U.S. health seeks remedy. (U.S. Healthcare Inc. files lawsuit against U.S. Health Corp.)

Local system battles rival to keep name

U.S. Health Corp., Central Ohio's largest health-care system, is battling a national managed-care giant to retain the most basic and probably most valuable aspect of its corporate identity - its name.

The parent company of Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals and U.S. Health HMO is appealing a federal lawsuit filed in June 1995 by similarly named U.S. Healthcare Inc.

Through that lawsuit, the Pennsylvania-based HMO won a preliminary injunction prohibiting the local health system from marketing its own product under the name U.S. Health HMO.

In addition to the appeal, U.S. Health has filed a counterclaim seeking cancellation of the rival HMO's trademark.

The 6th U.S. Circuit …