The San Francisco Superior Court, on March 10, 2009, dismissed the California Attorney General’s lawsuit against PG&E Corporation and several of its present and former directors over alleged unfair or fraudulent business acts.
In the suit filed on Jan. 10, 2002,…
Halliburton Company says that, in February 2009, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission were resolved.
The DOJ and SEC investigations resulted from allegations of improper payments to government…
Halliburton Company says a bidding practices investigation into payments relating to the Bonny Island project in Nigeria is ongoing.
Information was uncovered suggesting that, possibly beginning as early as the mid-1980s, former Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. employees may have engaged…
Halliburton Company’s KBR, Inc. subsidiary is still facing Petrobras’ arbitration, which was commenced in March 2006, related to the Barracuda-Caratinga project.
The Company provided indemnification in favor of KBR under the master separation agreement for all out-of-pocket cash costs and expenses…
CH Energy Group Inc. disclosed in its latest annual report on Form
10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that
on Dec. 10, 2008, its subsidiary, Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Corp., entered into a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs and
one…
Exelon Corporation’s subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison Company, is subject to potential fines for breaching North American Electrical Reliability Corporation (NERC) reliability standards.
On July 18, 2008, ComEd self-reported to ReliabilityFirst Corporation, the entity responsible for monitoring reliability in ComEd’s region, that it…
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, in December 2008, awarded US$14 million to Exelon Corporation for its share of losses and damages over an oil spill near its two Salem Generating Station nuclear generation units in Hancock’s Bridge, N.J.
In December…
Exelon Corporation is still in dispute with Local 15 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 15) over a healthcare benefits grievance.
In 2006, IBEW Local 15 filed a demand for arbitration of a grievance challenging certain changes implemented…
Exelon Corporation says that there were no other unresolved uranium supply matters as of Dec. 31, 2008, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 6, 2009.
The Company’s subsidiary, Exelon Generation Company LLC…
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, on Jan. 21, 2009, approved Goldman Sachs & Co.’s US$6.95 million settlement with Enron Corp.’s bankruptcy trustee.
GS&Co. is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
GS&Co. is among numerous…