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June 30– BRIDGEPORT– A Main Street chiropractor became the sixth health care provider to admit his involvement in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud in which medical treatment for auto accident victims was exaggerated to obtain bigger lawsuit settlements. Jennifer Lynne; Jennifer Netter and Marc Kirshner, are the other local chiropractors who…

Most talk about the justices’ 5-4 decision revolves around the finding that a mandate to have health insurance can be viewed as a tax, but the court also clarified a provision on states’ rights to opt out of expansion of Medicaid rolls. The health care reform act required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their federal…

A federal judge in New York signed off on a $7.9 million settlement involving two law firms, including one in Virginia Beach, and investors in the WexTrust Capital Ponzi scheme. The Virginia Beach firm Poole Mahoney will pay $900,000 and the Chicago firm Much Shelist, and its insurers, will pay $7 million to the receiver managing the WexTrust assets.

June 30– SAN BENITO– School board member Oscar Medrano said Friday that he asked the school district’s attorney to investigate Board President Yliana Rodriguez’s attempt to assign a health insurance company without board approval. Interim attorney Kevin O’Hanlon said he has presented his findings to Superintendent Antonio Limon, who is expected to…

June 30– The U.S. Senate voted Friday to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program without a new mandate to insure properties protected by dams and levees. Pat Toomey, R- Pa., and Bob Casey, D- Pa., took credit. The Wyoming Valley Levee System protected more than 14,000 properties along the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County when the river crested at a record…

Chicago Social Security disability benefits lawyer Lawrence Disparti today urged Congress to take appropriate steps to save the Social Security Disability program’ s trust fund, which analysts say could be exhausted in 2016.. “We have to admit that we were startled to read recent reports that say the rapid depletion of the SSD trust fund could trigger a 21…

Florida Social Security disability benefits lawyer Lawrence Disparti said today that Congress must act to save the Social Security Disability program trust fund, which could be depleted in 2016, according to analysts. “We were surprised by a recent report that says the Social Security Disability trust fund’ s rapid depletion over the next few years could…

In a decision that gripped the country, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’ s signature health care reform law and determined the individual mandate requiring individuals to pay a penalty if they fail to carry minimum essential health insurance is within Congress’s power. CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business is a leading global…

These measures, all passed unanimously by the General Assembly, will help small businesses save money and provide employee health insurance; allow for CPR/AED training for middle school students; and require Illinois hospitals to promote breastfeeding. “We want everyone in Illinois to be healthy at birth, in school and as adults,” Governor Quinn said. “

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act, which will require most Americans to have health insurance by 2014, drew a wide range of responses from Columbia residents who have been or will be affected by the law in different ways. Under the law, low-income people who do not qualify for Medicaid could be eligible for federal…

Congressman Ruben Hinojosa Votes to Support Transportation Bill That Includes Keeping Student Loan Interest Rates Down, an I-69 Sign Designation for South Texas, and the Extension of the National Flood Insurance Program. Ruben Hinojosa, D- Texas, issued the following news release:. In Texas approximately 461,533 borrowers will benefit from what we voted on…

The former director of Community Planning and Compliance for Hamilton Township, N.J., today admitted he laundered a $5,000 alleged bribe from an insurance broker to township Mayor John Bencivengo, U.S. Robert Warney, 46, of Hamilton, pleaded guilty before U.S. On May 12, 2011, while serving as the director of Community Planning and Compliance for Hamilton…

Jeffery Bannon, age 37, of Clinton, MI, formerly of Swansea, Mass., is charged with Making a Fraudulent Insurance Claim, Larceny over $250, and Conspiracy to Commit Larceny over $250. Steven Cournoyer, 37, of North Providence, RI, is charged with Larceny over $250 and Conspiracy to Commit Larceny. Bannon is a former employee of Magna Carta Companies, also known as Public…

Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio issued the following news release:. Jasen Snelling, 48, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Jerry Smith, 50, of Brookville, Indiana, have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of income tax evasion for running an investment scheme that ensnared…

Mark R. Warner today joined colleagues in approving a compromise two-year transportation package that includes more than $2 billion in federal transportation support for highway and transit projects in Virginia. The legislation provides certainty and continued funding for projects that have had to rely on nine consecutive short-term funding…

Michael Turner, R- Ohio, has introduced legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to “repeal the individual and employer health insurance mandates.” Candice S. Miller, R- Mich., Ed Whitfield, R- Ky., Vicky Hartzler, R- Mo., Patrick J. Tiberi, R- Ohio, Bill Johnson, R- Ohio, Trent Franks, R- Ariz., W. Todd Akin, R- Mo., Louie Gohmert, R- Texas, Alan Nunnelee, R- Miss., Steven M. Palazzo, R- Miss., K….

Critics, such as Dan Evans, president and CEO of IU Health, say the exchanges will result in employees paying considerably higher health insurance premiums. Vi Simpson said because states have a variety of options related to how they implement the exchange program, it’s important now for Indiana’s legislators, consumers, insurance companies and health care…

June 30– McKenzie May got her first inkling that she’d be entering the family insurance business when she called her father, Paul, and told him how much she enjoyed typing forms at her job. And so the family line continues at ISU The May Agency, an insurance business started by Paul’s father, Charles, in 1949.. “In 1967, I came on board basically as a salesman,” Paul recalls,…

June 30– RCA/ Thomson retirees scratching heads over life insurance benefit loss. Retirees of the former RCA/ Thomson plant in Bloomington, once the largest assembly location for color televisions in the world, have received word that RCA’s successor company is dropping payment of life insurance premiums for RCA’s retired workers. Retirees from the…