Kansas Briefs: Storm losses soar past 212 million
Wichita area bears the bulk of Friday storms losses. State Farm estimates 94 million in claims. Kansas City April hail damage projected at 120 to 150 million. April 1991 tornadoes caused about 212 million. Topeka case settles. Ginny Weathers receives about 7.89 million from American Family Mutual Insurance Co. Weathers was acquitted of arson in 1987 after a 1986 fire. Winfield sheriff candidate David Lyle Miller arrested on six weapons charges. bonded at 10,000 dollars.
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Wichita
Kansas
Cleta Smedley
State Farm Insurance
Oklahoma
State Farm
Bruce McAlister
Kansas Insurance Department
Kansas City
McAlister
Sedgwick
Butler
Sumner
Elk
Topeka
Ginny Weathers
American Family Mutual Insurance Co
Kent Bevan
Topeka Capital Journal
Pedro Irigonegaray
Ms. Weathers
Lake Sherwood
Zenith
Shawnee
Winfield
Cowley
David Lyle Miller
Miller
Jim Pringle
Gary Detwiler
Hammer tour crew wounded in drive by shooting at park
Police said three members of rap star Hammer's tour crew were wounded at Roosevelt Park after a charity softball game with Albuquerque firefighters. Brian Snead and Delaney McGill were shot in the face neck and ear. Art Grimes was grazed. All treated and released. no arrests reported.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Hammer
Roosevelt Park
Mary Molina Mescall
Brian Snead
Oakland
Calif
Delaney McGill
New York City
Art Grimes
San Jose
Mescall
Housing Scene Legal Rulings on Landlord Liability and Eviction
New York and Virgin Islands courts limit landlord liability for tenant injuries from unsafe conditions. A landlord with a general right to inspect is not liable for defects tenant must manage. reasonable repair efforts do not absolve liability in dangerous conditions. New Jersey prohibits self help evictions even amid zoning fines. proper notice and court eviction required. Key cites Festa v Waskawick, Miller v Christian, and Gibbs v Harrison.
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New York Supreme Court
Festa
U.S. Appeals Court For the
Virgin Islands
Ths
Miller
Christian
Superior Court of
New Jersey
Gibbs
Fuse box blamed for Kansas house fire during family tragedy
In Bonner Springs the stepfather of three girls killed in a house fire says the children planned a secret Father’s Day surprise. Fire marshal investigators say an old fuse box under the stairway sparked the blaze, trapping the girls Mandy Cunningham 12 Heather 11 and Tiffany 8 as their mother Debbie Sawyers and Jennifer Cunningham escaped after smoke alarms woke the household about 7 20 a m. The coroner ruled smoke inhalation and burns as the cause of death for the three sisters.
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Bonner Springs
Kan
Ray Sawyers
Don Watkins
Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office
Topeka
Watkins
Wyandotte County
Alan Hancock
Mandy Cunningham
Heather
Tiffany
Jennifer Cunningham
Debbie Sawyers
Margaret Laster
Airlines settle price fixing suit with discounts and coupons
Four major airlines American United Delta and USAir agreed to pay 44 million and issue 368.5 million in discount coupons for a class action claiming fare fixing. Travelers who bought domestic tickets from 1988 can claim coupons, with court approval pending. Trans World and Northwest settled earlier. Continental remains in suit.
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New York
American
United
Delta
Usair
P.O. Box
Philadelphia
Trans World Airlines
Northwest
Atlanta
Continental
Pan American World Airways
Midway
Airline Tariff Publishing Co
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Tim Jones
Morton
Holton
Casey's
Scranton
Boyle Street
Thiery
Kenmore H.D
Kenmore
Osage Realty
Osage City
Verna M
Ralph Bell
Verna M. Boren
Wayne Wischropp
Lyndon
Steve
R.E
Charles Beatty
Richard Jackson
Eckan
Beachner Grain, Inc
Richmond
Ayy
de Pyei
Nutrena
Ralph Ferguson
Linda Kipper
James Stinebaugh
Bowers & Sheldon
Chartered Attorneys At Law
South Main
Ottawa
America
Ed Dewel
Olathe
National Group Life Insurance Company
Chicago
Laird
EYE Institute
Dale D. Laird, M.D., P.A
Royal Neighbors
IRA
Universal Life
Jamey Andrews
California
Williamsburg
Herbert C. Hodes, M.D
Facog Board Certified
American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ransom Memorial Hospital
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