Led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a phalanx of interests charged Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth and its Ingenix division with denying millions of dollars in claims for millions of Americans when they use doctors outside of their insurer’s network.
Cuomo said Wednesday that he plans to sue UnitedHealth, launch an industrywide investigation into billing procedures and […]
Health care remains a top voter concern. Here’s some help on candidates’ stated positions:
Q Will all Americans be covered by health insurance?
Clinton: Yes. Huckabee, McCain, Obama: No.
Clinton would mandate that all individuals have health insurance. She has not specified how this would be enforced. Obama proposes a stepped approach starting with a mandate to cover […]
ST. CLOUD - Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave Minnesota a sloppy Valentine on Wednesday, telling a hand-picked audience at the St. Cloud Civic Center that we have an unstoppable forward momentum toward greatness.
Greatness was the message of his State of the State Address — delivered to a small audience of invited big shots (and 75 empty […]
For more than 20 years, Richard Espeseth deftly operated huge steelmaking machines. But he never mastered the computer keyboard.
Now the 60-year-old wonders if that gap in his skill set is keeping him from his next manufacturing job. Downsized out of a job at Northstar Steel in 2002 and again at Great Western Recycling in 2007, […]
With one successful start-up under his belt, John Fraser thought it would be easier to raise money for his latest venture, Mednet USA.
He was wrong.
It has been just as difficult, Fraser said. I can’t even imagine the difficulty for someone without experience, but has a great idea.
Fortunately for Fraser, a new venture capital fund […]
LOS ANGELES
- A homeless man testified Friday he was befriended by an elderly woman who is now charged with killing two other homeless men for profit and was pressured to sign documents with his personal information %26mdash; papers he now believes involved insurance policies.Jimmy Covington, 48, took […]
Among the 183 people who were on the Interstate 35W bridge when it collapsed, Linda Paul is a victim with a difference.
At a hearing Wednesday at the State Capitol, Paul described her injuries and her decision just last week to seek counseling to deal with the aftermath — but then said she favored legislation that […]
The following U.S. companies provided their
financial outlooks this week. There were a total of 185 outlooks. The table
is sorted alphabetically by ticker symbol for each day. Estimates are
provided by Bloomberg.
TICKER FISCAL UP/
SYMBOL COMPANY […]
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 following is a list of companies
whose shares may move in Japanese markets on Feb. 25. Stock
symbols are in brackets, and prices are from the last close. The
information stated in each item was released after the last close
of trading, unless stated otherwise.
Aioi […]