HEALTH : HMO Execs Drop Suit Against TV Show

A federal lawsuit brought by two executives of US Healthcare who alleged that reporters for the television newsmagazine “Inside Edition� had invaded their privacy has been dismissed after the parties agreed to settle. The executives, the daughter and son-in-law of company Chairman Leonard Abramson, had accused reporters for “Inside Edition� of invading their privacy as they prepared an investigative report, aired last April, which focused on the high salaries paid to some HMO executives. A spokeswoman for King World Productions, the program’s producer, said the settlement included no financial payments and that the parties had “agreed to disagree� on the facts of the case.