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The pileup along Cascade Avenue didn’t have to do with construction, a horrible crash or some other inconvenience: These motorists waited in their vehicles for up to an hour or more on purpose. On Saturday, one by one vehicles pulled up to a large shredding truck provided by Mobile Record Shredders of Pueblo to destroy their records and fight identity theft.

The job description for rescuing Miami-Dade’s century-old public hospital network, Jackson Health System, from the brink of financial ruin five years ago did not call for a seasoned healthcare executive. Instead, as sometimes happens in a crisis, the job fell to an unorthodox candidate: Carlos Migoya, a retired banker and erstwhile auto dealer who frankly…

April 30– TRAVERSE CITY– Hagerty’s Joe Niemer expects to learn something new about cutting-edge technology every time he attends a national trade show. The vice president of digital commerce for Hagerty, he knows the big players in the auto insurance industry have extensive resources. Yet every time he is poised to learn something new from the big kids on the…

April 30– On a recent morning, Jim Stasny saw Eva Tietz sitting on a neighbor’s steps. Tietz and her family had rented the apartment above Stasny’s Food Market, which was destroyed by fire April 14. Tietz, her fiance Tim Schmugge and Tietz’s two teenage children lost all their belongings when the North End institution caught fire.

April 30– A driver involved in a single-vehicle accident at a Hilton Head Island traffic circle overnight Saturday has been charged with driving under the influence, officials say. Bob Bromage, spokesman for the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. Firefighters arriving on the scene found a vehicle overturned and the driver standing outside of the vehicle…

—Berkshire Hathaway’s first-quarter profit grew 8 percent largely because of the way it had to account for its Duracell acquisition on paper, but profits fell at its BNSF railroad and at its insurance units. During the first quarter, Berkshire traded roughly $3.8 billion worth of Procter& Gamble stock for Duracell and about $1.7 billion cash.

WASHINGTON, April 30– The House Financial Services Committee issued a report on legislation to amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to require that certain buildings and personal property be covered by flood insurance. Jeb Hensarling, R- Texas, on April 26. In 1968, Congress created the NFIP, which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management…

April 30– ERIE, Pa.– The ongoing investigation into a February furniture store fire in east Erie that investigators believe was intentionally set has gotten a financial boost from an insurance company. Erie police announced Friday that the Nationwide Property Casualty Insurance Co. is offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and…

Susana Martinez had accused of Medicaid fraud that later settled with the state for $4 million, will take over most of the Santa Fe services for Agave Health Inc., which recently announced its exit from New Mexico, according to an email sent from Agave’s chief executive officer to his employees this week. Agave is one of five Arizona providers that the Martinez…

There is good news for individuals who have both Medicare and full Medicaid insurance. The MI Health Link care option continues to be available for anyone living in Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Kalamazoo, Macomb, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Wayne or any county in the Upper Peninsula. A person must be 21 years of age or older, have both Medicare and Medicaid and not be…

This challenge is particularly acute in Wayne County where 11 percent of our residents do not have health insurance. In Westland, Wayne, Romulus and Inkster, there is only one primary care doctor for every 4,100 residents. Our efforts began when, as part of our overall restructuring to right Wayne County’s flnances, we consolidated numerous departments and…

Mike Maxwell, CEO of North Alabama Specialty Hospital, said the health care provider will successfully complete its six-month demonstration period for the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services on Sunday. The milestone means the hospital has demonstrated for CMS that it has an average patient stay of 25 days and is qualified to be reimbursed by Medicare as a…

LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2016/ PRNewswire-iReach/– Insurancecarsinsurance.com has released a new blog post presenting ten things that can make auto insurance premiums expensive. The blog post explains how to avoid a high spike in prices. Auto insurance premiums are not fixed and they can be easily modified by certain factors.

After a lengthy vendor selection process, Amalgamated Family of Companies has chosen MTS Software Solutions to migrate the current Oracle Enterprise Content Management system and implement OnBase by Hyland. “MTS is pleased to expand our existing relationship with Amalgamated,” says Earl Voorhees, Chief Operations Officer at MTS Software Solutions.

April 30– With minimal oversight and no public input, Massachusetts homeowners insurance costs have been allowed to increase at an “astounding” rate in recent years, far outpacing inflation. Those were two of many findings detailed in a 77- page report released Thursday by the Massachusetts Senate Post Audit and Oversight Committee that called for…

April 29– Three officers at the failed Sonoma Valley Bank have settled a lawsuit from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for about $5.4 million. It calls for payments from the bank’s former president and chief executive officer, Sean Cutting, as well as former CEO and director Mel Switzer and vice president and chief loan officer Brian Melland.

April 29– News stories of recent days suggest a stabbing pain in the wallet awaiting people who buy health coverage for 2017 through Obamacare exchanges. We don’t yet have Illinois figures, but it’s safe to say that citizens here should prepare for a rate jolt of teeth-rattling magnitude. All of which contrasts with President Barack Obama’s victory lap in late…

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April 29– Several fires in Beaver, including one that brought eight departments racing to the scene early Friday morning, are believed to be arson and related, according to he Raleigh County Sheriff and the West Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Office. The buildings are located on branches of 5th Street, 6th Street and Aberham Court. “I can’t say no names or anything or…