Americans are required to pay for car insurance as a condition of driving. Yet very often, insurance doesn’t pay out when policy holders file a claim. 45% of auto liability and medical claims closed last year went unpaid by insurers, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of thousands of company regulatory filings. That rate might change

U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is urging Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz to immediately reinstate a key transparency deadline requiring Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to report detailed information about their ownership, management, and related-party financial arrangements. U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also signed the letter. “Billions

Memorandum of Current Issues By:      Gary W. Poliakoff, Attorney Re:      Northmark Strategies Data Center, a/k/a Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center located at 4000 S. Pine St., Spartanburg, SC 29302 Issue:  Application for Synthetic Minor Air Construction Permit by Submitted Valara March 4, 2026. Note: Valara Holdings, LLC is a subsidiary of Northmark

Medicare Advocacy published an article asking that question. The well-known and long standing problem of national for-profit chains and individual nursing homes neglect vulnerable adults under their care; provide poor care, and yet year after year, they remain eligible to receive taxpayer funds via Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. As previously covered by the Center for

Fox Carolina reported on the lawsuit against an unpopular data center being built in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The $3 billion data center proposed by developer Valara Holdings on South Pine Street has been the subject of outrage among Spartanburg residents, as well as this lawsuit. Indeed, there has been nationwide controversy over rapid data center development