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State launches Lap-Band investigation
The California Department of Insurance is investigating the business practices of Lap-Band surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, according to insurer Aetna Inc.
The insurance giant said in a statement that it was...Tags: Marketing, Criminal Laws, Advertising, Prosecution, Criminals
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Clinics halt Lap-Band surgeries
Two clinics tied to 1-800-GET-THIN have temporarily halted Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries after the device's maker said it would no longer sell to companies affiliated with the massive advertising campaign.
The two brothers identified in lawsuits as...Tags: Laws, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Food and Drug Administration, Music
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Doctor accused of 'gross negligence' in death of Lap-Band patient
The Medical Board of California has faulted a doctor in the 2010 death of a Lap-Band patient who had surgery at a clinic affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign, filing charges that could cause him to lose his license to practice.
The board has...Tags: Laws, Food and Drug Administration, Anesthesiology, Marketing, Health
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Inaction by regulators as weight loss surgery allegations mount
Several current or former workers for the people behind those 1-800-GET-THIN ads have made allegations about this weight-loss enterprise that government regulators should have gotten to the bottom of long ago. Taken together, the allegations are that...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Cosmetic Procedures, Marketing, Weight, Insurance
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Occupy Oakland: Arrests may top 400; City Hall vandalized
L.A. NOWOfficials said Sunday that arrests from the Occupy Oakland protests the day before could reach 400 and vowed to seek restitution from those who vandalized City Hall. Mayor Jean Quan said the city would seek monetary damages from protesters. In...... -
Oakland officials assess damage to City Hall by Occupy protesters
L.A. NOWOfficials here surveyed damage Sunday from a volatile Occupy protest that spurred hundreds of arrests the day before and left the historic City Hall vandalized after demonstrators broke into the building, smashed display cases, cut electrical wires and... -
Ways to prevent LAPD from crashing their cruisers [Ted Rall cartoon]
Opinion L.A.Los Angeles Police Department cruisers are involved in an average of one crash per day, reports Times staff writer Joel Rubin. Most of the crashes were minor, but some resulted in life-threatening injuries or totaled police cars, or were the...... -
Justice Department opinion allows states to offer online gambling
Money & CompanyThe Justice Department has opened a window for states to offer their residents online gambling, saying such activity would not violate existing federal law. The legal opinion could be a boon for states looking for ways to expand their lotteries...... -
Legal war in Durham, N.C.: Judge suspends district attorney
Nation NowA North Carolina judge has suspended Tracey Cline, the confrontational district attorney in Durham, N.C.... -
British police arrest five in phone-hacking inquiry
World NowMurdoch phone hacking journalism tabloids: British police arrested four journalists and a police officer and searched the offices of Rupert Murdoch's News International company Saturday as part of their inquiry into illegal phone hacking and corrupt... -
Tucson ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge says
Nation NowAn Arizona administrative law judge affirmed a prior decision by the state's schools chief that the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American studies program violates a law that aims to outlaw divisive ethnic studies classes.... -
CHP settles suit over leaked photos of dead O.C. girl
L.A. NOWFive years after grisly photographs of an Orange County teen killed in a car accident began spreading online, the young woman’s family has settled a lawsuit filed against the California Highway Patrol for its role in disseminating the graphic...
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