Since late 1993, she also had received $296,679.05 in hospital care, the claim said.

The company has since been accumulating claims, which are now being prepared as a consolidated claim, said an industry executive familiar with the situation.

The third claim says that we have reasons to believe that the things said about these entities are true.

The claim does not say anything about a reaction vessel or even temperature measuring devices.

Emergacare claims about 50 clients but says they do not want to be identified publicly.

Police denied the claims and one senior officer said he had "no recollection" of any such case.

"A claim of dictators down through the centuries," Kirk said.

The department, the claim says, "told the claimant not to conduct her own search efforts."

The claim said nothing about a chemical reaction vessel or even temperature measuring devices.

Three years later, Phillips had settled virtually all the resulting claims for an amount said to exceed $400 million.