The Newville Borough Council on Tuesday voted to increase zoning and planning fees. A resolution adopted in 2019 charges $35 for residential and $50 for commercial zoning permits, but that doesn’ t cover additional work necessary for properties that are in a historic district, which can require coordination with the planning commission, or a flood plain, which…
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2025 MAY 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Climate Change Daily News– Current study results on Climate Change have been published. For more information on this research see: Climate Change, the Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation Through Sectoral Reallocation. Journal of Political Economy, 2025. Journal of Political Economy can be contacted…
On Christmas Day at the WaTiki indoor water park, Hans Wirt was getting winded from following his son up the stairs to the waterslides. Wirt thought the cause might have been the altitude change between his home in Deltona, Florida— 33 feet above sea level— and Rapid City, at the edge of the Black Hills. Medics stabilized Wirt before taking him to Monument Health— the…
Virginia's innovative reinsurance program for health coverage is reducing the monthly bill for each person covered by an Obamacare policy by nearly $100 a month, the State Corporation Commission reports. By doing this, the SCC projects average monthly bills this year will be $519 for each covered individual, compared with $617 if the program were not in place.
California is notorious for its burdensome regulations and difficult business climate, and its treatment of the insurance industry is no different. In an attempt to combat the auto insurance cost increases, California voters narrowly passed Proposition 103, with just 51 percent of the vote, in 1988. California is one of just six states to maintain such a“ prior…
Jefferson Health, parent company of Lehigh Valley Health Network, is part of a class action lawsuit against the Blue Cross Blue Shield and its affiliates that alleges the insurance giant conspired to violate antitrust laws and underpay health networks. The suit accuses Blue Cross Blue Shield of illegally dividing and allocating markets to its benefit and of…
HARTFORD, CT— Citing what they called an "unspeakable tragedy," health officials were joined by Sen. The warnings stem from a report produced by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute and published by the American Association for Cancer Research. Rosa DeLauro, D- 3rd District, the bill would require health insurance plans to cover…
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ a-” of FuSure Reinsurance Company Limited. In March 2025, FuSure received its long-term reinsurance license authorization from the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, expanding its business scope from existing general reinsurance business, and formally became a…
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday and the two discussed the economy but not Powell's outlook for interest rates, officials reported. The Fed said Trump initiated the meeting. The Fed's rate typically influences borrowing costs across the economy, including for mortgages, car loans and business…
OWEGO— A 30% reduction in flood insurance costs may be on the horizon for the Village of Owego following recent action taken at the Tioga County Planning Board. Attorney Anthony Paniccia, representing owner Adam Weitsman, said that the vents allow flood water to keep moving so that it doesn't adversely affect neighbors. Jardine said the state Department of…
WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the White House on Thursday for their first face-to-face meeting since he took office in January and told the central bank chief he was making a "mistake" by not lowering interest rates. Both the White House and Fed confirmed the two met at the president's invitation, renewing a…
RICHMOND- Virginia's innovative reinsurance program for health coverag e is reducing the monthly bill for each person covered by an Obamacare policy by nearly $100 a month, the State Corporation Commission reports. By doing this, the SCC projects average monthly bills this year will be $519 for each covered individual, compared with $617 if the program were…
Virginia's innovative reinsurance program for health coverag e is reducing the monthly bill for each person covered by an Obamacare policy by nearly $100 a month, the State Corporation Commission reports. By doing this, the SCC projects average monthly bills this year will be $519 for each covered individual, compared with $617 if the program were not in place.
Customers and former employees of the failed roofing company Lexington Blue say the business and its owner committed widespread insurance fraud by stealing thousands of dollars in deposits with no intention of fixing roofs. Eight homeowners and nine former employees told the Herald-Leader similar stories: Lexington Blue sales representatives…
Former drug rehab mogul Tonmoy Sharma was arrested Thursday, May 29, and charged with eight counts of insurance fraud connected to his San Clemente-based addiction empire, Sovereign Health Group. The U.S. Department of Justice says Sharma– who in the 2010 s was a regional leader in the drug and alcohol recovery industry– made $149 million worth of fraudulent…
Those rates are regulated by the state Office of the Insurance Commissioner, which must officially sign off on the increases. Part of the reason for the steep increases comes from tax credits, which helped subsidize insurance for about 300,000 state workers who use the individual insurance market, set to expire on Dec. 31, 2025, unless they are extended by…
2025 MAY 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Business Daily– Current study results on Cancer have been published. According to news reporting from Taoyuan, Taiwan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ Bibliometric analysis often overlooks study-based components such as study aims, design, and statistical methods.
2025 MAY 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on colitis. According to news originating from Flint, Michigan, by NewsRx editors, the research stated,“ Eosinophilic colitis is a rare gastrointestinal inflammation of the colon characterized by eosinophilic infiltration into the colonic wall.”.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and President Trump met for the first time in the president’ s second term and sent mixed messages over their long-running spat over interest rates. The Fed, in a statement, said the top central banker did not discuss interest rates at the White House meeting with Trump. But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said…
