Insurers Gird for Disaster-Related Fraud
![[Go]](/web/20010927190837im_/http://interactive.wsj.com/media/Marketplace-is.gif) Would anyone try to take advantage of
the World Trade Center disaster to obtain illicitly an insurance windfall?
The insurance industry thinks so.
Questions in Law Place Suits on Hold
Mass disaster lawyers accustomed to
suing first and asking questions later are showing unprecedented restraint
in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.
Microsoft Bolsters Antitrust Team
Microsoft added a former federal
prosecutor to its legal team as it prepares to return to court Friday in
the government antitrust case.
Firms Press for Antiterrorism Fund
Insurance companies are pressing
Congress to consider a pool for terrorism coverage.
SBC Pays $2.4 Million Penalty
SBC Communications has paid the U.S.
Treasury $2.4 million for failing to meet performance standards imposed as
a condition of its 1999 merger with Ameritech. To date, it has paid a total
of $44.7 million in penalties.
Encryption Can't Be Limited, Experts Say
There is bad news in store for lawmakers thinking about changing the
nation's laws to somehow limit encryption, an idea that has been mentioned
in Washington since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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