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News from the States
State News Headlines
October 12, 2007
The following headlines are compiled as an internal service for state Attorney General offices only. This list is not exhaustive and is a snapshot of news from around the country compiled through the use of various search engines.
Minnesota Limit on Gifts to Doctors May Catch On
There are bagels and fruit in the morning, sandwiches at lunch, fresh cookies in the afternoon and an occasional restaurant dinner, but many of the doctors who routinely accept these goodies from pharmaceutical sales representatives say they see sales people for the educational messages they bring, not the food. New Jersey’s attorney general, Anne Milgram, who announced on Sept. 18 the creation of a task force to examine ways to limit the gifts and money that drug and device makers give doctors, said in an interview that she planned to look closely at Minnesota’s food limit. Full Article
Insurer to pay up to $500,000 in probe
Insurer HealthMarkets — under investigation by 36 states and facing a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general — has agreed to pay up to $500,000 to settle concerns raised about its business practices in Delaware. The Texas-based firm, whose insurance subsidiaries include Mega Life and Mid-West National, could reduce the fine to $100,000 if it complies with all the terms of a settlement released Wednesday. Full Article
33 Firms Probed on Student Loan Tactics
J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are among 33 companies New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed or requested documents from in a probe of deceptive tactics for marketing college loans.
Cuomo is investigating whether the companies used misleading offers, fraudulent solicitations or illegal incentives to get students to apply for loans or loan consolidations, he said in a statement.
Cops: Columbia Turns Over Security Tapes
NEW YORK -- The graduate school where a noose was found on the door of a black professor agreed Thursday to turn over security videotape after withholding it while police sought a subpoena to acquire the evidence. ….The state Attorney General's office sent lawyers from its civil rights bureau and investigators to look into the incident, said spokesman Jeffrey Lerner. Full Article
State defies high court over sex offenders
SACRAMENTO -- -- Vowing to fight an order from the state's highest court, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and corrections officials Thursday defiantly began sending hundreds of freed sex offenders back to prison for violating strict residency requirements imposed by voters last year. Full Article
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