Editor’s Note: The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food
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Disney, AIG head into arbitration on ABC’s settlement with BPI
A federal judge has ordered AIG Specialty Insurance Co. into arbitration with The Walt Disney Co. in a dispute about a $25 million liability policy held by the ABC television network, which Disney owns.
Disney
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AIG says ABC should have asked permission before reporting
AIG, the multinational insurance company, says its Chartis Specialty Insurance Co. sold the Disney Co. a policy for journalists at ABC Television that would only pay out if they were sued for malice and had
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Letter from the Editor: The mouse is making me feel queasy
Between the time I first began working for a daily newspaper and today, we’ve seen media ownership become much more concentrated.
Back then when 50 or 60 mostly family corporations owned most of the media
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Looks like BPI got ABC’s insurance money plus $177 million
The confidential settlement reached on June 28 between Beef Products Inc., and Disney-owned ABC News is not entirely a secret anymore.
The Walt Disney Company’s quarterly financial filing with the Securities and Executive Commission (SEC)
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BPI settles with ABC over $1.9 billion defamation claim
“The case is settled,” Judge Cheryle Gering told the jury Wednesday morning, thereby making the first public announcement that BPI and ABC Television had settled the $1.9 billion defamation lawsuit in a confidential agreement.
“As
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Disparagement trial begins week 4; ABC News stands ground
The jury trial involving the South Dakota Agricultural Food Products Disparagement Act continues today, beginning its fourth week of courtroom action in Elk Point, SD.
Dakota Dunes, SD-based Beef Products Inc. (BPI) is suing Disney-owned
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Week 3: BPI continues case against ABC in defamation trial
The $1.9 billion state civil defamation trial pitting Beef Products Inc. against Disney-owned ABC Television and reporter Jim Avila enters its third week today in Elk Point, SD. The 12-member jury and four alternates—11 women
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Beef expert says Avila called, but wouldn’t listen to BPI details
Video depositions are being heard during this second week of the
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ABC strikes back by churning up BPI’s earlier history
ELK POINT, SD — It would probably not be accurate to
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Beef safety expert says ABC got it wrong, wrong and wrong
ELK POINT, SD – Mindy Brashears from Texas Tech University took the witness stand in the BPI v. ABC jury trial Wednesday. Under direct testimony, she was giving BPI a lot of traction, but that
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