Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.

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

With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.

Thousands of problems identified by state inspectors were never publicly disclosed because of a secretive appeals process, a New York Times investigation found.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nursing homes across the country are kicking out old and disabled residents and sending them to homeless shelters and rundown motels.

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

Twenty large chains received more than $5 billion in federal grants even while sitting on more than $100 billion in cash.

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

Employees who were in unions or pushing to join them have been laid off and replaced by nonunionized labor. It’s part of a pattern stretching back decades, experts say.

A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier’s sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?