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Feb. 06–ST. JOSEPH — The jury hadn’t even taken their seats yet and John Lewis became overwhelmed with emotion as his murder trial was about to begin. As Berrien County Trial Court Judge Gordon Hosbein began to swear in the 14 jurors, Lewis wiped tears from his face. Tuesday was the first day of trial for Lewis, charged with premeditated murder in the Aug. 13, 2017, death of his wife, 55-year-old Carla Lewis. He was also charged with possession with intent to manufacture stemming from a marijuana growing operation found in his home. Sex, money and drugs can all be motives, but combined they were the motive for Lewis to “brutally execute” his wife, said Assistant Berrien County Prosecutor Jerry Vigansky, in his opening statements. Lewis, 49, is accused of shooting and killing his wife inside a small marijuana grow room in their home and then calling 911, saying two men had broken into the home and shot his wife and stole her car to get away. A grow room that would “ultimately become an execution chamber,” Vigansky said. In his opening, Vigansky detailed the evidence that would be presented in what is expected to be a two-week trial. The...

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HUNTINGTON – A trial date has been set for a woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband, who she said fell on a letter opener, before quickly attempting to receive money from his life insurance policy in 2017. Jennifer Lynn Via, 49, was charged with murder 10 days after she called 911 at about 8 p.m. Nov. 4, 2017, to report her husband, Thomas Via, had been stabbed in the back at their residence in the 900 block of 28th Street in Huntington. On the night of her husband’s death, Via told 911 the stabbing instrument had been a letter opener, but police said he had been stabbed with a 14-inch-long decorative dagger that is believed to have penetrated seven inches into his back, striking his heart and causing him to bleed to death internally. Cabell Circuit Judge Gregory Howard on Monday set the trial date for May 14. A hearing prior to trial will be held April 3 to determine whether Cabell County Prosecutor Sean “Corky” Hammers and defense attorneys Kerry Nessel and Abe Saad can introduce at trial past allegations about domestic violence between the couple. The defense has argued Via was a battered woman, but detectives previously...

The Canada Revenue Agency has announced that a man from Regina, Saskatchewan, has been fined $41,556 for tax fraud and sentenced to a seven-month jail term.

Sun Life Financial, the NBA, the Toronto Raptors, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada have joined forces to launch the Sun Life Dunk For Diabetes program in Quebec.

Toronto, ON (Feb. 4, 2019) – Opta Information Intelligence (Opta), Canada’s largest property data aggregator and leading provider of property risk intelligence and loss control services, is excited to expand their suite of innovations to the Canadian Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry with the acquisition of getClarity. getClarity is a data innovation company that offers… Read more » The post Opta Expands Innovations With The Acquisition Of getClarity appeared first on Insurance-Canada.ca.

I am periodically amazed by the progress I’ve seen – spanning more decades than I’d like to admit. For the following, I am using notes and memory for the First Gen. And would be interested in how you are seeing Insurance and Technology. First Generation Insurance carriers live and die by data and processing.  Prior… Read more » The post Insurance Technology: Through the Generations appeared first on Insurance-Canada.ca.