Description: Women may be excluded from medical insurance coverage if a mammogram is repeated for clarity, even without a finding of breast cancer. Doctor talks about the irony and hardship of this loophole.
Description: Sen. Lois Pines sponsors privacy bill preventing sharing of confidential data about a potential employee or insured. Woman tells of denial of health coverage because of erroneous medical information.
Description: James Shannon & other state attorneys general file antitrust suit against insurance companies for conspiring to restrict liability coverage to municipalities.
Description: Constant traffic near Federal Reserve Bank and South Station. Noisy cars, vans, large and small trucks. One car screeches through intersection. Next location: Central Artery - camera looks down onto white line on road surface as stream of vehicles zip through head on from top to bottom of frame. Tilt up Travelers Insurance Co. building. Storefront of Morante Insurance Agency. Two men get into taxi in middle of street. Life of America Insurance Corp. home office. New England Life headquarters, pan to Prudential tower. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. inscribed over entrance to older building near newer Hancock glass tower. Liberty Mutual entrance. Zoom into upper Prudential building, bare tree to the side.
Description: Auto insurance reform bill goes to Senate where it is faulted for rolling reconciliation provision. Rep. Frank Woodward, Sen. John Houston. Senate door.
Description: Passenger and baggage check-in, security at Logan international terminal. Signs for airlines: British Airways,Air Canada,Alitalia,AerLingus,Swissair, Lufthansa. Planes: KLM,Pan Am,British Air,Swissair.