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A factory worker in Xi'an worked the same packing job for 24 years, then died by suicide in the workshop after bladder cancer treatment became unaffordable because no one paid his social insurance. A court ruled the suicide wasn't legally caused by the unpaid premiums — and ordered the company to pay only 20%.

Abbott will pay $670 million to settle claims that its preterm formula caused a deadly infant gut disease — while explicitly denying the formula was at fault. The deal is a study in how mass-tort settlements write the check without the apology.

For two decades a Zhejiang man lived so frugally he became his own cautionary tale, piling up 7.89 million yuan in savings. Scammers took it all in six days.