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North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania under a decade-old settlement.
The money that the state of Arizona gets from tribes' gambling operations is down.
House Democrats have reached a deal on Medicare payments that will secure critical support from heartland and Pacific Coast lawmakers for President Barack Obama's goal of revamping health care.
Merck & Co. paid doctors and nurses a total of $3.7 million this summer to give talks to colleagues about the drugmaker's products and other health topics, Merck disclosed Monday.
In the past year, the explosion in the number of jobless people has taxed the nation’s underfunded unemployment insurance system, sometimes resulting in delayed payments.
The University of Minnesota says a surgeon who was paid more than $1 million in consulting fees by medical device maker Medtronic properly disclosed any possible conflicts of interest on his research projects.
A Medtronic consultant failed to disclose that he was working for the medical device manufacturer, even while asking Congress for funding to research the company's treatments for soldiers wounded in combat, according to an influential Republican Senator.
Congressional investigators said Wednesday two-thirds of the U.S. health insurance industry used a faulty database that overcharged patients for seeing doctors outside their insurance network, costing Americans billions of dollars in inflated medical bills.
Medical device maker Medtronic paid about $850,000 over nearly 10 years to a former Army surgeon accused of forging signatures and falsifying data for a study touting the benefits of one of the company's implants.
More than two years year after the housing market tanked and the foreclosure rate began rising, the ongoing wave of distressed home sales is weighing on house prices and crimping a long-awaited economic recovery.
A federal program with a history of making billions of dollars in erroneous payments for wheelchairs, oxygen machines and other medical equipment continues to grossly underestimate its own mistakes, according to federal investigators.
Embattled insurer American International Group Inc. said it has set aside and paid in part nearly $1.5 billion in retention and performance-related bonuses to its employees, a higher amount than previously disclosed.
Opening Day came early for employees Tuesday at Jack Kain's Ford, Lincoln, Mercury dealership, when Ford Motor Co. announced a new program that would help buyers in the event of a job loss.
Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world.
What’s the best way to utilize your financial planner? How should one take advantage of lower interest rates? TODAY financial editor Jean Chatzky and CNBC’s Carmen Wong Ulrich offer advice on these issues, plus wise words about investing and paying down debt.
President Obama’s plan to trim the rising pile of home foreclosures contains a comprehensive list of new ideas and old ones — an acknowledgment that there is no single solution to the housing crisis at the heart of the recession.
Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, said Monday it will begin disclosing all sizable payments it makes to doctors, including those who test experimental drugs in people, a first for the industry.
Medicare is adding to its do-not-pay list for hospitals two new categories of preventable conditions it won't cover, a much smaller number than it had been contemplating.
The Bush administration is threatening to veto any legislation that protects doctors' Medicare payments at the expense of private insurers.
Legislation that would require prescription drug makers to disclose payments to doctors got a boost Tuesday when Eli Lilly and Co. broke ranks with the industry and endorsed the bill.
Federal health officials on Monday proposed adding dangerous blood clots in the leg and eight other conditions to the list of complications that Medicare won't pay to treat if they were acquired at the hospital.
Borrowers fell behind on their car, home equity and home improvement loans in last three months of 2007 at a delinquency rate not hit since the early 1990s.
Late payments on a cluster of consumer loans, including those for autos, home improvement and certain home equity loans, climbed in the summer to their highest point since the country's last recession in 2001.
The hips and knees are synthetic, but it's real money changing hands. Five makers of artificial joints have paid more than $200 million this year to doctors and hospitals, often the same ones who are deciding which company's joints to buy, according to an Associated Press calculation of disclosures required this week by a settlement with federal prosecutors.
Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Over the past 14 months we have bought or financed a car a house couch, new carpet for the living room, a water heater, a stove, and now a furnace. Now I say we have done more to resurrect this economy (or that of China) than a lot of people.
FTC: Bloggers must disclose payments for reviewsThe Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.
Vets may get $3,000 GI Bill check by Oct. 2Faced with growing criticism from delays in paying GI Bill benefits, Veterans' Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki has ordered an unprecedented $3,000 one-time payment in advance benefits that could be available as early as Oct. 2.
GI Bill payment delays are frustrating vetsDelays and complications in getting Post-9/11 GI Bill payments have led some veterans to wonder if they made a mistake in signing up for the new education program.
Retiree Forced To Pay $11,000 In Fraudulent Credit Card Charges Imagine someone racking up $11,000 in charges on your credit card without your knowledge. That's what happened to a retired Loveland man, who is now responsible for paying it all back.
California to Stop Issuing IOUs, Borrow $10.5 Billion Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- California will stop using IOUs to pay its bills in early September, lifting a burden on businesses, taxpayers and municipalities that received $2 billion of the registered warrants instead of cash as the recession pushed the most-populous U.S.
New Federal Program: Help Is on the Way for Student Loans, July 1Relief is just around the corner for the many young Americans who struggle under the weight of student-loan debt.
The folks who invented the iPhone probably never envisioned either the collapse of the economy nor the cottage industry of iPhone apps mushrooming daily into its own corner of the marketplace. Its more popular apps are related to payments and banking applications.
Supreme Court makes it easier to force elected judges off casesWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier to force elected judges off cases if they've accepted big campaign contributions.
Spotted: 'Pay With Facebook' ButtonsRecently spotted: a Pay With Facebook button as an option when paying for an online order. Rumors swirled for quite some time that Facebook was playing with developing a payments platform, so it looks like it is getting rolled out.
AmEx won't reimburse stranded Conquest clientsThe Brand that once was built on trust and the best in the industry for customer service now say, "too bad."
No More Credit Card Fees - NY Parking TicketsA brilliant way to reduce and pass those "savings" on to the offender. Creative, innovative and what more companies should do: Just say no to plastic.
50 Million Americans to Get $250 ChecksMore than 50 million retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus package enacted in February.
Facts speak for themselves. Companies can say and spin it any way that will make a buck. Press releases were issued with staunch statements to the public to gain the trust and attain pristine Brands. The public, at large, has little time to sift through these statements.
S.C. Social Security Recipients Get Extra $250 Check"These are checks that will make a big difference in the lives of older Americans and people with disabilities — many of whom have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis that has swept across the country," Biden said.
Loan Allows Missouri Family to Stay in Cave HomeAn American family expects they'll be able to stay in their home built inside a cave after accepting an offer of a private mortgage contract.
Town of Miami AZ loses fire service - can't pay for itOn Thursday, the Tri-City Fire District canceled its contract with the Town of Miami for not paying its bills. About 2000 people live in Miami, which is in Gila County near Globe
Bank Won't Accept Resident's Mortgage PaymentsA Kansas City woman renting to own is losing her house after the owner died and the bank refused to let her continue to pay the mortgage.
One of the brighter spots in the online economy, as least before the stock market dive last fall, is related to game websites.
Scammer prints fake checks using a Wisconsin's woman bank infoSAUK CITY -- A criminal in Texas went on quite the shropping spree using Lori Warren's money. Warren discovered more than $2,000 in checks had been spent at Wal-Marts in Texas and Louisana.
Restaurant patrons decide own chargesLONDON, Feb. 4 -- A London restaurant said it has begun a monthlong promotion to allow customers to skip the bill and pay only what they feel their meal was worth.
Informant says NYPD owes him money for his workExcerpt: He helped cops get more than 27 illegal guns off the streets as a confidential informant, and got an award and $5,700 for his efforts. But Russell Hicks claimed the NYPD stiffed him of thousands of dollars in gun-buy payments.
RAW VIDEO: Casey Anthony's Attorney Complains About Media CoverageCasey Anthony's attorney called a press conference Wednesday to complain about media coverage. (01/21/09)
Fla. Bar Prepares Case Against BaezORLANDO, Fla. -- The Florida Bar told WESH 2 Tuesday that they have an "active case" working against Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez. Baez said he knows about the investigation and said it's been filed by people with an ax to grind.
Feds: Man Faked Dead Dad's Pension Checks A Boston man has been charged with stealing more than $256,000 from the federal government by continuing to cash his dead father's retirement checks.
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