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A hospital has won court permission to subpoena Verizon for the identity of website hackers who emailed hospital employees links to a YouTube video comparing their CEO to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein.

Delta Air Lines is signaling an increased focus on government regulation and compliance by bringing aboard a senior vice president and deputy general counsel, international and regulatory affairs.

Class actions asserting accounting irregularities fell sharply last year following a one-time increase in 2011 attributed to a surge of Chinese reverse mergers, according to a Cornerstone Research report.

In a decision that could help wipe out as much as $2 billion in potential liabilities, OppenheimerFunds has beaten back a $767 million fraud and breach of contract case over an arbitrage system it oversaw for big banks. A New York judge on Wednesday dismissed claims by a trio of banks, concluding that the banks could not point to any actual monetary injury.

Erleigh Norville Wiley, who has been named the new district attorney of Kaufman County, Texas, says she recognizes the potential hazards of her new job. She replaces Mike McLelland, who was slain on March 30 along with his wife, two months after Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was fatally shot. “We’re all still in danger,” Wiley says. “I don’t know how to speak to that, except that we need to step up.”

A former senior KPMG partner has been charged with passing confidential information about clients to a friend in exchange for bribes. In a criminal complaint filed Thursday, Scott London, former chief of KPMG’s audit practice for the Southwestern United States, was accused of helping the owner of a jewelry business obtain more than $1 million in illegal profits from the insider information. The charges come after KPMG abruptly resigned as auditor to Skechers and Herbalife, citing concerns that “the firm’s independence has been impacted as a result of” London’s actions, KPMG announced this week. The firm fired London.

Hourly rates are alive and well. In fact, they are skyrocketing. But despite rising hourly rates, clients are aggressively bargaining for price cuts—and firms are caving.

Businesses should make project managers responsible for ensuring that new technology they wish to use is secure, the president and chief technology officer at an online security company has said.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A federal judge says he will render a verdict as soon as possible in the $14 million wrongful death suit filed by the family of a samurai sword-wielding man shot and killed by a Las Cruces Police officer.