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Ford Motor Following a $1.7 billion verdict against the automaker in a truck rollover accident last month, Ford Motor Co. has asked a Georgia court for a new trial. Source Ford said in fresh court documents filed on Monday that the company was unfairly prevented from presenting data that would have shown the truck involved in the deadly incident was safe and the roof structure was stronger than many of its contemporaries. Two family members of the plaintiffs were murdered in an accident in 2014. The family filed a lawsuit against Ford claiming that the truck's roof was defectively designed and might easily give way in a rollover accident. Play YouTube videos as you charge in your new Ford Mustang Mach-E. Earlier this week, Ford contended that a state judge had effectively banned the firm from defending itself against charges that the truck's roof design was defective. Ford also claimed in court documents that it failed to provide sufficient evidence that the occupants were not ...

The decline in the value of the pound will have the unintended consequence of encouraging even more aggressive raids on British businesses. Foreign investors are scouring the London Stock Exchange for deals like they're shopping at TK Maxx, with sharp elbows. Source Several prominent tech companies, such as cybersecurity provider Darktrace and IT giant Micro Focus, have been targets this summer. They are certainly not the last. Jacob Rees-Mogg is in charge of preventing the corporate crown jewels from leaving Britain. This year's passage of the National Security and Investment Act gives the new Business Secretary the authority to halt harmful takeovers. Will he actually put them to use is the question. Prior to him, Kwasi Kwarteng had taken a more moderate approach. Rees-Mogg, who has only just gotten his well-shod feet under the desk, is far too new to make any definitive judgments about him at this point. However, one of his first moves was to approve the £5.6 billion buyout ...