Word: payment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas the lawsuit brought by Dr. Maidenberg and four other doctors accuses Aetna of violating their "property rights" by taking away their patients. In Florida, when the Humana insurance plan sued Dr. Ira Jacobson because the Miami family physician quit and took 170 Humana patients with him, it demanded payment of $700 a head for its lost customers. A state appeals court ruled in December 1992 that Dr. Jacobson owed nothing; after all, said the court, Humana did not own the patients...
...arena of decent size was willing to book the band. Ticketmaster denies that it has interfered in any way with Pearl Jam bookings. Artists afraid to be quoted by name claim that after buying out competing agencies like Ticketron, Ticketmaster is so powerful that it can hold up payment of ticket receipts for months, block bookings or just "experience computer problems" in selling tickets for a troublesome act, so that seats go unsold. Ticketmaster denies that it engages in such practices...
...lots of candidates want to make a down payment. In the Texas Democratic Senate primary this year, opponents of former Ross Perot aide Richard Fisher ridiculed him for describing himself as a "small businessman." He earns millions of dollars a year as a money manager. But Fisher spent $1.8 million of it on the primary and won. Likewise, legal-services entrepreneur Joel Hyatt's matronly opponent for an Ohio Democratic senatorial nomination employed what the local press dubbed a "Mom vs. the Millionaire" offense; Hyatt retaliated with $209,000 in television spots the week of their primary...
...what amounts to somewhat of a gamble students will be able to have their payment rate be contingent upon their incomes, with the more financially successful paying higher rates. Similar programs have been tried in Canada, Australia and some Scandinavian countries...
Duehay says the $1.2 million payment Harvardmakes annually to the city in lieu of taxes isinsignificant compared to the approximately $30-40million Harvard would pay if it were a for-profitcorporation...