Fred Business News-  DaimlerChrysler will appeal the ruling of a U.S. court ordering it and its heavy truck-making unit Freightliner to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a tangled multinational fraud case, a DaimlerChrysler spokeswoman said.

The Oregonian newspaper reported Saturday that a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury had found Freightliner liable for shifting assets among several of its divisions in a bid to avoid a legal judgment.

Freightliner and its parent company, DaimlerChrysler North American Holding Corp., were ordered to pay $350 million in punitive ...   more »