Massachusetts News

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced on Wednesday that more than $40 million was recovered by Coakley's office using the False Claims Act in Fiscal Year 2011.

House Majority Leader Ronald Mariano, a key figure on past health care policy deliberations, said today he anticipates elements of medical malpractice reform to be included in a broader remaking of the state’s health care payment system tabbed for this year.

The lawsuit recently filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley against five national banks and a national mortgage registration system for allegedly illegal foreclosure practices in Massachusetts is one of a handful of public law enforcement cases challenging banks' mortgage practices. Similar cases have been brought by the attorneys general of Delaware, Nevada and Arizona.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley sued the five biggest mortgage servicers Thursday, in the first government lawsuit targeting all five for alleged improper foreclosure practices including so-called robo-signing.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.'s currency-trading practices are under renewed legal fire, as a lawsuit alleges the bank made "bundles of cash" by overcharging customers.

A Massachusetts jury has ordered Toys ‘R Us to pay more than $20 million to the family of a woman who was killed when an inflatable pool slide partially collapsed at a 2006 party.

A seemingly innocuous merger between two bottle cap manufacturers in 1963 cost thousands of jobs around the country over the years and now, without a change in state law, could threaten 125 jobs in Lawrence, company officials told lawmakers yesterday.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says she has lost confidence that a fair settlement over foreclosure abuses can be reached where banks are held accountable for wrongful foreclosures.