BellSouth Makes Case for $34 Million in Storm Fees
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By Kristi E. Swartz, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Dec. 7--BellSouth has made a "very clean" argument for recovering storm  expenses from its customers, a company attorney told state utility regulators  Wednesday.
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ATLANTA --Telecommunications firm BellSouth Corp. said Wednesday that the new terms of its tentative labor agreement will change how the company&#39;s contribution to retiree medical benefits is calculated and will boost benefit expenses by $3.3 billion.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- BellSouth Corp., the third-largest US local-telephone company, said a deal with union members will cut fourth-quarter profit by 3 cents or 4 cents a share.
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An announcement that AT&amp;T would drop its prices for its VoIP CallVantage Service, its popular residential broadband phone service, from $34.
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Insurers could face their biggest-ever hurricane damages bill following a spate of storms in the Caribbean, an industry body says.
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Insurers are braced to pay out about  $7 billion in claims for devastation caused by Hurricane  Charley, making the storm the second most costly after  Hurricane Andrew, industry and government officials said on  Monday.
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Insurance claims for damage caused in the United States this year by four major hurricanes may reach $23 billion, surpassing payments on claims for 1992&#39;s Hurricane Andrew, an insurance industry group said on Friday.
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Insurance payments to victims of  Hurricane Frances are expected to reach $4.4 billion, making it  the fourth most costly storm in U.S. history, an insurance  industry group said on Thursday.
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Hurricane Frances is expected to be  less costly for insurers than feared, though high winds and  flooding generated billions of dollars in damage in Florida and  brought the state to a virtual standstill during a three-day  holiday weekend.
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By Esker, Fritz  Hurricane season starts Friday but phone and Internet providers have been fortifying services for months in case of another major storm.
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The $5 price hike will affect the states where it acquired new customers through its buyout of BellSouth.
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Hurricane Ivan looks set to cost tour operators as they race to get customers out of harm's way, though future bookings may not suffer too much.
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The 2004 hurricane season is expected to be costly for insurers, with early estimates of $8bn (Â£4.5bn) of losses from just one of the storms that have hit the United States this year.
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BellSouth Corp. , the No. 3 U.S. telecommunications company, on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter operating earnings fell due to lower profits from its stake in Cingular Wireless and higher costs in its wireline telephone business.
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US prosecutors said Thursday Qwest Communications isn&#39;t off the hook, even though the company agreed to a $250 million civil fine for its addiction to fraudulent accounting.
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BellSouth Corp. (BLS.N) said on Wednesday its new labor contract had triggered a &#36;3.3 billion increase in its estimates of future retiree medical costs, reducing fourth-quarter earnings by 3 cents to 4 cents a share.
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Even before Ivan&#39;s impact on the Panhandle, estimates in Florida top $30-billion as the result of Charley and Frances. By JEFF HARRINGTON, Times Staff Writer.