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Marylands second highest court has upheld most of a $151,000 jury award against a man sued by his neighbors for shooting two of their pet dogs.

Jeffrey Lynn Hurd of Williamsport was sued after shooting one familys dog in 2007 and another neighbors dog 2008. In 2010, a Washington County Circuit Court jury ordered him to pay the families, a decision Hurd later appealed to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.

The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports that a three-judge panel of the Court of Special Appeals issued an opinion on Jan. 24 upholding all but $6,000 of the award. The court also ruled Hurd must pay 90 percent of the cost of the appeal.

Polish leaders will debate on Monday their stance on an international copyright agreement after activists attacked government websites to protest the treaty.

Many websites, including those of the prime minister and parliament, were inaccessible Monday for the second straight day. The attacks were claimed by Anonymous, a loose network of online activists who oppose Warsaws plans to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

Dear Polish government, we will continue to disrupt and interfere with your government official websites until the 26th. Do not pass ACTA, one message on Twitter said.

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Because of most people are familiar with the phrase double indemnity the accidental death benefit rider is thought to be one that provides double the death benefit of your policy in the event of death resulting from an accident. It is true that this is how it works but there are life insurance companies that allow applicants to buy multiples of this rider…e.g. three times the face amount of the policy would be paid should they die by accident. For a small additional premium you can add the accidental death benefit rider to your life insurance policy. It does not matter whether or not you purchase term life insurance or permanent life insurance.

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Prudential Life Insurance has agreed to pay up to $20 million to beneficiaries of life insurance policies under the terms of a new settlement deal.

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Michigan recently passed a law that prevents public entities from providing health insurance for the same-sex domestic partners of employees. The ACLU is fighting this law on behalf of school teachers and city and county workers whose domestic partners will lose their health insurance coverage as a result of this law.

It has become a controversial topic. Should employees of public institutions, (such as teachers, postal workers, and other city or county workers), be allowed to have their domestic partners covered under the employee’s health insurance?

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