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$18 to $106

The premium range that lower income single adults will pay a month for health care under a plan approved by the Massachusetts board drafting regulations for the state’s new health care law. Under the plan, people earning up to the poverty level pay no premiums. The costs increase incrementally for those earning up to three times that level, with people paying at most 4.7 percent of their income each month, according to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

$4.2 million

The federal jury award to a Sanford, Maine, woman whose 48-year-old husband was killed three years ago in a workplace accident involving a forklift truck. However, a limit on damage awards for loss of spousal companionship will reduce the amount she receives from Crown Equipment Corp. of New Bremen, Ohio, to either $1.4 million or $1.6 million. Brown alleged that the manufacturer failed to warn her husband that the lift truck he operated at Prime Tanning in Berwick had a design flaw that contributed to his death.

6

The death toll in Virginia from Tropical Depression Ernesto, which was also blamed for an estimated $33 million in damages in Virginia. Preliminary reports from localities put the damage estimates at $24 million for homes, $3 million for businesses and $5 million for public facilities, including roads and government buildings.

46

The number of owners of high-hazard dams cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for operating without emergency action plans. Emergency action plans can include recommended road closings, around-the-clock monitoring and complete evacuation of certain endangered areas. The plans must be updated every five years with input from DEP, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and local officials Those failing to comply face civil penalties of up to $10,000 plus $500 for each day of continued violations.

$3.07 million

The amount Erie Insurance Exchange has been ordered to pay a customer who alleged that her claim was mishandled. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Erie Insurance Exchange of a judge’s order in a January 2002 case. Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. sided with customer Jean Hollock who claimed the company showed “deliberate indifference and, in some instances, blatant dishonesty” to Hollock.

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