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-Last night, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen spoke on the Senate floor highlighting how climate change is negatively affecting New Hampshire and the nation, and underscored the serious environmental, economic and public health consequences that are looming unless meaningful action is taken to combat the ongoing threat to New Hampshire’s way of life.

Ted Cruz today reminded Texans impacted by Hurricane Harvey who are still rebuilding their homes and businesses that they have until the end of the year to access their retirement accounts without having to pay the ten percent penalty that typically applies. Retirement account withdrawals must be made by December 31, 2018. We also saw members of Congress in…

The contingency planning is all the more striking because the Trump administration has refused to defend Obamacare in the lawsuit, effectively siding with the states that say the law is now invalid after Congress last year eliminated the individual mandate requiring almost all Americans to hold insurance. We want to make sure that people with preexisting…

Nov. 28– Caitlin McNeilage had recently graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and spent the summer doing a show in San Francisco. She was home in Bay County to visit her family for a few weeks when a certain tropical depression churning in the Gulf of Mexico became Hurricane Michael. But our house in Panama City is unlivable, so my mom is living…

Nov. 28– The city of Lenoir is checking on its insurance options in hopes of finding savings and better coverage. Just as it reviewed its health insurance coverage last year, the city is hiring a firm to review its workers’ compensation and property liability insurance, City Manager Scott Hildebran said at Tuesday’s meeting of the Committee of the Whole.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release:. Michael Claunch, senior pastor of St. Andrews Baptist Church which was host to the first summit in Panama City and attended by about 60 leaders. “I am your biggest fan because, around the world, I have seen what faith-based communities can do,” said…

New York, NY—- 11/28/2018– Business Continuity Management Planning Solutions Market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of +15.37%. The base year considered for the study is 2018 and the forecast period considered is 2018 To 2025.. In the United States, this process is known as the continuity of business planning for government agencies.

Valparaiso- based Task Force Tips makes nozzles, valves, monitors and other firefighting equipment used against the California wildfire that raged for 18 days, destroying thousands of structures and claiming at least 85 lives before being contained Sunday. “Many of the fire departments in California use our products as a standard,” Task Force Tips CEO Stewart…

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards issued the following news release:. -Planning will be a lot different than years prior following the first full year after the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, says Senior CFP Board Ambassador Jill Schlesinger, CFP (R). The good news is that for millions of Americans, the new code should make filing…

Nov. 28– Open enrollment for 2019 health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is about to enter its final two-week stretch, with new applications down both statewide and nationally. Enrollment on the federal health care exchange is off about 13 percent so far nationally, at 2.42 million, down from 2.78 million last year, according to the federal Centers for…

Pramila Jayapal, D- Washington, issued the following news release:. Today, S. 1768, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018, passed the United States House of Representatives after successfully passing the Senate in September. Representative Pramila Jayapal was the sole Democratic co-sponsor of the House version.

Willis Towers Watson has expanded its analytics and digital transformation team with the appointment of Iain Whittingham as a Senior Director in the company’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business. Based in Lime Street, London, Iain will support the continued growth of Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business.

Willis Towers Watson, a risk management, insurance brokerage and advisory company, issued the following news release:. -Willis Towers Watson and Allen& Overy launch their sixth Annual D&O Survey Report which outlines the changing risk culture affecting senior management. Willis Towers Watson, in conjunction with Allen& Overy, has today launched its sixth…

Willis Towers Watson, a risk management, insurance brokerage and advisory company, issued the following news release:. M&A deal making has been unequivocally shown to have delivered superior shareholder returns during the last decade, according to global M&A data compiled by Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor.

Nov. 28– RUPERT– Family members of two Rupert sisters who lost their home in a Tuesday fire are trying to get help for them. Rupert Fire Chief Roger Davis said the department was called to a mobile home at 201 E. Sixth St. at 8:01 p.m.. The women, Vanae Catmull-Richardson, 70, and Elizabeth “Betty” Schroeder, 71, saved two of their four dogs, but two of their “fur babies” were…

A U.S. Marshal handcuffed Adams, 58, in the Hartford courtroom after the judge denied his request to turn himself in at a later date to begin serving the sentence. Adams, whose East Lyme estate was sold for $1.8 million at a foreclosure auction last month, brought to the sentencing a deed quitclaiming his vacation home in Mashpee, Mass., on Cape Cod, to the government.

Nov. 28– By Seth Koenig, BDN Staff– November 28, 2018 2:26 pm. A $1.1- million South Portland fire truck damaged when its ladder accidentally struck a power line has not been determined to be a total loss, “despite rumors to the contrary,” the city manager said Wednesday. South Portland City Manager Scott Morelli released a statement to update the public about an…

But the humble trailers never completely disappeared– and could play a meaningful role in Paradise’s long and painful recovery from the devastation of the Camp Fire. As many as 2,000 trailers and manufactured homes will be headed to the Paradise region to provide temporary housing for Camp Fire evacuees, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said…