A day after New York’s attorney general took aim at UnitedHealth Group’s health-care reimbursement procedures, the ultimate financial implications for the nation’s largest insurer were yet to come into focus.
But there is little doubt that Andrew Cuomo’s probe has handed company executives a significant distraction and a bit of a black eye.
Although some analysts believe […]
California, Florida schools and the
owner of John F. Kennedy International Airport joined a growing
list of municipal borrowers exiting the U.S. auction-rate bond
market as record failures push taxpayer costs higher.
Thousands of auctions run by banks to set rates on the debt
failed this month […]
The conference started with a
cookout at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Elbow Beach in Bermuda
and ended with a talk by 23-year-old Lauren Bush, an anti-hunger
activist, former model and niece to President George W. Bush. In
between, executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. taught scions of
wealthy families how to invest in hedge funds. […]
Jefferson County, Alabamas $3.2
billion of sewer bonds were cut to junk status after the county
said it may be unable to pay banks holding its floating-rate
debt or make collateral payments on its interest-rate swaps.
The downgrade by Standard Poors may force the county,
which […]
When Ralph Nader clambered into the
U.S. presidential race this week, he did more than rattle
Democrats. He supplied an extra reason to read William
Poundstones Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Arent Fair (and
What We Can Do About It).
In at least five presidential elections, the […]
ZURICH, Switzerland
- A frantic search for four stolen Impressionist paintings led to a most unlikely place: the parking lot of a mental hospital just a few hundred yards from the scene of the crime.There, in the back seat of an unlocked car, a painting by Claude Monet […]
A day after New York’s attorney general took aim at UnitedHealth Group’s health-care reimbursement procedures, the ultimate financial implications for the nation’s largest insurer were yet to come into focus.
But there is little doubt that Andrew Cuomo’s probe has handed company executives a significant distraction and a bit of a black eye.
Although some analysts believe […]
A bill to compensate victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse took its first legislative step Thursday morning by winning approval from a state House committee.
A proposal by Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, to set up a Sept. 11-style fund passed the Government Operations Committee on a voice vote without dissent but not without debate.
Some […]
WASHINGTON - The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package.
GOP senators banded together Wednesday to thwart the $205 billion […]
ZURICH, Switzerland
- A frantic search for four stolen Impressionist paintings led to a most unlikely place: the parking lot of a mental hospital just a few hundred yards from the scene of the crime.There, in the back seat of an unlocked car, a painting by Claude Monet […]