Purchases of new homes in the United States fell in May to a record low as a federal tax credit expired, showing the market
remains
dependent on government support.
Television station owners affiliated with NBC agreed to support Comcast Corp.’s purchase of NBC Universal after the
company pledged it won’t shift events such as the Olympics and U.S. football to cable, an executive said.
U.S. regulators may phase in requirements on how much health insurers spend on medical care to avoid pushing plans out of
the market for people who buy their own coverage, WellPoint Inc.’s chief financial officer said Wednesday.
The Obama administration proposed banning for-profit colleges, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc., from
tying recruiters’ pay to the number of people they enroll, saying high-pressure sales tactics induced students to take
out government loans they can’t afford.
Hillenbrand Inc.’s Batesville unit, the largest U.S. maker of coffins,wants the trade commission to prevent Ataudes Aguilares
from selling its products in the United States and Puerto Rico.
ITT Educational Services Inc., Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp. and other for-profit educators
are under increasing federal scrutiny over their recruitment practices and the level of student loan defaults.
Lugar’s bill may be able to muster the 60 votes needed for Senate passage because it wouldn’t cap emissions or expand offshore
drilling, two controversial issues in the Senate.
The suit, filed in federal court in Indianapolis, accuses Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs Inc. of Madison Heights, Mich.,
of infringing the copyright to a Saturday Evening Post cover first published in 1943.
Eli Lilly and Co. and Merck KGaA drug failed to slow tumors in a study designed to expand the medicine’s use to patients whose
disease is in an earlier stage.
The drugmakers are counting on screening for the so-called K-ras gene to spur use of Erbitux in metastatic colorectal cancer.
The U.S. Justice Department said AMC Entertainment Group Inc., the second-largest U.S. movie theater owner, must sell some
cinemas to proceed with plans to buy most of those operated by Kerasotes Showplace Theatres.
The price increase was fueled by the debate over the health-care overhaul in Washington, D.C., Medco Health Solutions Inc. CEO David Snow said.
U.S. companies, including Eli Lilly, amassed at least $1 trillion in foreign profits not taxed in the U.S. as of the end of
last year. That cumulative total increased 70 percent over three years.
The U.S. health overhaul’s mandate that insurers spend 80 percent of premiums on medical care may
need to be loosened
to keep companies from quitting the market for people who buy coverage on their own, state regulators said.
The health law passed by Congress in March will force insurers like WellPoint to give rebates to customers next year if the
companies don’t meet the medical-spending minimums.
General Growth Properties Inc. rejected Simon Property Group Inc.’s “best and final” offer.
Simon Property says its latest offer is worth $6.5 billion, or $20 a share, for General Growth. It had last offered $18.25
a share.
Watson Pharmaceuticals filed for FDA approval to sell a low-cost version of Eli Lilly and Co.’s osteoporosis medicine. Indianapolis-based
Lilly is seeking a court order that would block approval until three of its patents expire in 2017.
General Growth said the hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper has been moved from Wednesday to Friday.
The administration is gearing up to produce tougher regulations that may reduce the amount of federal financial aid flowing
to for-profit colleges such as locally-based ITT Educational.
