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...state of Florida agrees. Last week it filed a $1.43 billion suit against the tobacco industry to recoup money spent treating Medicaid patients with smoking-related ailments. West Virginia, Minnesota, and Mississippi have filed similar suits. Meanwhile, a U.S. district judge in New Orleans just cleared the way for a class action by three current smokers and the wife of a deceased smoker who claim that tobacco manufacturers hid the addictive properties of nicotine. If the suit proceeds, almost anyone who is "nicotine dependent" could join and seek up to $50,000 each from cigarette makers. Says Florida Governor Lawton...
...There was an agreement, but something changedat the last minute," the former executive said."HMC was trying to recoup as much as possible andI think they were pushing to liquidate. In the endthere was a forced liquidation by the bank...
Flyers willing to pay the higher price, Harrison says, would recoup their investment in time saved. He offers the example of a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo that takes 10.3 hours today, but would take only 4.3 hours in an HSCT...
Medicare pays teaching hospitals based on the national average cost of the operation, but since teaching hospitals' operations consistently cost more than the average, the hospitals must recoup the lost revenue by other means...
Whether they're putting their paychecks in or taking cash out, Americans like Gordon are increasingly feeling the pinch as U.S. banks raise their fees for everything from bounced checks to automated cash transactions. To recoup profits lost to bad loans as well as to aggressive rivals like money-market funds that offer their own checking accounts, commercial banks nearly doubled their service charges between 1985 and 1992, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), a Washington-based consumer lobby. Even the victims of bad checks must now routinely shell out fees for the pain of having been...