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...YORK City hotel, after two adversaries agreed to settle a hard-fought case about defective plumbing pipes. "What are you going to do next?" New York attorney Marc Kasowitz asked. Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, explained that he was involved in his state's lawsuit to recoup Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses. Kasowitz quizzed him, but, says Barrett, "I didn't realize he was the personal friend and attorney for Ben LeBow." Not until a few weeks later, that is, when Kasowitz called Barrett to arrange a meeting and floated the news that his client, Bennett LeBow, majority...
...cuts. This meeting comes one day after Clinton unveiled his 1997 budget proposal, which provides tax cuts for families, billions in savings from Medicare, welfare and other benefit programs, and increased spending on the environment, education and advanced technology. The Republicans seek deeper tax cuts and greater reductions to Medicaid and Medicare. But before the two sides can turn to the 1997 budget, they need to resolve this year's budget war. On Tuesday, the Senate passed a $166 billion bill to fund dozens of government agencies through September. The House has already passed a smaller version. The two chambers...
...ORLEANS: The Liggett Group, America's fifth largest cigarette maker, agreed Friday to end lawsuits with five states by paying their Medicaid costs for smoking-related ailments. Liggett consented to pay Mississippi, Massachusetts, Florida, Louisiana and West Virginia ten million dollars and seven and a half percent of its annual profit for the next 25 years. In addition, the states are entitled to divide two and a half percent of Liggett's yearly profits to compensate future Medicaid costs, and annual payments to cover state medical expenses already incurred. Another five percent of the tobacco company's income...
...Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though elected with the help of tobacco contributions, claims he is no special friend to the cigarette makers, but is merely concerned that industry will be driven from...
...tobacco wars may be hottest in Florida right now. In the last five minutes of the last day of the 1994 session, the state legislature overwhelmingly--and according to some, unwittingly--passed Senate Bill 2110, a Medicaid amendment that holds the tobacco industry responsible for the estimated $300 million to $800 million a year the state pays to treat tobacco-related illnesses and that allows lawsuits to collect these funds to use statistical evidence compiled by the Centers for Disease Control. "Profound sneak attack," charges one tobacco lobbyist. The tobacco industry and some associated industries, like U.S. Sugar, filed suit...