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...more expensive alternative medication, Accupril, but her managed-care company refused to cover the cost. Milburn, who lives on $440 a month in Social Security benefits, had to lay out about $30 a month of her own money until the company eventually relented under the threat of a lawsuit. Says Milburn: "Thirty dollars a month doesn't seem like much, but to me, trying to get by on $440 a month, it was an awful...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich found himself in the middle of a new ethics controversy after the Federal Election Commission released internal papers from GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich once headed. The FEC charged that the documents--filed in a lawsuit against GOPAC--indicate the group improperly subsidized Gingrich's 1990 campaign, in which he narrowly won re-election. One document, a transcript of a gopac meeting, refers to ''a quarter of a million dollars in 'Newt support.'" The Speaker denounced the accusations as "totally phony...
...only state and local races, which would be outside the realm of federal financial-disclosure rules. The agency probed the matter following a Democratic complaint in 1990, and Gingrich has said the FEC offered to settle it for $150,000. But when GOPAC refused, the FEC filed a civil lawsuit last year. Last week the agency submitted several thousand pages of documents to support its case...
...promised that "as long as there is no team in Cleveland, there will be no peace." Glenn and Stokes said they would introduce in their respective Houses a bill called the Fans Rights Act, which would 1) grant a limited antitrust exemption shielding a professional sports league from a lawsuit if the league blocks a relocation, and 2) require a team intending to move to give 180 days' notice, during which time the jilted hometown could try to induce it to stay. Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, who is about to lose the Oilers to Nashville, said he simply didn...
...another book, he says. But there may have been other, more pressing reasons. Three weeks ago, a civil jury found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began last week, the Colorado attorney general's office charged that Huggins used fraud and "pseudo science" to frighten...