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Unlike Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry whistle-blower made famous in the movie The Insider, Potter doesn't have a smoking gun or secret documents to unveil. He signed a confidentiality agreement before leaving Cigna and intends to honor it. "I have no intention of disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more...
When former Brown & Williamson executive Jeffrey Wigand went up against Big Tobacco in 1995, he had to have a bodyguard. Now, thanks in part to a Hollywood movie, The Insider, he is a full-time crusader, arguing for smoking bans around the world and testifying last week in a federal racketeering case against tobacco companies. He spoke with TIME's Amanda Ripley...
...pointedly directing patients away from Albany Surgical and me in particular." Phoebe calls that claim abhorrent. But Bagnato is convinced, "If they could get away with firing me, I think they would." Rehberg, who filed counterclaims against Phoebe last week, now has the same security guard who protected Jeffrey Wigand. "Given a choice," Rehberg says, "I prefer to sit in back and observe. But I can't quietly tolerate injustice." Neither, apparently, can Scruggs. --With reporting by Anne Berryman/Albany, Alice Jackson-Baughn/ Jackson and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
RICHARD SCRUGGS IS CORPORATE America's worst legal nightmare. In the 1980s and early '90s, he made millions litigating asbestos claims and went on to national fame for beating Big Tobacco, representing the whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, subject of the movie The Insider. Scruggs' tobacco suits netted his practice an estimated $1 billion, money that bought him toys, from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs...
...million an album.) The split was bitter, and Carey came to suspect that Mottola was trying to defame her--to make Mariah a pariah. Earlier this summer she hired Jack Palladino, a San Francisco-based private eye who worked for Bill Clinton in the Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider tobacco case. "My client had a belief there is a negative campaign against her," Palladino told TIME, "and the suspicion that Tommy Mottola was behind it... Her beliefs were well founded... My client is not going to be a victim. She is determined that this is going...