A daughter holding power-of-attorney for her aging mother won an arbitration ruling for the lack of disclosure given by a registered representative at LPL.  The broker instructed the client to withdraw funds from a maturing... read more...

Theranos, a lab-testing company that operates blood-drawing sites in Walgreen’s drugstores, was the subject of a study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine.  The study showed that results for cholesterol tests done by... read more...

A day after the Obama administration limited the ability of U.S. companies to do international deals to lighten tax burdens, Pfizer and Allergan terminated their $150 billion merger as other companies raced to assess the... read more...

Ride-hailing company Uber will pay $10 million to settle allegations by the state of California that it misled passengers about the quality of its background checks on drivers.  Under the settlement, Uber agreed to pay... read more...

The Obama administration is racing to make a flurry of final regulations that will affect large portions of the economy further riling up U.S. businesses in an election season that has already been tough on... read more...

Back in February 2015, the IRS commissioner disclosed that unauthorized individuals gained access to sensitive taxpayer information from its ‘Get Transcript’ application.  A February 2016 update showed that another 390,000 accounts were inappropriately accessed, bringing... read more...

Verizon Communications Inc. said that an attacker had exploited a vulnerability on its enterprise client portal to steal contact information on customers.  A member of an underground cybercrime forum posted a thread advertising the sale... read more...