The FDA is warning hospitals that some brands of defibrillators and patient monitors will be able to record the date and time beginning tomorrow. [UPI. Bill Park, 31Dec98.]

Reports of other Y2K failures are on the rise. . [CNET News.com. Bill Park, 30Dec98.]

A software developer has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that FoxPro and Visual FoxPro database development tools are unable to process Y2K dates. [Bloomberg News/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11Dec98. Edupage.]

An insurance company is asking a federal court whether it must defend its insured software/integration companies against Y2K lawsuits. [NYT, 14Dec98. Edupage.]

Year 2000 Law Report is a weekly bulletin about legal consequences of the millennium bug. , or contact for a free trial subscription. [Bill Park, 17Sep98.]

The Year 2000 Information Center covers the legal, accounting, and insurance aspects of the Year 2000 problem. You can join a mailing list for regular updates. . [Robin Nobles , BESTWEB, 08Nov98. net-hap.]

States are committing more than $2.5B to Y2K, but many local governments, police departments, and fire departments have done nothing yet. 54% of New York's towns, 48% of its villages, and 26% of its cities have no plans for fixing the problem. 42% of California cities, counties, and special districts have no Y2K funds budgeted. [USA Today, 19Oct98. Edupage.]

One-third of US counties aren't even aware of the Y2K problem, according to the National Association of Counties. Total county Y2K spending may reach $1.7B. [IW, 14Dec98. Edupage.]

The Economist has published an excellent macro global view of Y2K in a nine-part non-technical article at . ['Doc' Don Taylor , online-news, 18Sep98. net-hap.] (Taylor highly recommends the series, but suggests that analyses by the US Council of Economic Advisers are too optimistic. The UPS strike is too small a model to illuminate industry-wide disruptions.)