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The article presents information about a missing gay man who was located dead in a morgue. John T. Brown, a gay man who disappeared on New Year's Day, was located two weeks ago in the morgue of the New York City hospital where he had languished five months, comatose and unidentified. He supposedly was the victim of gay-bashing. The circumstances surrounding Brown's death, which has spurred a belated homicide investigation, raise serious questions about the handling of the case by New York City Police Department's 78th Precinct and the Emergency Medical Services.

This article reports that AIDS advocacy groups are hailing an important insurance-related decision in Indiana, where the state Civil Rights Commission has ruled against a company whose insurance plan placed severe limits on AIDS-related claims. Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc. has been ordered by the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, or ICRC to revise its self-insured employee benefits plan so that it will provide employees with AIDS the same coverage it offers to employees with other illnesses.

The article reports that New York's highest court has revoked a state regulation that would have banned insurance companies from screening applicants for HIV and rejecting those who test positive. The court agreed unanimously with a lower court ruling that former Insurance Superintendent James P. Corcoran had exceeded his authority when he barred insurance companies from HIV testing in 1987. Health organizations and the governor's office both voiced dismay at the ruling. INSET: Rxer with HIV wins lawsuit..