European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes sunday february 16, 1992 insurance fraud hot line pays Premium to probes Chicago apr a month old insurance fraud hot line has received More than 2,200 Calls alleging shifty activity including information about a ring of chiropractors believed to be filing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent claims. No arrests have been made but investigators Are following leads on cases around the United states thanks to the toll free hot line said John Maes a spokesman for the National insurance crime Bureau. Tho Bureau an Industry Trade association was formed last month As part of an Effort by insurers to eliminate what they contend is $17 billion a year in fraudulent and inflated claims. The hot line began receiving Calls Jan. 7 and had logged 2,252 by wednesday. Of those 10 percent to 15 percent a have led to some sort of Active investigative follow up a Maes said from Bureau Headquarters in suburban Palos Hills. The other Calls had information that was too sketchy or involved a somebody who wanted to tattle on a neighbor or be vindictive a he said. Quot we try to Weed that out As soon As we  once a legitimate Call is received it is turned Over to one of the bureaus regional offices in Chicago Atlanta or Glendora calif., near los Angeles. By the Washington Post Washington a a former receptionist for Cecil b. Jacobson testified Friday that she repeatedly saw the former Fertility doctor go to the restroom with a vial in his pocket just before insemination patients arrived. Nancy Whitten who worked for Jacobson from late 1980 to mid-1982, also told the court that she never saw a sperm donor visit Jacobson a reproductive genetics Center in Vienna a. Jacobson had told patients that he had a Large Anonymous donor program. Under questioning by assistant . Attorney David Barger written added that Jacobson a lengthy visits to the restroom would occur after 3 . And that insemination patients were scheduled a almost always in the afternoons almost always 4 or 5 ." appearing on the fourth Day of trial in . District court in Alexandria the Ohio resident was the first former employee to testify against Jacobson who has been charged with 52 counts of fraud and perjury. Whitten a testimony paralleled pretrial accusations by assistant . Attorney Randy i. Bellows who said the government s evidence showed that Jacobson had never employed a sperm donor. Bellows alleged that Jacobson fathered As Many As 75 children during his 12-year Fertility practice by using his own semen to impregnate insemination patients. Sue witnesses who testified earlier in the week said they had undergone Dan tests that indicated Jacobson is the biological father of nine of their children. James r. Tate one of Jacobson a attorneys said3 teens die at crossing As train slams into car Hutchinson Kan. A three teen age girls were killed when a train struck their car at an unmarked Railroad crossing authorities said. The car was struck Friday night at a crossing about two Miles Northeast of Hutchinson and 40 Miles Northwest of Wichita said Reno county sheriffs Deputy Bill Kellogg. A i think they pulled across the tracks in front of the train a he said. The freight train was travelling Between 40 and 45 Mph. The Ages of the girls were not available but they were believed to be 16 or 17, Kellogg said. There were no other people in the car he said. No one on the train was injured and it did not derail. I Bureau investigators Many of whom Are former Law enforcement officers then try to determine whether fraud is taking place Maes said. Cases will be turned Over to local Law enforcement agencies if fraud is found. A if something like this does get off the ground it would be an effective tool for communities to utilize a said John Hoos an Fri spokesman in los Angeles. Maes said Many Calls Are Anonymous reports of isolated instances of fraud a like reporting that someone who a supposed to be on workers compensation disability was seen chopping Down a tree with a Chain  a one Case that was particularly interesting that we re going to take a very close look at. Involves an attorney who has been in league with some chiropractors and they would be responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical claims and Legal Bills resulting from Auto accidents a he said. Maes said the alleged ring operates in a Southern state and was reported by another lawyer. Maes declined to provide details because the Case remains under investigation. A Twete dealing with an enormous problem a Maes said a but we certainly Hope that arrests will result and convictions and prosecutions will result. That a our primary purpose in running the  Early in the trial that his client used his own semen on occasion but explained that it was Only when the Anonymous donor failed to appear at Jacobson a office on time. Several witnesses have said Jacobson told them that he had a donor Pool comprising mostly of medical students and that he could find donors whose physical characteristics matched the patients husband. Legitimate sperm Banks routinely had been offering patients a donor profile that included information such As race hair color and medical history. But because his the virus that causes aids has been of increasing concern since the Early 1980s, almost All Banks now offer Only Frozen Jacobson sperm that has been quarantined for at least six months before undergoing a final aids test. The Frozen sperm is either delivered to the physicians office or picked up by the patient and taken to a clinic. Donors Are paid an average of $50, and sperm Banks sell the samples for As much As $140, according to statistics kept by National sperm  jury acquits Sheen 28 others East Liverpool Ohio a a jury acquitted actor Martin Sheen and 28 others of criminal trespassing for protesting at a hazardous waste incinerator construction site. A the verdict was one of Relief and one of Joy a Sheen said after the verdict was returned Friday. Paul Boas who represented the demonstrators said the municipal court jury a saw the facts and went by the  East Liverpool Law director Charles Payne declined comment. The defendants had been charged with Misdemeanour criminal trespassing for climbing the Fence at the waste technologies industries site in Eastern Ohio on oct. 13 and 14. Sheen and the others said they oppose the incinerators location near Homes and a school along the Ohio River. Sheen testified he Learned of the incinerator while filming a movie in Pittsburgh last year.  racing dogs die in Blaze at Kennel from wire reports Lynn mass. A a fire that Tore through a Kennel killed 87 greyhounds housed there for racing at a nearby track. A when we arrived some of the dogs were still Barking inside a District fire chief Edward f. Higgins said saturday. A we made attempts to get at them but the volume of fire was just too much to get  the Friday night fire burned through a Wood Frame building at the Fortune Kennel in Lynn a suburb North of Boston. The cause of the fire was unknown. The Kennel housed 92 greyhounds in cages lining the Walls. Five of the dogs were at the wonderland race track in Revere another City North of Boston. Kennel worker William of Donnell broke open the front door before fire officials arrived Higgins said a but the fire flashed and blew him across the  of Donnell was not  fire kills 1 Lake Jackson Texas a a fire broke out Friday at an Amoco underground storage facility killing one worker and seriously injuring another. The Accident occurred around noon in an area where ethylene and propylene Are stored near Amoco a chocolate Bayou Plant. The cause of the fire and the amount of damage it caused Are under investigation company spokesman Ray Thompson said. The fire was quickly brought under control he  found in fish Rock Springs Wyo. The catch of the Day turned into the mystery of the season when a Fisherman discovered a human thumb in a 6impound Lake Trout he landed. Blake Robinson caught the fish thursday night at flaming Gorge Reservoir in Southwest Wyoming said Sweetwater county Coroner Mike vase. A i think that a fish being caught that has a human thumb in it. Is basically less Likely than winning the California lottery a vase said Friday. The digit most Likely belongs to a person who lost a thumb in a boating Accident last summer he said. But authorities also said that More than five people drowned in the Gorge and that their bodies were never  renaming protested Philadelphia a no offence to Christopher Columbus but some people would prefer that one of Philadelphia a oldest streets not be renamed for the famed explorer. A new protest group Stop the name change contends that changing the name of Delaware Avenue to Christopher Columbus Boulevard is just another slap in the face to american indians. The Road that runs along the Delaware River was named for the Delaware indians in the late 1600s. But the City Council voted recently to change the name. New Street signs already have gone up. Members of the protest group said there must be other ways to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus voyage to the new world a ways that Are not insulting to  for Gem abandoned Beaverton Ore. A police have Given up a search for a $4,100 Diamond that a thief apparently swallowed at a jewelry store. The store called police feb. 6 after catching Robert w. Hicks trying to leave with the three Quarter Carat Diamond he attempted to switch with a fake police spokesman Mark Hyde said. A store camera showed Hicks 25, apparently swallowing the fake and the real thing said Kevin Charlson sales manager at Smith amp Evrill jewellers. The stones should have passed through Hicks intestinal system in two to four Days Hyde said. Police searched his stools and re neved the fake on feb. 9. But by thursday there was no sign of the real Diamond and police abandoned the unpleasant search. A the most logical conclusion is that in our search of his stools we missed it a Hyde said. Hicks remained in mail on a theft charge and a drug related warrant from Mississippi. Sperm donors never visited Fertility clinic sex employee says