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Travelers Pays $10 Million to Settle Medicare Claims: Travelers Insurance Co. paid the federal government to settle a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., in 1989 alleging Medicare was billed for primary health care that Travelers should have paid for. Assistant Atty. Gen. Frank W. Hunger, head of the Justice Department’s civil division, said the settlement was part of a broader enforcement effort by the Health Care Financing Administration to enforce Medicare secondary-payer laws. Provident Insurance Co. has already paid the government $27 million and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan paid $23 million to settle similar lawsuits. Travelers did not admit liability.