Kansas sues for $2.5 million in medical center project flaws
The state files a second lawsuit in Shawnee County seeking 2.5 million dollars in breach of contract damages plus 30 thousand dollars in malpractice and fees over shoddy design work on the University of Kansas Medical Center expansion. The case names Marshall and Brown Sidorowicz and four individuals, with prior bribery conviction noted. The suit cites late, inadequate drawings and professional work forcing the state to take over the project and complete it.
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Topeka
Kan
University of Kansas Medical Center
Basic Sciences
Kansas City
Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz
Norbert Sidorowicz
Edwin Korff
Robert Jarvis
Henry H. Johnson
Sidorwicz
Medical Center
Sidorowicz
Kansas Court of Appeals
Kansas Supreme Court
Shawnee County
State of Kansas
Curt Schneider
State Division of Architectural Services
Fendants
Farmers Seek Auto Insurance Rate Hike In Kansas
In Kansas Farmers Insurance Group seeks a 9.4 percent rate increase, citing a $2 million underwriting loss in 1976 and near breakeven in 1977. Mid-Century, a subsidiary with about 25,000 policyholders, requests 12.21 percent to break even, while other insurers pursue various increases amid rising claim costs. Commencement exercises at the University of Kansas were shortened by rain, with 4,000 graduates sent off amid showers.
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Lester Duncan
Farmer Insurance Group
Farmers Insurance
Kansas
Duncan
Johnson County
Midcentury
Mid-Century
Farmer Insurance
Mid-Centry
Office
The
Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Insurance Commissioner's Office
State Insurance Department
Hartford Group
Colonial Penn
Insurance Services Office
Kansas Auto Insurance Plan
Gas pricing compromise moves toward passage in Congress
Congressional staff say a deal on the natural gas pricing section could reach the president for signature months from now. Conferees meet to advance the measure lifting price controls on new gas by 1985 with interim increases near ten percent, costing consumers about nine billion dollars through 1985.
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Carter
Congressional
House-Senate
Thomas L. Ashley
Ohio
House
Senate
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
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