Humana Hit With 80 Million Damages For Caitlyn Chipps
A Florida jury ordered Humana Health Insurance Co to pay Caitlyn Chipps and her parents nearly 80 million dollars after finding the company improperly ended her treatment and misled the family. The verdict awards 1 million in compensatory damages and 78.5 million in punitive damages against Humana and its Florida subsidiary.
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Humana Health Insurance Co
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Humana
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Dick Brown
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Leap Day and Y2K scares across the years
Leap year rules complicate calendars with 400 year cycles. A Tamil rebel bomber killed herself and 10 others near Sri Lanka's prime minister's office, as police report the attacker was stopped before detonation. President Chandrika Kumaratunga had escaped a prior assassination attempt.
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Jagathi Jayawardene
Sri Lanka
Dole backs Bush in NH campaign push
Elizabeth Dole endorsed George W. Bush as he criticized John McCain's tax plan while claiming his own 483 billion dollar plan would more aid families near the poverty line. Bush touted bigger cuts for a 50,000 dollar family, while McCain countered that the plan mostly benefits the rich. Dole praised Bush as a Reaganite reformer, declining VP talk and urging focus on nominating him first.
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Unseasonal Warm Spell Across U S Faces Cold Front
Across the East Coast temperatures hit record highs in the 60s while Canada kept cold air. Golfers crowded Ashbourne Country Club near Philadelphia and Myrtle Beach families enjoyed beach days as trees began to bud. Farmers in South Carolina faced drought linger effects from last year. In Owensboro, Kentucky cleanup followed a damaging tornado.
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Ashbourne Country Club
Philadelphia
Mark Yates
Yates
Myrtle Beach
S.C
South Carolina
Mike Helfert
State Natural Resources Department
Owensboro
Weather pattern shifts fuel warm spell and Kentucky storm
Unusually mild winter across the eastern and southern United States coincides with a springlike storm in Kentucky. Experts attribute the warmth and jet stream shifts to La Nina, which alters Pacific patterns. A collision of warm and cold air Monday sparked damage and injuries, with at least 18 people hurt and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged. Local forecasts appear on page 8B.
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Kentucky
North America
Dale Mohler
AccuWeather National Weather Service
Mohler
la Nisia
Pacific Ocean
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Pacific
Seaboard
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Gulf Coast
Mexico
Jim Laver
National Weather Services Climate
Prediction Center
Laver
Clinton presses Israel Syria back to talks in Shepherdstown
President Clinton returned to Shepherdstown West Virginia to urge progress in peace talks between Israel and Syria. Barak and al Sharaa appointed technical aides to push all outstanding issues, with Syria seeking first withdrawal from the Golan Heights and Israel seeking security guarantees and normalization steps.
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W.va
Clinton
College Town
Ehud Barak
Farouk al Sharaa
Barak
al Sharaa
Rubin
Middle East
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Israel
Golan Heights
Golan
Lebanon
Wye
Bening puts acting on hold for fourth child
Annette Bening says she will take at least 14 years off from acting. The American Beauty star, pregnant with her fourth child, reports feeling exhilarated and liberated in More magazine. She plans stage work after American Beauty and film What Planet Are You From? still due this spring.
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Bening
Annette Bening
More Magazine
Warren Beatty
Los Angeles
Compiled by Phil Wilke from J-W Wire Reports
A concise report compiled by Phil Wilke from J-W Wire Reports. The item notes a set of brief updates and factual statements gathered from wire service dispatches, presented in a compact newspaper card style. It mentions no specific individuals beyond the compiler and retains brief, non-dramatic wording.
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J-W Wire
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