Legal

The U.S. Supreme Court will be open for business today, adhering to its tradition of ignoring the vicissitudes of the other branches of government.

Take a page from Shakespeare and Stein: We can call brokers 'advisors,' but they still have a duty to firm, not client.

Nine former employees of Aflac Inc. are claiming pervasive fraud and other misconduct, including pushing them to use sales tactics akin to those of the Wells Fargo scandal, as well as ruthlessly retaliating against whistleblowers.

In what has become an increasingly common business arrangement, owners of nursing homes outsource a wide variety of goods and services to companies in which they have a financial interest or that they control.

According to the Justice Department, Kmart offered discounted generic drug prices to cash-paying customers, but didnt disclose those cheaper prices when reporting the drugs usual and customary prices to Medicare.

Workers suing over Kentucky's public pension shortfall allege firms and officials breached fiduciary duties by using high-risk, high-fee investments that yielded lackluster returns.

MetLife has hired a law firm to help it track down pension beneficiaries after the company came under investigation for failing to locate possibly thousands of them owed payments.

For the past two years federal regulators have issued subpoenas and scrutinized relationships between drug companies and the charities, which are supposed to operate independently from industry donors.