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Independent Financial Group, LLC failed to ensure its employees were offering low-cost options to retail customers looking to rollover a 529 plan to another state.

A bankrupt city's only asset is mired in its history of corruption and a statewide fight over utilities privatization.

Bondholders are prepared to loan up to $22 million to the hospital.

Pension analysts are calling for higher contributions even as financial conditions improve.

Cook County released its $9.89 billion executive budget recommendation, with officials saying it includes no new taxes or layoffs.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital plans to sell about $222 million of tax-exempt, fixed-rate revenue bonds this week.

Eisner Advisory Group Partner Allen Wilen is the chief restructuring officer for Jackson Hospital & Clinic.

Fitch upgraded Chicago's issuer default rating and GO debt rating to A-minus from BBB-plus and the city's sales tax securitization bonds to AAA from AA-plus.

While it may cost the city more to sell its bonds, the negative outlook could increase market participation, one analyst said.

The county commission gave final approval to a nonprofit hospital bond and preliminary approval to a county government bond.

The system, along with UT Southwestern Medical Center, plan to build a $5 billion pediatric health campus in Dallas.

The 0.34% sales tax rate increase would raise an estimated $70 million annually for Colorado's only safety net healthcare provider.

Congress has taken no significant action on bills that would stop the depletion of the United States Virgin Islands' government pension system for 21 months.

The bankruptcy of Iowa City's Mercy Hospital is closer to an end with the resolution of a dispute between unsecured creditors and the trustee and bondholder.

The Washington state island hospital's financial turmoil brought rating downgrades from Moody's Ratings.

Rural hospitals and clinics are closing in Wisconsin while Democratic Gov. Tony Evers battles the state's Republican legislature over Medicaid expansion.

Escalating costs led University of Utah Health to seek a doubling of its bonding authority from the state legislature for a medical campus project.

Children's Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center are teaming up to finance and build a pediatric health campus that includes a hospital.

Colorado's sole public safety net healthcare provider faces rising uncompensated care costs, driven in part by treating thousands of uninsured migrants coming from the southern border.

After two auctions, Mercy Hospital, a nonprofit hospital in Iowa City, was sold, but bondholders' recovery will hinge on the Chapter 11 liquidation process.