| State responds with a refund
I have a policy with New Jersey Family Care with a monthly co-pay of $17.50 for my son. The state committed a typing error last year and instead of the $17.50, I was charged $117.50 for March 2006. It meant I had to pay $235 one month, which included an adjustment from the previous month. I filed a grievance with New Jersey Family Care and my co-pay reverted to $17.50, where it has remained each month. However, I have been unable to collect a refund, which amounts to $199. I have placed calls once or twice a week for more than a year. I have spoken to supervisors, and they have said they will call me back after looking into the matter. I had to borrow money for that payment. I've enclosed documents; can Action Express help? Rebecca Werkheiser Phillipsburg Refund sent, thanks to New Jersey Department of Human Services, which oversees Family Care.
Insider Trading at American Home?
Michael Strauss , the founder and chief executive of American Home Mortgage Investment (ahmiq.pk.PK), has faced a swarm of problems in recent months. One of the biggest, fastest-growing mortgage lenders in the country, its shares had slipped from a high of $36.40 last December to $10.47 by late July as the housing crisis deepened. .
'Grey's' star blasts celebrity news
Ellen Pompeo says Hollywood socialites "who are rich and famous for nothing" set a bad example. "I just think the media should take this country in a different direction," the 37-year-old actress tells the new issue of Los Angeles Confidential Magazine, on newsstands Wednesday. .
Teaneck will likely get that chance - Editorial
NEW Jersey's politicians have approached campaign-finance reform at a glacial pace mainly because, according to their calculations, nobody cares about it. This fall, Teaneck voters will likely have a rare opportunity to prove otherwise. They should seize it. .
(AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-03 23:01 GMT: Judge: Fen-Phen lawyers owe $62 million
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Three attorneys accused of bilking their clients in a diet drug settlement must repay at least $62.1 million in settlement funds and interest, a judge ruled Friday. Special Judge William Wehr ordered William J. Gallion, 56, Shirley A. Cunningham Jr., 52, and Melbourne Mills Jr., 76, to repay $42 million taken from the settlement and $20.1 million in interest. Wehr said the interest was 8 percent over the six years the attorneys had the funds. The attorneys are being sued by about 400 former clients who claim the lawyers took too much money as part of a $200 million fen-phen settlement. Gallion and Cunningham own a 20 percent stake in Curlin, who won the second leg of the Triple Crown in May. A federal grand jury indicted the attorneys last month, charging them with conspiring to commit wire fraud in representing more than 400 people in a lawsuit over the diet drug.
Basketball: Tall Blacks notch first European win
New Zealand recorded the first win of their whistle-stop tour of Europe this morning (NZ time), pipping hosts Croatia 79-77. After going winless in three matches in Latvia last week and then losing 79-85 in the first World Cup tournament match against Finland on Monday, victory was a boost for the Tall Blacks. Guard Kirk Penney, who produced a game-high 29 points, said it was the ideal result looking ahead to this month's Olympic qualifying series against Australia. "To come back and pull of a performance like that moves us forward toward what we'll be trying to do against Australia," Penney said. "It was a full house and came down to the dying seconds, which was good for us. "It's an in-game experience which will hopefully come in handy against Aussie." Penney agreed the Tall Blacks had yet to produce their best under the new coaching regime of Nenad Vucinic but felt they were improving at a healthy rate.
Madison County, once a 'judicial hellhole,' finds new respect
When Ann Callis took over as the county's top judge last year, Madison County was known in legal circles as a place where record-setting class action, personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuit verdicts were de rigueur.With some 1,400 asbestos cases settled here in 2001 and 2002 alone, the county over time became the poster child for frivolous lawsuits.In 2003, the American Tort Reform Association ranked the county as the top "Judicial Hellhole" in the nation; in 2005, President Bush picked Madison County as the backdrop for his tort reform efforts.So it came as a surprise for her last week when Callis, speaking at a Chicago luncheon for the Illinois Civil Justice League - a group of insurance executives, doctors, tort reform supporters and other business-types - was met with a standing ovation."It was a surprise," said Callis, after the event.
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