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Property-and-casualty insurance companies say they have no choice but to hike rates because they are scrambling to recover from $3.8 billion in red ink last year. Some of the current losses are the result of a six-year rate war in which most insurers slashed premiums with competitive abandon. But a greater problem is the growing number and size of personal-injury lawsuits. Says Rudolph F. Landolt, president of Chicago's Kemper Group of Insurance Companies: "You have an accident, and everyone involved gets sued. We live in litigious times." Insurance companies blame courts for being...
...features deadhead rockers and blues musicians. Doors stay open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. Passim, in the alley between the two halves of the Coop, doubles as a restaurant by day and features folk artists and acoustic guitarists by night. If you don't mind a short hike up Cambridge St. to Inman Square, you can hear live jazz at the 1360 Club...
...turned out, neither brother had any money. Police officials say that witnesses overheard the brothers planning a spur-of-the- moment robbery. An autopsy later showed traces of marijuana in Edmund's blood, leading some to wonder whether his judgment that night was impaired. It was only a short hike from the schoolyard to the park. Edmund and Jonah were both over 6 ft. tall. If they were looking for an easy mark, the 5-ft. 9-in. Van Houten, who was dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt, must have looked the part. Whatever it was that brought Edmund...
...illegally. State inspectors have closed down 50 stores, and more than 3,000 phone calls were placed to a government office that is receiving reports of price violations. A few customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some law-abiding retailers complained that public opinion was turning against them. "We worry about the tone of the price-control operation," said Carlos de la Vega, a spokesman for the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. "People blame...
Just about all of these clubs serve alcohol. The recent drinking age hike to 21 will keep those underage outside. But, because of the bill's attached grandfather clause, 20-year-olds can get in with a Massachusetts I.D. Some clubs either don't care or don't know about this state identification complexity, so try to get in even if you're not a real Bay Stater...