Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Uber has spent millions trying to get a proposal on the Nevada ballot that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits against companies.

The move by the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was the second time this month that a hospital has taken this rare step.

The move may affect giant social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as smaller ones like Mastodon and Truth Social.

Ignition interlock devices are becoming ubiquitous. They can distract drivers and cause crashes.

Dozens of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of tens of thousands of employees.

Nursing homes have manipulated the influential star system in ways that have masked deep problems — and left them unprepared for Covid-19.

The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general and other prosecutors, accuses Brookdale Senior Living of gaming Medicare’s ubiquitous star-rating system.

In U.S. nursing homes, where Covid-19 killed scores, even reports of maggots and rape don’t dock five-star ratings.

Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system.

Kimberly Jackson, a discharge planner at NeuroBehavioral Hospital in Indiana, spoke publicly about nursing homes’ practice of dumping patients in hospitals.

They are finding what families say are pretexts to send patients to hospitals for psychiatric care — and then refusing to let them return.

Nursing homes, the center of the pandemic, are seeking tax breaks, federal cash infusions and protection against lawsuits.

Some with private equity owners, focused on making money, were particularly ill equipped and understaffed to handle Covid-19.

Every year, Mike Bloomberg’s company pays hundreds of fired employees to not say anything bad.

Mr. Wexner, who created the retail empire L Brands, has come under scrutiny for employing the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as a personal adviser.

Technology at the heart of drunken-driving cases across the country has been successfully challenged, with tens of thousands of tests thrown out.

Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

Employers that champion women face accusations of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.

Women in strenuous jobs lost their pregnancies after employers denied their requests for light duty, even ignoring doctors’ notes, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

Many pregnant women have been systematically sidelined in the workplace. They’re passed over for promotions and raises. They’re fired when they complain.