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Charles Kovit, outside his Hempstead office yesterday, lost suit over chair that didn't hold his 6-foot-5 frame. A hefty man who fractured his tailbone after smashing through a seat has been told he can't sue its manufacturer because a label warned him he was too heavy to sit on it. Charles Kovit's 245-pound frame was too much for the outdoor chaise lounge he bought at a Long Island CVS store. The wooden seat snapped, sending 6-foot-5 Kovit crashing into a metal leg support and leaving him sprawled on the concrete floor. But efforts to blame the store for the collapse...

(AP) Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain by revenue, said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule. The four cited religious or moral objections to filling prescriptions for the morning-after pill and "have said they would like to maintain their right to refuse to dispense, and in Illinois that is not an option," Walgreen spokeswoman Tiffani Bruce said. A rule imposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in April requires Illinois pharmacies that sell contraceptives approved by the U.S. Food and...

How Eminent Domain Has Been Allowed To Run Amok To The Detriment Of Property Owners and Village Residents dateline: Port Chester, NY August 22, 2004 In 1999, the Village of Port Chester signed an agreement, the Land Acquisition and Disposition Agreement (LADA) with G&S Investors to develop the area at South Main St. East to the Byram River. The agreement also provided for a small area of vacant land and three buildings on North Main Street (our property) that was not contiguous to the South Main Street development. Unbeknown to us we had 30 days to file a suit in...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- CVS Corp. said Tuesday it will close 200 of its pharmacies in January after reporting a 16 percent decline in third-quarter earnings that chairman and chief executive Tom Ryan called "disappointing." Its shares tumbled more than 25 percent by midday. The nation's largest drug store chain operator also said it will shut down of one of its 10 distribution plants and one of two ProCare mail-order facilities. At least 220 layoffs will result from the plant and mail-order site closings, and about 100 of its 5,200 Rhode Island ...

Flaws drill holes in open-source repository Last modified: May 19, 2004, 1:42 PM PDT By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Flaws in two popular source code repository applications could allow attackers to access and corrupt open-source software projects, a security researcher said Wednesday. One vulnerability affects the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), an application used by many developers to store program code. The other flaw affects a newer, less widely used system known as Subversion, said Stefan Esser, the researcher who discovered the security holes. The CVS software, in particular, is run by many large open-source projects to create servers...

Planned Parenthood Demands CVS Action on Birth Control Prescriptions; Feldt to CVS CEO: Don't Let This Happen Again 3/31/2004 11:58:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Erin Libit of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 202-973-4883 or Erin.Libit@ppfa.org NEW YORK, March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt is demanding that CVS CEO Tom Ryan take action after a CVS pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for birth control medication. "On behalf of America's women, I want your personal guarantee that this will never happen again," Feldt wrote in a letter today to Ryan....

CVS Says Paying Celona Was Error Celona On $1,000 Retainer POSTED: 9:24 AM EST January 16, 2004 UPDATED: 10:36 AM EST January 16, 2004 PROVIDENCE -- A lawyer for CVS said it was an error in judgment to pay Sen. John Celona a retainer fee of $1,000 a month. Celona received the retainer while he chaired a Senate committee that regulated the health care industry, the The Providence Journal reported. Former Attorney General Jeff Pine has been hired by the pharmacy chain to conduct an internal review of the company's relationships with Celona and Sen. William Irons. Pine said...

Report: Irons Paid $70,000 As Broker For CVS Health Plan Irons Paid By Blue Cross POSTED: 7:39 AM EST January 14, 2004 UPDATED: 11:04 AM EST January 14, 2004 PROVIDENCE -- Former Senate President William Irons pocketed $70,000 from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island while brokering a CVS employee health insurance policy. That's according to federal documents obtained by The Providence Journal. The documents show that Irons was paid $28,000 in the fiscal year ending May 2002 and $42,000 in the fiscal year ending May 2001. The records were filed with the U.S. Department of Labor...

SOUTHINGTON — Two men who sued CVS Pharmacy Inc. after their mother received a botched prescription and died two years ago have settled the case for $1.8 million. Donna Marie Altieri, 51, of Southington died of a morphine overdose on June 15, 2001, when she medicated herself for chronic diarrhea with a more potent medicine mistakenly dispensed by a CVS pharmacist. Her sons, Daren and Derek Altieri, sued CVS in February, alleging the pharmacy on Main Street in Southington was negligent and reckless in giving their mother the wrong prescription. Probate court records that were recently made public disclosed the...

WORCESTER, MA - An unidentified woman was repeatedly bitten yesterday morning when she confronted an alleged shoplifter at the CVS store, 256 Lincoln St., police said. The accused shoplifter later was injured when she fell down an embankment while pursued by detectives. Police also captured a city man who accompanied her as the pair attempted to elude police. Police said Carolyn Cruz, 38, of 154 Lincoln St. was attempting to steal two packages of diapers at the Lincoln Street store. She was confronted by an unidentified woman at the store's front entrance and bit the woman on the chest and...

The Associated Press State & Local Wire April 13, 2003, Sunday, BC cycle Kokomo, IN A drug store manager who fired two shots at an armed robber has been terminated by CVS Corp. officials, who said his actions put his co-worker's life in danger. Mike DeAngelis, spokesman for Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS, said Mike Hart was fired for exercising poor judgment. "We certainly understand the difficult situation he's going through, but we investigated it and decided he exercised poor judgment in discharging a firearm at a fleeing suspect, needlessly putting people's lives at risk," DeAngelis said. Hart, 46, had been the...

Open-source defect reaches deep By Patrick Gray Special to CNET News.com January 23, 2003, 9:00 AM PT A critical vulnerability has been found in the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is used in the vast majority of open-source projects to update and maintain source code. CVS allows open-source developers to remotely update and modify the source code to projects while ensuring that collaborative efforts don’t overlap. The security hole allows attackers to take control of a CVS server and alarmingly, it may also allow anonymous attackers to fiddle with open-source code at the development level. "There is a significant secondary...