A lawsuit accuses Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban of wrongfully diverting millions of dollars from the NBA franchise’s home arena to make up for shortfalls incurred by the team. Hillwood Center Partners filed the lawsuit last week in state district court in Dallas. The company is controlled by the team’s former owner, Ross Perot Jr. […]
Along with the debut of this new column, focusing on style in Indy and beyond, comes a Broad Ripple shopping
shuffle, where the reorganization of two mainstays has given way to new life along the canal.
Developer Lauth Group Inc. is sparing no expense on attorneys in the Chapter 11 reorganization of key subsidiaries. The company has hired two of the nation’s most prominent bankruptcy and restructuring specialists to handle the cases, and the bill for the first month easily will exceed $1 million.
Nobody familiar with the intricacies of naming a business thinks the process is easy. Not if the messages
words send to potential customers are grasped.
So itâ??s easy to understand why the Indianapolis area is filling up with companies one way…
Technologists don’t usually give the law a basketful of respect. From our point of view, the law is struggling frantically to stay within a hundred yards of our bleeding edge. By the time the law gets around to speaking on a technical subject, the subject may not even exist anymore.
City to unleash $3.8 million for improvements in United North West Area.
The Indiana State Medical Association has filed a formal complaint against Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana for ongoing claims-payment issues. The doctors group, in an announcement today, contends that computer problems at Anthem have yet to be resolved, breaching a 2005 court settlement reached by doctors and Anthem’s parent company, Indianapolis-based WellPoint […]
If you want to see a physical therapist in Indiana, you must first see a physician for a consultation
and referral. It’s the law. Indiana is one of only six states where patients are denied direct
access to physical therapy treatment, and one of only two states where evaluation without referral is
prohibited.
The Senate health committee cast a milestone vote today to approve legislation expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans, becoming the first congressional panel to act on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. The 13-10 party line vote advanced a $600 billion measure that would require individuals to get health insurance and employers to contribute […]
Ivy Tech Community College and the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority are offering free training to contractors who want to work with an energy-conservation program. Officials say the training will help contractors learn about weatherization and energy-conservation techniques they can use in people’s homes. Contractors who complete the training will be eligible to do […]
Whether he ever gets another job as a basketball coach remains to be seen, but Bob Knight is still The General.
During an exhibition softball game played in St. Louis in conjunction with the…
Like it or not, the Indy Racing League is becoming an international series, with American drivers like
Patrick, Andretti and Rahal and internationally known drivers such as Castroneves, Kanaan, Mutoh and
Meira.
This year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival gets rolling later this usual, with a bump to summer precipitated
in part by the moving on of its founder to the Nashville Film Festival and in part by the move of most of the fest (minus
parties) to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We’ve spent the last few weeks reviewing most of the
features in competition.
Bashing the president is a time-honored tradition in the United States going all the way back to George
Washington himself and honed to a fine point by the Jefferson/Adams exchanges.
Michael Phelps hits the pool in downtown Indianapolis today in his biggest swim meet since the Beijing Olympics. Phelps will swim the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter butterfly at the U.S. Nationals at the Natatorium at IUPUI. Phelps is remaking himself with a focus on the shorter events as he heads toward the 2012 London Olympics, […]
A bankruptcy judge has ruled that General Motors Corp. can sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, potentially clearing the way for the automaker to quickly emerge from bankruptcy protection. U.S. Judge Robert Gerber said in his 95-page ruling late yesterday that the sale was in the best interests of both GM […]
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is conducting an internal investigation to examine how officers responded to a 21-year-old woman’s call for help weeks before she was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend, Matthew Ford.Caitlin Walter was killed in her Indianapolis apartment in May. Ford, 28, the son of a veteran IMPD officer, killed himself after shooting […]
A bankruptcy judge has ruled that General Motors Corp. can sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, potentially clearing the way for the automaker to quickly emerge from bankruptcy protection. U.S. Judge Robert Gerber said in his 95-page ruling late yesterday that the sale was in the best interests of both GM […]
Carmel-based mobile marketer Tetherball has deployed a program using
a radio frequency identification device that can measure in detail to what extent customers redeem loyalty and rewards offers.
While transparency is a stated goal of many corporations, deliberations regarding distribution of shareholder property
to executives are not subject to light of day or to review. Instead, decision-making is camouflaged by
thousands of words that appear substantial but disclose little.
