Houston to Settle Paramedics OT Dispute
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Houston's City Council approved a &#36;79.5 million settlement of paramedics' nine-year legal battle to collect overtime pay.
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HOUSTON -- Carlos Beltran met with Astros officials on Wednesday, Houston&#39;s latest effort to keep the All-Star center fielder who led the team within one win of its first World Series.
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HOUSTON -- Houston Texans defensive tackle Cedric Killings was able to stand in the hospital on Monday and doctors are confident he'll soon be walking.
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A judge, while raising the possibility of an out-of-court settlement, ruled the sexual harassment case against New York Knicks coach and general manager Isiah Thomas will go before a jury this year.
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HOUSTON â NASA is hustling to organize its plans for the crew of space shuttle Atlantis today following a medical issue with one of its crew members on Saturday.
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(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A strike by more than 2,500 home health care aides has been averted. The union and the health care provider that employs them have agreed to take their dispute over hourly wages to binding arbitration.
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The state government is scrambling for a solution to the medical malpractice insurance quandary. While everyone agrees a solution must be found, differences abound as to what that solution might be.
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Three former security guards who say Britney Spears owes them overtime pay must settle their claims through arbitration, a judge ruled Monday.
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Three amendments on malpractice suits and patient safety passed, but doctors and lawyers remain at odds. By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Four medical device makers will pay a total of $311 million and agreed to federal monitoring to settle a government probe into consulting deals prosecutors said were made with surgeons to sway decisions on which hip and knee implants to give to patients.
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Postal union leaders agree a deal aimed at solving a dispute over pay and conditions.
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Kevin Everett will be transferred Friday morning to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
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By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 3--Houston is trying to become the first place in Texas to set a standard for hazardous air pollutants, a move that would make the city stricter than the state and federal government in policing the amount of cancer-causing substances in its air.
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ManTech International Corp. of Fairfax won a $19.3 million contract to provide engineering and technical services to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
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HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK, an  operator of health care facilities, said on Thursday it agreed  to pay $325 million to settle U.S. Department of Justice  charges that it improperly billed Medicare.
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A long dispute over insurance claims for the World Trade Center is settled, clearing the way for redevelopment.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Rehabilitation hospital operator HealthSouth will pay $325 million to settle charges that it improperly billed the government&#39;s Medicare system.