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Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "Licensing Hospitals to Steal" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-03-02
Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "The Crash and Cash 'Game' and the Chief Perpetrators" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-02-14
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “Year in Jail for Accident Swindler”
Chicago Sun Times 1980-07-01
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “State to Suspend License of Hospital in Evanston” - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-06-06
Follow-up: "The Accident Swindlers": “Hospital Aide Ties to 2 Clinics Told” - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
"A top official of Community Hospital of Evanston had lucrative financial relationships with two medical clinics that supplied hundreds of the hospital's phony accident patients . . . "
Chicago Sun Times 1980-05-12
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers:" - "State Panel Asks Voiding of Chiropractor's License" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-11
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Panel Blasts Hospital Board'" - Gene Mustain and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-10
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Hospital in Evanston Loses Accreditation'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-08
Follow-up: "The Accident Swindlers": "Smashup Cheats- How They Get YOU'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-06
Story and Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "Thompson Bills Hit Accident Fraud" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-05
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Series Spawns a Wave of Hospital Shakeups'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-04-03
Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "State Board Orders Evanston Hospital to Hearing'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1980-03-17
V-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
"You don't have to be a lawyer to practice personal injury law. "Archie Burton, Fred Harvey and Wes McKinney know. They are former ambulance chasers who left the streets and independently created a new, lucrative occupation -- the accident 'broker.' "Years of seeing lawyers make big money from automobile accidents taught them something they could make it, too. And they are so expert at their new trade, they now teach attorneys the accident business . . . "
Chicago Sun Times 1980-02-14
III-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
"Some lawyers are always looking for the 'perfect' accident. When they find it, they're willing ot make under-the-table payments for a piece of the action. "The law firms of Sheldon Oliver Zisook and Basil C. Elias spread liberal amounts of upfront money around for the chance to represent Sun-Times and WLS-TV (Channel 7) reporters posing as accident victims . . . "
Chicago Sun TimesWLS-TV (Chicago, Channel 7) 1980-02-12