Word: fraud
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...weeks ago awarded Goodrich's estate almost $750,000 in compensatory damages for medical costs and $3.8 million for "loss of companionship and support." In a separate decision last Wednesday, it topped those figures off with a breathtaking $116 million in punitive damages, concluding that Aetna had acted with fraud and malice. The jury "sent a message," says Jamie Court, director of Consumers for Quality Care, a California-based watchdog group. Not just to the HMOs, he adds, but also to Congress, which should "pay attention to denial of rights that kills patients...
...everyone said no, and soon reports were rife in the Olympic community of five-star boondoggles and outright fraud. You just weren't a self-respecting I.O.C. member if you weren't demanding first-class travel. You were something of a boob if you weren't cashing in those tickets, buying coach and keeping the change. Where once Killy gave out pens, suitor cities now offered furs, jewelry and fine wines. Robert Helmick, a former I.O.C. member and U.S.O.C. president who resigned in 1991 when it was alleged that he had violated U.S.O.C. conflict-of-interest guidelines by representing clients...
INDICTED. GARTH DRABINSKY, 48, and mYRON GOTTLIEB, 55, founders of the Toronto-based theatrical production company Livent, Inc.; by a federal grand jury; on 16 counts of criminal fraud and conspiracy; in New York City. The U.S. alleged that the partners, who produced such Broadway extravaganzas as Showboat and Ragtime, led an eight-year scheme to fake earnings or hide financial losses and siphon off some $4.6 million. In a separate civil complaint, the SEC charged the two with securities fraud. Drabinsky denied the charges and blamed the company's "new management" for the imbroglio...
Carmen Benson, who has been a caseworker at the Davis Square DTA for 14 years, says she suspects that along with strongly ingrained lifestyle habits, welfare fraud-such as when recipients don't tell the DTA that their living partner gets income-may be partly to blame for the lack of response to these programs...
Kennedy also discredits the notion of prevalent welfare fraud...