Jan 17 2009
Illegal Aliens Will Have Access to New SCHIP Expansion, Smokers to Pay For It
Yesterday the United States House of Representatives voted to increase the SCHIP program. Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? After all this is a program that insures poor children, or at least it was. Now it is just turning into a program to insure the children, even those who were already covered under their parent’s insurance. This [...]
Jan 4 2009
US: Altria Ruling Ignites Legal Moves
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing smokers in Maine to sue Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris unit for allegedly deceptive advertising of “light” cigarettes already is prompting new legal activity, including an effort to revive a multibillion-dollar case against the tobacco company that had been thrown out.