Mark Friedman

4 days ago | cell.com | David Ludwig |Jennie C Brand-Miller |Cara B. Ebbeling |Mark Friedman |Nicholas Norwitz |Adrian Soto-Mota

LetterVolume 37, Issue 6p1239-1240 1New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 3Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 4Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark 5School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 6Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA 7Metabolic...

5 days ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Mark Friedman

The Arkansas Securities Department wants to block a Garland County businessman from discharging debts owed to his companies’ investors, charging that he intentionally misled them and then gambled away some of the money. In November, Larry Joe Rucker filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which allows him to reorganize. Rucker listed his assets at just $28,685. His claims register summary in his bankruptcy case on Tuesday showed 52 claims totaling $849,610.

2 weeks ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Mark Friedman

After Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s worst financial loss ever and forecasts of more red ink this year, President and CEO Curtis Barnett is facing an inflection point in the health industry head-on. “It’s a moment of great promise, but it’s also a moment of great peril,” Barnett said in an interview earlier this month.

3 weeks ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Mark Friedman

The retrial of a trade secrets case against Walmart Inc. resulted in a worse outcome for the Bentonville retailer as a Little Rock federal jury on Tuesday awarded a California technology company $222.7 million — more than twice the amount a different jury awarded it in 2021. The jury awarded Zest Labs Inc. of San Jose, California, $72.7 million in compensatory damages and $150 million for punitive damages, making it one of the largest jury verdicts awarded in federal court in Arkansas.

3 weeks ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Mark Friedman

Nathan Myers grew tired of his friend Scott Roper canceling their Dungeons & Dragons game night because of work at his medical billing company. In health care billing, “you always run into a lot of unique and challenging problems you’re always trying to fix,” said Roper, vice president administration of Professional Consulting Services Inc. of Conway. Myers, who has started a few startup companies, said to Roper, “Can’t we fix this? Can we automate this? Like, what?