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BALTIMORE: The three-century-old house of Lloyd's got a reprieve Tuesday in a battle to save itself from insolvency. Lloyd's of London can go ahead with its $4.8 billion restructuring plan after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal judge's ruling last Friday blocking the move. U.S. District Judge Robert Payne had issued a temporary injunction ordering Lloyd's to give some 3,000 U.S. investors an extra three months to review the settlement proposal. Payne said that American investors should have their cases tried in the U.S. courts and found evidence that...
According to Harvard Director of Engineering and Utilities Harold A. Hawkes, the fire was caused by a short circuit in an electrical switch...
Hawkes said the effect of the short circuit was "a ball of fire in the contained area" of the switch, a type of blaze that "usually self-extinguishes pretty quickly...
...that Jackson National endangered her life in exposing her to the disease by not telling her husband he was infected. A judge in federal district judge disagreed, saying that, under Mississippi law, the insurance company did not have the duty to tell Deramus he was infected. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is now hearing the case. Twenty-one states have laws which require insurance companies to disclose their reason for rejecting applicants, but Mississippi is not among them. The insurer argues that it is not responsible for informing its clients of such life-threatening information. Said an attorney...
...without a billionaire's bank account, Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit as president of the World Federalist Association, an organization that promotes world peace. "We are now light years ahead of where we were in people's thinking about how the two-party system has failed them," Anderson says. "The race between Perot and Lamm only increases the legitimacy...