Wednesday’s 5-4 ruling is the latest in a line of Supreme Court decisions that have backed arbitration and helped companies avoid the prospect of costly class actions filed by workers and consumers.
Samsung Electronics Co. will delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone from the planned April 26 debut after reports of screen failures among some review units, a setback for the world’s biggest handset maker.
The Trump administration’s top Medicare official used an annual report on the program’s fiscal outlook to attack proposals by some Democrats to expand government health-care coverage to all Americans.
The retailer said it would close stores where leases were expiring or where it was unable to get reduced rents. Pier 1 has two stores in Indianapolis and three in the suburbs.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. was one of the first drug firms to begin sharing prices. Now, others are following suit.
France’s luxury-goods tycoons are among the country’s wealthiest individuals and companies to pledge at least 600 million euros ($678 million) to help in the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral a day after the Paris landmark was ravaged by fire. Kicking off a wave of donations in response to a call from President Emmanuel Macron for a fund-raising […]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. on Friday won a shareholder vote to approve its takeover of Celgene Corp., paving the way to close the largest pharmaceutical merger in history and create a cancer-drug giant.
Shares in Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. and other health insurance stocks were still falling Friday morning amid political turmoil over health care and drug prices.
Major U.S. airlines experienced some delays Monday following a technical glitch at a third-party vendor. The issue has been resolved, but caused some disruption in travel plans.
The spending figures, which reflected weaker sales of new autos, signal first-quarter growth faces additional headwinds, though surveys show consumers remain generally upbeat.
The parent of Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant is exploring options for its lower-priced women’s clothing chain, Dressbarn, according to people familiar with the matter.
A Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fix is on Washington’s agenda—again. Congress has kicked off its latest attempt to forge a path forward for the mortgage giants, something that’s proved extremely elusive in the 11 years that the companies have been under U.S. control. Starting March 26, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo began holding […]
Health insurer Centene Corp. has agreed to buy managed-care provider WellCare Health Plans Inc., expanding in the market for government insurance plans just as politicians in Washington, D.C., appear to be gearing up for another health-policy clash.
The women sued Salesforce on Tuesday, claiming billionaire Marc Benioff’s company knowingly provided customized database tools to Backpage to market and remarket prostitutes to “pimps, johns and traffickers.”
Nike Inc. may have prevailed over lawyer Michael Avenatti’s alleged attempt to extort the company. But the case has shifted the spotlight back to an uncomfortable place for the sneaker industry and the NCAA.
Six former college coaches, an athletic director, the head of a tennis academy and two test administrators pleaded not guilty Monday in the U.S. college-admissions scandal.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA faces more pressure than ever to reform its model. Legal challenges, scandals and athlete activism are convincing the public that colleges are getting rich exploiting their players.
The president’s comments dim hopes that round-the-clock trade negotiations between the world’s two biggest economies could lead to them removing the roughly $360 billion in tariffs they’ve imposed on each other’s imports.
Former Indiana Pacers star Chuck Person will serve prison time after admitting to taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer college basketball players to hire a financial adviser after they turned professional.
The same cutthroat competition and parental anxieties that drive affluent Americans to hire tutors, editors and strategists helped William Rick Singer build a profitable—and highly illegal—business.
