At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

made imperfect decisions under extreme psychological strain. He said the insurance denial unfairly interpreted ordinary marital breakdown as predatory conduct. He said the situation had become public in ways damaging to his client’s livelihood.

Marcus waited until the man ran out of polished nouns.

Then he slid a file across the table.

“Tab three,” he continue reading …