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Attorney Stuart D. Zimring recently suggested that a family arranging long-term care for an elderly, incapacitated father consider selling an old life insurance policy they no longer needed. By selling the policy, they could generate cash for in-home caregivers and ...

BOSTON — A Texas woman who was fired after her company refused to accommodate her violent asthma attacks by removing office air fresheners can breathe a little easier — she was recently awarded $1.5 million in a disability discrimination suit ...

The U.S. won’t be able to protect against tainted imports of food, toys and other products unless the government adopts new approaches, according to a Bush administration report. The government needs to better identify the riskiest imports for the most ...

Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic Inc. are poised to seize a third of the $5 billion in annual heart-stent sales with new versions of the drug-coated devices. Studies suggest the Abbott and Medtronic stents are more effective than artery-opening products sold ...

Bayer AG’s Trasylol, a drug to control bleeding during heart bypass surgery, raised the risk of kidney damage in clinical studies and may increase the chance of death, according to U.S. regulators. The findings may justify restrictions on use of ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, chastened by the first drop in employment in four years, will be forced to cut interest rates at least twice this year, according to a Bloomberg News survey. The unexpected weakness in the labor ...

Tina Porter, left, thanks the public for supporting her at a press conference Thursday outside the Jackson County Courthouse. Her sister, Tami Gochenour, right, comforts her.

Important casework at a Kansas City law firm is regularly given to male lawyers, a former associate charged in a lawsuit this week. Rachael Taggart claimed ongoing sex discrimination forced her to leave Harris McCausland in late 2006, and said ...

A new prosecuting unit in the city of St. Louis has come out the gate strong, going eight-for-eight last month in the successful prosecution of a particularly persistent strain of lawbreakers — career criminals. In just the month of August, ...

The Grateful Dead, the Doors, Led Zeppelin and Carlos Santana asked a judge to force a music archive to turn over thousands of documents and recordings they say are key to protecting their rights to memorabilia and music. The archive, ...

Nowadays, juries are more sophisticated, thus they expect more scientific evidence during trials, officials agree. But the demands aren’t entirely a result of being bombarded by a plethora of seductive forensic and courtroom dramas, according to a recent study published ...