Obscure ‘Birthday Rule’ Costs Colorado Couple $5,000 More For Normal Hospital Birth
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By Kati Weis
WESTMINSTER, Colorado (KCNC) A little-known Colorado insurance law is making a big difference for a Westminster couple, and they’re hoping their story will alert other expecting parents. Jessica Rapp and Jake Irwin say they are having to pay $5,000 more for the birth of their son, Jack, simply because of when their birthdays fall in the calendar year.
Rapp says Jack was born last August without any complications, and the hospital stay for the birth was only two nights. But three months later, she learned those two nights would cost her family $5,000 more, due to a law called the “birthday rule.”
‘It Was A Fun Night’: Loose Wallaby In Montrose County Gives Emergency Responders, Good Samaritans A Good Laugh
Montrose County Sheriff
Montrose County Sheriff
By Kati Weis
MONTROSE COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) A wallaby on the loose was the last thing Sgt. Charles Searcy with the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office expected to respond to Thursday night, July 8. Nonetheless, he and a state patrol officer, as well as a couple of good Samaritans, and the wallaby’s owner, chased the hopping marsupial for about 45 minutes that night before he finally jumped safely back home to his proper enclosure.
A wallaby is a small animal in the kangaroo family, native to Australia.
Apartment ceiling caves in after 8-month unfixed leak, resident says
By Kati Weis
AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) A woman says she and her neighbors have been living in hazardous conditions for months at the Raft Club apartment complex in Aurora. Nicola Lucero says she’s had a leak in her ceiling for eight months, and despite multiple maintenance requests, apartment staff haven’t fixed it.
Finally this week, her ceiling caved in.
“I was like, ‘oh my god, it’s falling,’” Lucero recalled. “I thought the whole building was going to fall away because all of a sudden all the water (came down). Everything was flooded.”
Many Colorado cities and towns are seeing water prices go up amid rapid population growth, but some of the highest price hikes are now hitting the small town of Wellington.