Word: companionship
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...decision with national resonance, a jury in San Bernardino County Superior Court agreed. Strenuously. In the stiffest such penalty ever imposed on an HMO, the jury two weeks ago awarded Goodrich's estate almost $750,000 in compensatory damages for medical costs and $3.8 million for "loss of companionship and support." In a separate decision last Wednesday, it topped those figures off with a breathtaking $116 million in punitive damages, concluding that Aetna had acted with fraud and malice. The jury "sent a message," says Jamie Court, director of Consumers for Quality Care, a California-based watchdog group. Not just...
...lonely pups, day-care centers provide companionship and hone the all-important social skills needed to play nicely--with humans and other canines. "She loves this place," says Michelle Bouchard, a New York City theater producer who regularly brings her dog to the day-care facility at the New York Dog Spa & Hotel in Manhattan--a growing business, with services ranging from pedicures to massage. "The irony is I got the dog so that my only child wouldn't be lonely. But now the dog's lonely when Alex goes to school...
...friend on his deathbed, Love Undetectable is only partly about Sullivan's attempt to live with AIDS. What the book primarily explores is what he is learning through the experience. If there is one overarching theme in Love Undetectable, it is the pan-human need for love and companionship, independent of sexual orientation. As Sullivan creeps back from the brink of death, he implores society to recognize people for their capacity to love and to give and not for being gay or straight. His thesis is heartfelt and forthright. It provides the arguments that render Love Undetectable a rich...
...earlier this year after an appeals court upheld her reduced sentence in the death of baby Matthew Eappen, was liable for "punitive damages." A court date was set for next January. Those damages would be in consideration of Deborah and Sunil Eappen's loss, a lifetime's worth of "companionship" from Matthew ?- for which compensation could, in theory, run into millions of dollars...
From the beginning of September until the end of May, our lives are a blur of people. Nine months of constant companionship. From morning coffee to a late night shower, the college student is always surrounded. In the airtight bubble of Harvard Square, someone from section is sipping tea at the next table or a friend is in the adjoining fitting room even when you aren't on Harvard property proper. So the summer is for breaking out. Three peaceful months of respite from the tedium of continual human interaction and from an active gossip mill (one that keeps churning...