Josh Funk

March 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Neb. AP - A multimillion-dollar dispute between an Omaha-based insurance agency and the state of Florida will return to the Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday more than a decade after it began.The Nebraska company, Countrywide Insurance Agency, maintains the dispute was mishandled at trial in 2006 and that it shouldn't have to pay Florida the nearly $4.

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March 25, 2010 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Neb. AP - Deere Co. said Thursday that changes to the health care law signed into law this week will raise related costs this year by $150 million.The biggest U.S. maker of farm equipment became the second major company in as many days to say it would take a charge for fiscal 2010.Deere and Caterpillar Inc.

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April 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Neb. AP - When Peter Pan peanut butter returns to stores in July, some consumers' first thoughts will undoubtedly be about this year's salmonella outbreak and total recall of the brand."I would be hesitant" to buy Peter Pan, college student Kevin Akerson said while grocery shopping in Omaha recently.

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April 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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January 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Neb. AP - After Ivan Eicher lost his job, he and his wife Delores fell several months behind on their house payments. Facing foreclosure, they accepted an offer from a company that promised to help them keep the home where they'd lived for more than 20 years.Without realizing what they were doing, the couple ended up surrendering ownership of their home.

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May 20, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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February 24, 2010 | Daily Report Online

OMAHA, Nebraska AP - Billionaire Warren Buffett will likely use a few lines in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to welcome new investors the company acquired along with BNSF railroad. But he'll also have a busy year at the company's 80-odd subsidiaries to explain when the letter is released this weekend.

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May 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

After ConAgra Foods' board slashed the company's dividend by 34 percent as part of a restructuring plan, a few shareholders suggested the board should also feel the pain and slash its own pay by roughly one-third.Not surprisingly, the suggestion shareholder Don Hudgens made during the 2006 annual meeting, didn't fly even though former ConAgra chief executive Mike Harper supported that idea.

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July 18, 2007 | Law.com

A judge had valid reasons for sentencing a 5-foot-1 sex offender to probation, even though she cited the offender's height as part of her rationale, the Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The trial judge's sentence prompted national criticism, but the appeals court found that the "brief mention" of the defendant's stature was in reality "but a minor point."

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September 28, 2007 | Law.com

An Omaha man has sued Mattel Inc., saying the toymaker stole his copyrighted ideas for a line of planetary toys. The federal lawsuit says the Planet Heroes toys Mattel is selling through its Fisher-Price division are strikingly similar to the Planet Pals and Earth Rangers that Joseph Ottis developed over the past decade.

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