Tag: peter-gosnell
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Austalian bank boss says insurer got it wrong on heart attacks
By Peter Gosnell SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia's largest bank said its insurance business, CommInsure, had used an outdated and discredited definition of a heart attack to deny some claims from clients and he would apologize to any customers adversely affected. “I am saddened and disappointed by the handling of these cases,” Ian…
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Violent escapee from Washington state hospital recaptured, police say
A man accused of murder who escaped from a Seattle-area psychiatric hospital this week was recaptured in eastern Washington late on Friday following an extensive manhunt, state police said. Anthony Garver, 28, was one of two accused criminals who broke out of Western State Hospital, in the city of Lakewood, about 40 miles south of…
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Infant refugee at center of Australian hospital protest gets reprieve
By Jane Wardell and Peter Gosnell SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Sunday a baby girl facing repatriation to an offshore immigration detention camp would go to an onshore facility instead, easing tension that peaked in a blockade outside a hospital where she is a patient. Doctors at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane…