, indicated during a court hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco last week that if the German automaker is unable repair some of its diesel models in a timely manner, it might …
(Los Angeles, CA) — California regulators said Tuesday they have rejected Volkswagen’s recall plan for some of its most popular diesel models, including the Passat and the Jetta, that used software to intentionally deceive government emissions tests. The California Air Resources Board said the recall plan was unacceptable for a variety of reasons, including that it did not adequately identify …
It hasn’t been a “New year, new me” kind of 2016 for Volkswagen so far. Following the company’s admission last September that it installed “defeat devices” on 11 million diesel-powered cars across the world to cheat emissions tests, things have gone from bad to worse. The German automaker faces dozens of lawsuits.