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Indeed it is. Around the country, TIME correspondents listened to passionate arguments by people on both sides of the insurance crisis. Recalls Chicago Correspondent Barbara Dolan: "There were emotional interviews with people who claimed to suffer horrible damages from negligence and equally emotional sessions with insurers who thought that they were being driven out of business by Americans' greed." In the course of her reporting, Washington Correspondent Anne Constable was similarly struck by the human and legal dimensions of the liability-insurance problem. Says she: "Amid all the tangled issues that lawmakers are sorting through, there are some real flesh...
...also thinking about buying a hotel chain and an auto-rental company to combine with TWA. That would enable customers to reserve a plane seat, car and bed with one phone call. Says Icahn: "I've still got a nose for deals, and I intend to make some." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York
...they have had a less salutary effect on many patients. The Washington-based American Association of Retired Persons has received hundreds of letters from patients who claim they were kicked out of hospitals prematurely. "Some still had high temperatures, draining wounds, and were feeling terrible," says Barbara Herzog, director of AARP's health-care campaign. "Many had no one to care for them properly at home and could not get admission into a nursing home...
When he died in 1983 at the age of 87, J. Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson health-care fortune, left an estate of perhaps $500 million. By the terms of his last will, nearly all of it went to his much younger third wife Barbara, a Polish immigrant who was once the family chambermaid. And thereby hangs a legal squabble currently featuring the unkindest courtroom disclosures this side of the Von Bülow case. Johnson's six children by previous marriages were virtually all cut from the will. They tar their stepmother as a scheming shrew who came...
...unfolding in a New York City courtroom, the case has already generated paper on a scale more typical of an antitrust battle. Not even writers of Dynasty could have dished such a saucy stew. In the courtroom, the children pointedly ignore Barbara Johnson, 49, who each day sits just a few feet from them, looking serene and expensively groomed--a far cry from the Polish art-history graduate who arrived in the U.S. in 1968 with just $100 and a few words of English. She went to work as a maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years...