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The economic stimulus plan’s $20 billion for health-care information has unleashed a fight between business advocates who want to sell patient data and consumers who want to keep medical information private. The U.S. Senate bill approved this week favors industry-backed ...

Medicare reimbursement; settlement

First Amendment; School Closing Policy

Inconsistent theories; double recovery

CGL policy; new definition

Failure to settle; bad faith

Stop fretting about the deficit. All the added federal government borrowing that will be needed to finance the $900 billion stimulus package isn’t going to send Treasury yields through the roof, and right now, that’s the most tangible and immediate ...

I’m in a time warp. I keep hearing Howard Beale from the movie “Network” screaming, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more.” Yet when I open my eyes, I find myself looking not at ...

It was the height of irony. Before the dust had even settled on the grave of Tom Daschle’s nomination, President Barack Obama imposed a $500,000 cap on the salaries of executives who work for firms receiving “extraordinary assistance” from the ...

The biggest bears in U.S. stocks are losing their conviction after the steepest decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since the Great Depression. The number of shares borrowed and sold short on the New York Stock Exchange fell ...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner laid out what he described as a “comprehensive” attack on the financial crisis, warning that administration’s strategy will “cost money, involve risk and take time.” “The financial system is working against recovery, and that’s the dangerous ...