Jan. 29— Officials from Pullman- based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories announced Thursday that company president David E. Whitehead has been appointed to an advisory council for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Whitehead will join business leaders from nine other states on the 12th District Economic Advisory Council. In Pullman, Whitehead…
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Washington voters rejected state ballot Initiative 2124, with about 55.5% of initial ballots counted Tuesday night including votes against the initiative, an encouraging sign for those who want to preserve the state's public long-term care insurance program. The initiative, which drew 44.5% of early votes, would have made participation in the state's WA…
NEW YORK- A Minnesota man has been accused of impersonating an FBI agent to attempt freeing accused health insurance CEO killer Luigi Mangione from a Brooklyn prison, while carrying a barbecue fork and a pizza-cutter blade, court records show. Mangione, 27, is awaiting trial in a death penalty murder case on charges that he gunned down Brian Thompson, the CEO of…
Mr. Trump, writing on Truth Social, said the decision not to cut rates would harm the country. “We should have a substantially lower rate now that even this moron admits inflation is no longer a problem or threat,” Mr. Trump wrote of Mr. Powell.“ He is costing America Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year in totally unnecessary and uncalled for INTEREST EXPENSE.”.
—President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for chairman of the Federal Reserve on Friday morning, a long-awaited decision that could set up a showdown on whether the U.S. central bank preserves its independence from the White House and electoral politics. For the past year, the president has aggressively attacked Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whose…
2026 JAN 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily– Investigators discuss new findings in Investment. For more information on this research see: Whistleblowers and Financial Fraud. Journal of Financial Stability, 2026; 82. Journal of Financial Stability can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY…
2026 JAN 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for“ TURVI” by Benjamin P. Harbuck Dentons US LLP, representing Crawford& Company. The registrar information for this application is: Benjamin P. Harbuck Dentons US LLP,…
2026 JAN 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. Financial support for this research came from National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Sarah M. Lindley, Dept. of Obstetrics and…
Jack Mayer, MPH, a retired pediatrician from Middlebury. My patient, let's call him Brian Lussier, had been sick for a few days and was getting worse. They were a proud Vermont family, always paying their bills.
VERMONT— Primary care in Vermont is shaping up to be a key issue this legislative session. The heightened interest comes as the Vermont Chamber of Commerce last month reported that Vermont spends 19.6% of personal income on health care, the highest share in the nation. Brian Cina, Francis McFaun and Kevin Christie and read for the first time last year.
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ a” of Virginia Surety Seguros de México, S.A. de C.V.. VSSM is a subsidiary of Virginia Surety Company, Inc., a general underwriting entity part of The Warranty Group Holding, Inc.. VSSM started operations in Mexico in January 2017, focused on the auto insurance line of…
Rising homeowners' insurance rates prompted a group of lawmakers to introduce a bill Wednesday aimed at reducing damage from hail and wildfire. Marc Snyder, D- Colorado Springs and Senate Minority Leader Lisa Frizell, R- Castle Rock. It's been assigned to the Senate Finance Committee.
—The Federal Reserve is on track to keep interest rates steady Wednesday and defy the Trump administration's controversial efforts to reshape the independent central bank. "After cutting interest rates at each of the last three meetings, we expect the to take an extended pause," Michael Pearce, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, wrote in a Thursday…
2026 JAN 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at South Korea Daily Report– Investigators discuss new findings in Herpesvirus Diseases and Conditions- Cytomegalovirus. According to news originating from Gyeonggi Do, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ Cytomegalovirus remains latent and causes disease in immunocompromised patients.
Most people don't realize that the clock starts ticking the moment a car accident happens in New York. New York's no-fault insurance system promises quick access to medical coverage and lost wage benefits, but that promise comes with strings attached. Why New York's 30- Day No-Fault Deadline Changes Everything.
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025, with net income per diluted common share of $2.52 and non-GAAP operating income 1 per diluted common share of $2.57. Net investment income increased 17% from a year ago, to $114 million after-tax, generating 13.6 points of annualized ROE in the quarter.
A federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts, convicted a medical doctor Tuesday for health care fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the IRS, and tax evasion. "Over ten years, the defendant hid millions in income from the IRS and defrauded insurers through his medical practice," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's…
“The Hartford delivered an outstanding year, with core earnings of $3.8 billion and a core earnings ROE of 19.4 percent,” said The Hartford’ s Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift.“ Results were driven by excellent performance in Business Insurance, which once again generated robust top-line growth at highly profitable margins, a pivotal year in Personal…
When Kansas Senate Bill 244 came to the floor in February 2025, it was a noncontroversial bill about bail bonds. Kansas Republicans in the House and Senate passed the substitute bill on Wednesday through a series of maneuvers that cut their constituents out of the legislative process. In Topeka speak, the maneuver is known as a“ gut and go”— stripping a bill of its…
