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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: Elections, Insurance, Labor Legislation, Trials, Corporate Crime
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FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads
The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients.
The...Tags: Music, Trials, Weight, Laws, Radio
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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: Music, Companies and Corporations, Elections, Countrywide Financial Corp., Insurance
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ID errors put hundreds in L.A. County jails
Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jails in recent years, with some spending weeks behind bars before authorities realized those arrested were mistaken for wanted criminals, a Times...Tags: Labor Legislation, Trials, Interior Policy, Laws, Justice System
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1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers
Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges.
Two women who...Tags: Marketing, Music, Organized Crime, Companies and Corporations, Elections
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Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
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Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico
The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...Tags: Hispanic and Latino Americans, Services and Shopping, Minority Groups, Elections, Trials
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Flying high for the Sinaloa drug cartel
John Charles Ward would take flight in the half-light before dawn, when he could race down the runway without headlights and ascend into the cloaking embrace of an overcast sky. This feature requires that JavaScript be enabled and the Flash plug-in be...Tags: Elections, Fashion Shows, Dom (music group), Trials, Richard Nixon
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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, Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Corporate Crime, Weight
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