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Insurance Company Alleges Fraud Scheme with Staged Accidents and Litigation‑Driven Medicine
Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company (“GNY”) recently filed a sweeping 207 page civil RICO complaint in the Eastern District of New York alleging a multi-layered insurance fraud enterprise involving personal injury law firms, medical providers, litigation funders, “runners” and claimants. According to the complaint, the defendants orchestrated a years long scheme designed to manufacture…
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Iran Live Updates: Israel Attacks Beirut and Tehran as Fighting in Middle East Accelerates
The Israeli military said it had begun a “broad-scale” attack in Iran’s capital, hours after hitting Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon. The Pentagon said Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes were decreasing.
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Iran’s Friends Include China and Russia. But Where are They Now?
Iran maintains ties with a range of countries, including Turkey, India, Russia and China. Yet in this war, their support is mostly rhetoric.
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South African President on Trump’s Oval Office ‘Ambush’ and ‘Racist’ Policies
In an interview with The New York Times, President Cyril Ramaphosa opened up about the role of middle powers, relations with Washington and apartheid.
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James Luckey-Lange Recounts Being Detained, Starved and Beaten in Venezuela
James Luckey-Lange, 28, wrote about kindness and shared humanity as he traveled. But he said he had been shackled, starved and beaten in Venezuela after being detained.
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Israel Pushes Farther Into Lebanon, and Readies for More
Days into its offensive against Hezbollah, Israel is massing armored vehicles near the Lebanese border for a potentially much larger ground incursion.
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At the Whitney, a Biennial Gets Personal
For an unmoored time, 56 artists and teams present an inspired discourse shaped by crisis, craft and community. Look up, and listen.
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HBO’s “Rooster” is Almost an Endearing Comedy
“Rooster” could be considered the third entry in what I’ll refer to as Bill Lawrence’s “Likable White Guy Failing Upward” Trilogy, assuming, of course, that he stops at three. The first was “Ted Lasso,” which was co-created by Lawrence, Joe Kelly, Brendan Hunt and Jason Sudeikis and famously focused on an American football coach hired…
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To the Film Industry in Crisis, A Look Back At Hollywood In 1926
With the film industry once again in flux, be it the Paramount and Netflix bids for Warner Bros., the rise of AI, or general box office malaise, I thought it would be interesting to look back at what was going on in American film a century ago. It was another era full of change, as…
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Whatever You Think of “Wuthering Heights,” We Need More Filmmakers Like Emerald Fennell
Ever since the project was first announced, the discourse surrounding Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has been… let’s just call it intense. From its initial casting news to our first look at its costumes to the choice to bring back the same kinds of title quotes (i.e., “Wuthering Heights”) in the film’s…
