Sep. 27– Members of several industries convened Thursday afternoon for a discussion about broadband connectivity and its impact on telemedicine, particularly in rural Wisconsin. Tony Evers proposed a high-speed internet goal of 25 megabits per second download and 3 MB per second upload for all Wisconsin homes and businesses by 2025. “The reality is there is…
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Don Beyer, D- Virginia, issued the following news release:. Morgan Griffith, Don Beyer, Ben Cline, Elaine Luria, Denver Riggleman, and Abigail Spanberger today secured Virginia’s inclusion in a pilot program by AgriLogic Consulting, a private company developing a Federal Yield-Based Industrial Hemp Crop Insurance Program on behalf of the U.S. Department of…
Ron DeSantis announced Thursday major relief funding for first responders in Mexico Beach, nearly a year after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the small waterfront town. Debris costs were more than $60 million in Mexico Beach, where the annual budget was $3.5 million dollars. Mexico Beach and surrounding affected areas are continuing to recover as…
OneAmerica Financial Partners, a provider of insurance and financial services, issued the following news release:. When it comes to planning for retirement, too many people-and financial professionals-are stuck looking backward, said Scott Hall, regional sales director at OneAmerica (R). In a recent’ Ditch the Rear-View Mirror’ presentation at NAIFA…
One In Six Seniors Working Well Past Age 65, Survey Finds
A new study finds that more and more seniors are delaying retirement to work longer. The labor force participation rate for the 65-74 age group alone has increased by nine percentage points, from 18% to 27%, in the past 20 years. For the 75+ group, the labor force participation rate nearly doubled over the same time period.
Tomaz Malinowski, D- New Jersey, issued the following news release:. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio introduced the companion measure in the Senate. The bill has been endorsed by the International Association of Firefighters, the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Association of Police Organizations, the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement…
—The Trump administration’s reluctance to send a whistleblower complaint to Congress is part of a larger pattern of resisting lawmakers’ requests for witnesses, documents and other information. Executive privilege is the president’s power to keep information from the courts, Congress and the public to protect the confidentiality of the Oval Office…
Raul Ruiz, D- California, issued the following news release:. Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. and Representative Raul Ruiz, M.D. introduced two bills to address health disparities in Native American communities. These bills will help close the gap by increasing access to health care and providing dedicated resources to improve…
Deb Fischer, R- Nebraska, issued the following news release:. U.S. Senator Deb Fischer, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, released the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that producers participating in federal crop insurance who had a payable prevented planting indemnity related to flooding in 2019 will…
Bill Cassidy, R- Louisiana, issued the following news release:. U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. and Maggie Hassan, announced today their Fair and Accurate Medicaid Pricing Act passed the Senate and is now headed to the president’s desk. This legislation was included in the continuing resolution budget package passed by the Senate today.
Tim Kaine, D- Virginia, issued the following news release:. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, along with U.S. Reps. Morgan Griffith, Don Beyer, Ben Cline, Elaine Luria, Denver Riggleman, and Abigail Spanberger today secured Virginia’s inclusion in a pilot program by AgriLogic Consulting, a private company developing a Federal Yield-Based Industrial Hemp Crop Insurance…
National Insurance Crime Bureau: Warning – Damaged Vehicles From Recent Storms May Appear for Resale
The National Insurance Crime Bureau issued the following news release:. Hurricane Dorian and Tropical Storm Imelda have flooded vast swaths of the East Coast and Texas and as the water recedes, thousands of damaged and flooded vehicles are emerging presenting the potential for fraudsters to prey on innocent used car buyers. To that end, the National Insurance…
Risks, a peer-reviewed open access journal for research and studies on insurance and financial risk management, published 28 research articles on the following topics in its September 2019 edition:. *De Finetti’s Control Problem with Parisian Ruin for Spectrally Negative Levy Processes. *Drivers of Old-Age Dependence and Long-Term Care Usage in…
Insure.com, a provider of information on life insurance, home insurance, health insurance and auto insurance, issued the following news release:. Insure.com, a comprehensive resource for insurance information, today released a health trends survey ahead of the 2020 national election showing support for a public option in health insurance.
Maggie Hassan, D- New Hampshire, issued the following news release:. The bipartisan Fair and Accurate Medicaid Pricing Act, led by Senators Maggie Hassan and Bill Cassidy, to close a loophole in the Medicaid rebate program that results in big pharmaceutical companies overcharging taxpayers was included in the continuing resolution budget package passed by…
Mark Warner, D- Virginia, issued the following news release:. Morgan Griffith, Don Beyer, Ben Cline, Elaine Luria, Denver Riggleman, and Abigail Spanberger today secured Virginia’s inclusion in a pilot program by AgriLogic Consulting, a private company developing a Federal Yield-Based Industrial Hemp Crop Insurance Program on behalf of the U.S. Department of…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- California, issued the following remarks:. But, as she mentioned, we have this tribe of women and they are a tribe, increased in the Congress. I think you know that there are a record number of women now in the Congress, 106 women.
The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents issued the following news release:. The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents is pleased that today the Senate joined the House in including an extension of the National Flood Insurance Program in a federal funding continuing resolution that will fund the NFIP and other federal…
New health insurance data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed the percent of Kentucky children under 19 with health coverage remained unchanged from 2017 to 2018, at 96.2 percent. This compares with 93.6 percent in 2013- the year prior to full implementation of the expansion of Kentucky’s Medicaid program. The new data also shows that Kentucky’s…
