The jury deliberating the trial of Bernard Madoff's five former employees handed a guilty verdict to conspiracy charges regarding the investment banker's $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme, the Los Angeles Times said.
London coroner Mary Haskell, referring to the death of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern, said that the corporate practice of working long hours is a major reason on the untimely deaths of financial workers in the industry.
Bloomberg said that based on the Montreal Convention of 1999, families of the 227 passengers of Malaysian Air Flight 370 could seek over $40 million in damages regardless of the fact that the cause of the incident is unknown.
Former Clyde & Co. LLP partner Krista Bates van Winkelhof is currently seeking protection under the current UK whistleblowing law, which only protects salaried employees, Bloomberg said.
