Laurie Cohen

It was the day before Christmas Eve, and the City of Chicago had its heart set on a particularly valuable present: as much as $10 million extra for its coffers...

Two weeks ago, several employees in the U.S. Marshals Service office in Chicago confronted their boss with an urgent complaint. Inexperienced deputies were escorting prisoners from federal court to their...

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., the company that installed the river pilings being blamed for Chicago`s Loop flood, acknowledged Thursday that it erred in certifying it was eligible to...

On the eve of the 1988 NCAA basketball tournament, there was a festive gathering in a private club on the 56th floor of the First Chicago Center, the swept-sided headquarters...

In workplaces throughout the Chicago area and across the United States, law professor Anita Hill`s allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas are prompting women to talk-to other women and,...

Developer Michael Reschke usually doesn`t court publicity. But last week, the 35-year-old wunderkind of Chicago real estate sat in his opulent sales office, under a ceiling painted like the daytime...

Through most of their history, U.S. insurance companies and their agents have united whenever federal regulation of the industry was attempted, earning a reputation for invincibility that rivals the gun...

The Long Island Jewish Medical Center recently performed a procedure that`s the envy of employers across the country: It extracted about $75 million of its workers` tax-sheltered retirement savings from...

Though ratings downgrades for six major insurance companies have heightened public anxiety about the industry`s financial health, demands to cash in policies increased modestly, if at all, at the affected...

For more than two years Illinois Public Action has crusaded against alleged consumer ripoffs by title insurers. Now some title insurance companies are charging that the consumer group`s actions might...