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Make no mistake: time of the essence in reporting error to insurer
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LEGAL NEWS FROM ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS (05/14/08)

·	Patient sues over HIV disclosure (Boston Herald)
·	ACLU report criticizes state detention of young suspects (MetroWest Daily News)
·	Supporters of ex-UMass student want charges reviewed (AP)

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Best offense is good defense
The client is clad in a Day-Glo orange jumpsuit, the label "Essex County" emblazoned in big black letters on the back signaling that he resides in a correction facility used to incarcerate federal defendants. He is huddling with his attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Catherine K. Byrne, in a federal courtroom in Boston. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter K. Levitt sits alone at another counsel table.

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