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That incident, along with complaints by Levang and other residents' families, prompted Minnesota attorney general Mike Hatch to sue Alterra for consumer fraud. The suit was settled, with Alterra agreeing to pay for an outside monitor. The center hired more staff, including a housekeeper, and modified its brochure, replacing the phrase "professionally trained" staff with "trained" staff. But for many of its other Minnesota facilities, Alterra insists having staff provide "holistic" care is effective...
...Producer Price Index, which measures commodities prices - fell 0.9 percent in July, its biggest decline since August 1993 and a whole lot more than the 0.3 percent forecasters had settled on. (Those guys seem to be wrong an awful lot lately, don?t they? Maybe somebody should sue...
Psychiatric social worker Sue Kutz agrees. She conducted a study of new mothers in Boston, expecting to find that moms who adjusted best were those in relationships in which husband and wife were well attuned to each other. She discovered to her surprise, though, that a better predictor was the number of nearby relatives the new mother could call on for assistance...
...Early in the week it looked certain that a bipartisan bill making it easy for patients to sue their HMOs would pass the House. Republican Charlie Norwood, a dentist turned Congressman and a leading voice on the issue, wasn't bowing to constant pressure from Bush. As Norwood shuttled back and forth between the White House and his allies - including Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy - he promised them he wouldn't sell...
...While Norwood was throwing his support behind the President's plan - which caps pain-and-suffering and punitive damages at a total of $3 million and allows patients to sue in state court but only under more strict federal guidelines - Norwood's allies were throwing their remotes at the TV. "Charlie, how the hell can you do this?" groaned Kennedy when Norwood came back to confront his old gang. Norwood admitted he didn't know the details of the deal he had just made. House G.O.P. leaders rushed the bill to the floor while it was still being written. Democrats...