http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com Business ethics, litigation risk management, apologies Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:23:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en thebusinessethicsblog/XhDXhttp://feedburner.google.com Continuing my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let's look at a story reported by The Wall Street Journal yesterday. According to the Journal, disclosure has become an issue in the civil fraud suit that the SEC is pursuing against three former top officials of Countrywide ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/dont-play-games-with-disclosure Just a couple of hours ago, the Coast Guard received word that a second oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April. According to The Wall Street Journal, the explosion injured one of thirteen workers on the ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/what-will-the-mariner-energy-platform-explosion-mean-for-the-gulf MSNBC reports today that CEOs who laid off more workers than average raked in more money than their peers. According to a new report issued by the Institute on Policy Studies, the fifty CEOs who led the charge on laying off rank-and-file employees during the recent economic turndown received ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/should-ceos-be-rewarded-for-laying-off-their-workers The New York Times reports today that, despite the mess caused by the Deepwater Horizon leak, oil companies are taking increasing and largely unscrutinzed risks as they drill deeper for offshore petroleum. According to the Times, rigs are becoming larger and more complicated, are farther than ever from the ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/shouldnt-the-deepwater-horizon-spill-serve-as-a-wakeup-call Continuing my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let's focus on a recent experience I had with my own family. To celebrate my oldest daughter's 10th birthday, we went to Disney World ... in August. It was a great trip overall but the heat was ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/empower-your-people Well, this is depressing ... The Wall Street Journal reported today that mortgage fraud is once again on the rise, less than two years after the international financial meltdown. As you'll recall, recession set in, world financial markets tumbled, home values plummeted, and unemployment skyrocketed when it was discovered ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/mortgage-fraud-is-on-the-rise-again When former CEO Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard Co. last week, he joined a lengthy list of top business executives who have stepped down after being accused of personal ethical lapses. Of course, this isn't HP's only recent scandal. HP suffered considerable public embarrassment just a few years ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/why-did-hp-give-mark-hurd-a-37-million-severance-package Continuing my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let's look at a high-profile story that's back in the news. Four months ago, an explosion at the Big Branch mine killed over two dozen workers. According to news reports, the mine had been repeatedly cited by ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/observe-health-and-safety-rules For the past several days, the Internet has been ablaze with stories about how big insurance companies have allegedly mistreated military families. These companies are among many that participate in the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program, or "SGLI," which provides low-cost life insurance to active duty military service ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/is-it-ethical-for-insurers-to-put-a-beneficiarys-money-in-a-retained-asset-account Continuing my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let's look at a potentially disastrous mistake made recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. One of its employees, Shirley Sherrod, recently got caught in the cross-fire of accusations of racism between the NAACP and the Tea Party. ... http://www.thebusinessethicsblog.com/get-the-whole-story