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Although it’s often presumed that emergency room visits are for people without health care coverage, a new poll of emergency physicians shows that’s not the case.

What do you get when you combine more than 900 brokers, a hundred or so exhibitors, a couple of politicians, nearly two dozen breakout sessions and a lot of energy? The Benefits Selling Expo 2011, held at the Nashville, Tenn., Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.

Attorneys for the players filed a 39-page argument in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Friday.

Justice Elena Kagan might have angered some conservatives when she chose not to recuse herself from Monday’s decision not to fast-track the high court’s review of Virginia’s challenge to the health care reform law. But it’s really not surprising she didn’t—or that some people are upset about it—political pundits say.

Shares of Cerner Corp. jumped Friday after the electronic medical records company posted strong first-quarter results and increased contract bookings, and raised its expectations for the full year.

The NFL cleared the way for some basic football operations to begin at 8 a.m. EDT Friday, five days after a federal judge declared the lockout illegal and nearly seven weeks after it began.

Merck & Co. on Friday said its first-quarter profit more than tripled as strong sales of key drugs and lower costs from integrating its Schering-Plough acquisition offset competition from generic drugs that slashed sales of two heart drugs.

Humana Inc. reports first-quarter financial results on Monday before the market opens.