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...Ronald Huber spent 35 years as a steelworker, breathing in asbestos particles he never saw. In 1995, recruited by personal-injury lawyers he had never met, he joined a class action against 200 companies that made or distributed asbestos or products made with it. At the time, the only detail that really seemed to matter was that the lawyers were giving Huber a shot at what would become a $140 million settlement...
...Huber, who claims he is suffering from an asbestos-related illness, maintains that he never saw a dime. So on Feb. 7 he joined 2,644 other plaintiffs in another class action. This one charges six personal-injury attorneys and their firms in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pa., with fraud, malpractice and deception--or, as the complaint boldly states, "this case arises from corruption within the asbestos personal injury...
...wears thick glasses? Why aren't you rising up in wrath and getting in the face of the bullies and demanding that they stop it? Unless you show the misfits and outcasts that you care enough to protect them, you are as guilty as those doing the bullying. EDWARD HUBER Philadelphia...
...Creme de la Mer was invented by Max Huber in the 1960s to treat his own rocket-fuel burns. According to Estee Lauder, which owns the product, his formula consisted of fermenting a seaweed broth to the prerecorded gurglings of previous batches. Lauder researchers don't know why the sounds make a difference, but without them, they contend, the cream loses its potency...
...reviled managed-care provider, currently serving 19 million customers, this was a genuine peace offering. If Donaldson has his way, it won't be the last; he's already struck a deal with the Texas attorney general making similar concessions. Since taking over a few months ago from Richard Huber, the combative CEO who was forced out, Donaldson has been trying his best to mend the HMO giant's sickly relations with doctors and members, who view it as putting profits ahead of patients...