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California Commissioner of Corporations Keith Paul Bishop is fining 43 health care plans a total of more than $500,000 for failure to comply with a 1995 law that requires plans to notify enrollees of the right to complain to Mr. Bishop's department through a toll-free number. . . .The Illinois Industrial Commission is expected to refund at least $4 million in now-unneeded workers compensation security fund contributions to more than 700 Illinois employers, after a Cook County Circuit Court judge verbally approved the unopposed settlement earlier this month. . . .On the heels of opening its Japanese underwriting operation, Lloyd's of London is establishing a representative office in Hong Kong to expand its Asia-Pacific business. The office, headed by Paul Murphy, is expected to be up and running by the end of February. . . .Former Arizona Senate President John A. Greene, 49, has been appointed Arizona insurance director. He is the fourth Insurance Department head in five months. Insurance Director Chris Herstam resigned in August 1996, and two acting directors headed the department before Gov. Fife Symington named Mr. Greene director. . . .Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. last week officially completed its purchase of Kwasha Lipton L.L.C. Coopers & Lybrand, as earlier reported, will merge Kwasha Lipton into its Human Resource Advisory Group (BI, Jan. 20). . . .Two suits have been filed against Comair Holdings Inc. arising from the crash of a commuter plane outside Detroit (BI, Jan. 13). Both suits were filed by the family of Dexter Adams, who perished along with 28 other people when the Comair Emb 120 turboprop crashed Jan. 9. The plane's manufacturer, Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A., also was named as a defendant in one suit. . . . Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets Inc. agreed late Friday to settle a class-action sex discrimination suit for $81.5 million. The settlement, which covers about 150,000 current and former female employees in four Southeastern states, includes $63.5 million in payments to the class and $18 million in legal fees. . . . St. Paul Re, the reinsurance operation of The St. Paul Cos. Inc., last week agreed to purchase renewal rights to Constitution Reinsurance Corp.'s book of U.S. casualty facultative reinsurance. New York-based Constitution Re earlier this month reported it was exploring the possible sale or restructuring of the casualty facultative operation (BI, Jan. 20).