Subject: Security Firm Is Fined $1 Million For Its Role in Wiretapping Case 
Date: Published: 12/17/90 (51 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Law -- Legal Beat:
    Security Firm Is Fined $1 Million
    For Its Role in Wiretapping Case
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    By Milo Geyelin and R. Gustav Niebuhr
    Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

    A New York private security company agreed to pay a $1
 million fine for its involvement in the wiretapping of
 employees at a western Pennsylvania oil refinery.
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    CAP ON HEALTH benefits to AIDS patients is barred, Indiana
 official rules.
    A hearing officer of the state's Civil Rights Commission
 ruled that Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc.'s health plan
 discriminates against the handicapped by sharply curtailing
 the amount of benefits paid to employees with acquired immune
 deficiency syndrome.
    The officer, Paul DePrez, also rejected the Fort Wayne,
 Ind., company's claim that the cost of providing benefits to
 AIDS patients made the restriction necessary.  Under the plan,
 AIDS patients can receive a lifetime maximum of $50,000 in
 benefits, while most other employees can receive as much as
 $1 million in benefits.
    According to gay-rights attorneys, an increasing number of
 companies have begun limiting the total benefits they will
 pay to AIDS patients.  A federal judge in Texas earlier this
 year ruled that such restrictions aren't prohibited by
 federal law on benefits.
    In the Indiana case, the hearing officer found that the
 state's law against discrimination against the handicapped is
 not pre-empted by the federal law.  He also determined that
 the Lincoln employee who brought the lawsuit, a 32-year-old
 Fort Wayne man, is a handicapped person under state law.
    Thomas Kimbrough, an attorney for Lincoln, said the
 food-service equipment company will ask the commission to
 overturn the decision.  He said the company will take the
 matter to state court if it loses before the commission.  The
 company maintains that the benefit program is governed by
 federal, not state, law, and that it isn't discriminatory.

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