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Cigna Corp. agreed to improve its rankings of physicians in response to an investigation of health insurers suspected of directing patients to cheaper doctors, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. Cigna, the Philadelphia-based insurer, will report to the attorney ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When Eran Kahana faces a formidable adversary, he tries not to become anxious. He keeps his breathing steady and attempts to maintain an air of what the Japanese call “kamai,” or a fighting posture that radiates both internal ...

UBS AG, the Zurich-based banking giant that manages the most money for the rich, is getting no respect from its shareholders who are beginning to wonder what happened to their investment. The 145-year-old Swiss icon ranks as Europe’s biggest bank ...

Municipal-bond investors may be owed billions of dollars, and bond funds holding $155 billion rendered obsolete, as the result of a U.S. Supreme Court fight over state tax powers. And that might be just the beginning of upheavals in the ...

CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate broker, fell as much as 13 percent in New York trading after earnings missed analysts’ estimates. Third quarter net income excluding items was 55 cents a share, less than ...

One day in mid-August, my 15-year-old son Chris came home from football practice red-faced, sullen and complaining that his leg was “killing him.” He wasn’t far off. In the days that followed, Chris was diagnosed and treated for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...

Almost two-thirds of Americans say a recession is likely in the next year and a majority believes the economy is already faltering, according to a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey. By 65 percent to 29 percent, Americans say they expect a ...

An unemployed Kansas City man is ready to drag God into court and make him pay. Greg Rollins demanded $1 trillion in a federal lawsuit filed this week against his creator, who allegedly was negligent in designing Rollins and his ...

Sophomore was accused of forcible sodomy of 2 girls The Wentzville School District made its final arguments Wednesday defending in federal court its disciplinary actions against a 10th grade student accused of forcible sodomy. The student, identified in court records ...

Shughart Thomson & Kilroy announced that it has hired two laterals to join its business group, as well as six associates. Andrew J. Ennis and Jack D. McInnes V will practice in business litigation. Ennis, who got his law degree ...

President George W. Bush defended Michael Mukasey’s refusal to declare so-called waterboarding illegal, saying the attorney general nominee has no direct knowledge of interrogation techniques. Bush, prodding the Senate to confirm Mukasey, told reporters at the White House that lawmakers ...