A legal cloud settled over industrial gases group BOC yesterday, after a US jury awarded $1m in damages to a former welder who claimed his exposure to manganese fumes led to him developing Parkinson's ...

BOC, the industrial gases business, disappointed investors yesterday with news that sales in its semiconductor division had dropped in the third quarter and that increasing numbers of welders were ...

BOC's shares could face pressure later this month when a class action litigation case comes to court in Ohio. Former welders claim that they developed Parkinson's disease after exposure to manganese ...