By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Every eligible hospital in North Carolina has opted in to Gov. Roy Cooper’s medical debt relief initiative, which promises extra payments to hospitals that agree to forgive old medical debt and beef up their charity care policies, state officials said Monday. The program calls for hospitals to…
In February 2020, with the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader heating up, Keir Starmer’s office received a helping hand. Peter Coates, the head of the dynasty behind Stoke-based online gambling company Bet365, donated £25,000 to Starmer’s office. Coates and the Bet365 group had been regular donors to Labour until 2015, to the…
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Monday that 2 million North Carolinians will have their medical debt forgiven after all the state’s 99 acute hospitals signed up for a landmark program designed to wipe out debt for low- and middle-income patients. The announcement comes after last month’s federal approval of the Cooper administration’s plan to forgive…
An intermediate aged boy who was spending all night online gambling racked up $16,000 on his mother’s credit card, Mapu Maia chief executive Pesio Ah-Honi said. Photo: 123RF Children as young as 11 are racking up thousands of dollars in debt because of online gambling, according to a support service. The head of Mapu Maia…
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Betting companies are taking advantage of weak advertising and consumer protection laws to offer inducements that encourage riskier bets and are cynically targeting people with gambling problems through tailored, personalised marketing. Inducements are insidiously packaged so a customer feels they are taking a ‘safer bet’, when research shows it actually leads to more intense betting…
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By Alex Raskin and Associated Press Published: 05:02 AEST, 11 July 2024 | Updated: 05:40 AEST, 11 July 2024 Banned NBA player Jontay Porter has admitted to tipping off gamblers in the $1 million scheme that resulted in his lifetime suspension from the league. The 24-year-old former Toronto Raptors forward pleaded guilty to wire fraud…
(Bloomberg) — Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Brightspeed reached a deal with a group of lenders to slash US$1.1 billion of the telecom company’s debt and receive $3.7 billion of new capital. Brightspeed is getting the new capital from all of its secured lenders and Apollo, according to a statement. Amendments to the fiber firm’s existing…
Victoria’s Supreme Court of Appeal has wiped a punter’s $150,000 debt after ruling paperwork failures rendered the bets invalid. Bookmaker David McLauchlan took action against punter Allen Ng after the punter incurred hefty losses between February and April 2020. The County Court ruled in McLauchlan’s favour in 2022, ordering Ng to pay the debt and…