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In the United States, most homes [1] are bought and sold using real estate agents affiliated with the National Association of Realtors (NAR), an industry lobbying group with over 1.5 million individual members. [2] NAR permits only its members to call themselves Realtors.
NAR and the other brokerages must pay $1.8 billion in damages to the 500,000 home sellers in Missouri and in some nearby out-of-state towns represented by the class-action lawsuit, which was ...
The NAR currently represents about 1.6 million Realtors, with 90% of agents cashing in an average commission of 5% to 6% — equal to $100 billion in annual commissions.
President Truman, who was a strong supporter of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill which would instate a national medical insurance program financed by taxes, was elected in the late 1940s and the AMA spent over $1 million on an anti-health reform campaign, denouncing the bill and fueled even more by cold war rhetoric of socialism. As illustrated ...
Americans owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. In one of the states hardest hit, North Carolina, Terry Belk is still trying to pay for his late wife's cancer treatment and his own.
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there have been numerous actions in federal courts to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation. [1] [2] They include challenges by states against the ACA, reactions from legal experts with respect to its constitutionality, several federal court rulings on the ACA's constitutionality, the final ruling on the constitutionality of the ...
Wilk v. American Medical Association, 895 F.2d 352 (7th Cir. 1990), [1] was a federal antitrust suit brought against the American Medical Association (AMA) and 10 co-defendants by chiropractor Chester A. Wilk, DC, and four co-plaintiffs. It resulted in a ruling against the AMA.
Her past medical expenses were $10,500; her anticipated future medical expenses were approximately $2,500; and her daughter's [15] loss of income was approximately $5,000 for a total of approximately $18,000. [18] McDonald's offered only $800. [19] When McDonald's refused to raise its offer, Liebeck retained the Texas attorney Reed Morgan.