Last month, the First Alliance Corporation, a prominent subprime lender that is facing lawsuits by several homeowners and the AARP for deceptive practices, filed for bankruptcy protection.
PhyCor Inc., once one of the biggest managers of doctors' practices, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday after nine straight money-losing quarters.
Last month the family of a Frostburg, Maryland, State University football player who died two years ago from head injuries during practice filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County, Md., against the school football coaches, trainer and the NCAA, charging that "reckless disregard for player health and safety led to (Derek Sheely's) tragic death".
Edwards' law practice filed its taxes as an S corporation, which allowed him to avoid payroll taxes by paying himself huge sums as business profits rather than salary.
In practice, file messages from multiple laboratories are mapped into a standardized database with desired variables including patient, physician contact information, specimen identifiers, test name, and results.
The American Dental Association sued Aetna two years ago over billing practices, then filed a similar suit against WellPoint a year later.
Lawsuits alleging deceptive practices were filed by the Illinois attorney general last November and by the West Virginia attorney general in March; the cases are pending.
Steven Wharton, a financial services analyst with Loomis, Sayles & Company, said the decline in bank shares reflected investor fatigue because of the long list of corporations with large loans outstanding that have disclosed questionable accounting practices or filed for bankruptcy.
In response, Netscape accused Microsoft of unfair business practices and filed a series of complaints with regulatory bodies; these efforts helped to persuade the U.S. Department of Justice to undertake a broad investigation of Microsoft under antitrust statutes.
Last week, American Tradition Partnership (formerly known as Western Tradition Partnership) and the two other corporations that originally brought suit in Montana courts against the Corrupt Practices Act filed a stay application with Justice Anthony Kennedy to suspend the state supreme court's judgment and refer the case to his colleagues for reversal.
Overall, Attorney General Spitzer charged that more than 1,000 clients of the Capoccia practice had filed for bankruptcy because the practice had worsened their situations.
