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They claim this allowed the highly contagious virus to spread unimpeded across the globe while China took measures to protect its own citizens A law firm in the US is suing the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The Berman Law Group wants more than $6 trillion…

Matthew Moore is a lead attorney and class action litigator and has been at the forefront of some of the country’s largest class actions.

Australian families and businesses will lose $60 billion by the end of the coronavirus crisis, economists believe, as it’s claimed up to 95 per cent of the infected global population would have been spared if China acted faster to contain the outbreak. The new economic modelling is based on a…

The White House is vehemently denying a Thursday report from The Washington Post claiming that President Donald Trump is considering canceling part of the United States’ debt obligations to China as a retaliatory measure for allowing the international spread of coronavirus. Multiple senior White House officials told the Daily Caller…

WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials are beginning to explore proposals for punishing or demanding financial compensation from China for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to four senior administration officials with knowledge of internal planning. The move could splinter already-strained relations between the two superpowers at a perilous moment…

中央社記者徐薇婷華盛頓29日專電）武漢肺炎在全球造成巨大經濟、人命損失，逾萬名美國民眾集體向北京提告求償6兆美元（約新台幣181兆）。律師團接受中央社記者專訪指出，許多人對中國隱匿疫情感到憤慨，要向北京討回每一分錢損失。 美國柏曼法律事務所（Berman Law Group）3月12日向佛羅里達州南區地方法院提出集體訴訟，指控中國政府明知2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，武漢肺炎）具危險性，且可能演變為大流行疾病，卻因為自身經濟利益選擇隱匿疫情。 律師團提出訴訟當時，原告只有4位美國民眾加上1間棒球訓練中心。但隨疫情衝擊加劇，訴訟案僅在數週時間就吸引約8000位民眾、2000間公司企業加入，讓這起向中國追討「疫情損失」的集體訴訟備受矚目。