Kroger said Friday that it will pay up to $1.4 billion over 11 years to settle most of the litigation against the grocery giant stemming from the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the U.S. for more than a decade.
Terrence Williams, a former member of the Sacramento Kings, has been handed a 10-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Manhattan for orchestrating an elaborate plot to embezzle over $5 million from the NBA’s health care program.
More than 120 million Americans -- one-third of the U.S. population -- have been living under air quality alerts this summer, with citizens in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit at times experiencing some of the unhealthiest air in the world.
The economic toll of fires is growing as climate change fuels larger and more intense wildfires in the Western U.S. and Canada. Eight of the top ten most destructive wildfires in U.S. history, in terms of insured property losses, have occurred since 2017.
Cigna is facing a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of employing an algorithm to review and reject hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, with minimal individual doctor oversight.
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied
By now, most of us have heard the term quiet quitting. Is it a negative or positive thing?<br />There’s confusion over what it is or what it means. Some think it means the period of disengagement an employee may experience leading up to actually quitting. Is it really though?
Are you tired of the same ol’ mundane wellness programs? Weight loss, stress reduction, vaccine clinics, and corporate step challenges, all sounding familiar to you?
Property and casualty insurance providers across the country wrote more than $797 billion in premiums in 2021, generating about $767 billion in earned premiums, the latest industry report from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) has revealed.
Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes. She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Ga. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow down but lost control of her car on a big curve.
Star Trek was ahead of its time in many ways, and not just because the sci-fi franchise portrayed a future several centuries after the series first aired in the 1960s. The cult classic TV show/films imagined what life might be like in the 23rd century, when humankind could be hurtling on spaceships through unknown universes. Much of the show was fantasy, of course, but the series has been heralded for foreshadowing the future.
Mental health in children and teenagers has suffered during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory at the end of 2021 warning about a mental health crisis in youth, and a 2020 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that mental health related emergency department visits in children started increasing in April of that year and stayed high through October.
While we all know that insurance fraud is a massive problem, we now know just how massive: more than $300 billion-a-year massive, just in the U.S. That figure comes from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, whose estimate would mean that fraud costs each person in the U.S. some $930 a year and the average family some $3,750.
