May 22– YAKIMA, Wash.– The insurance provider for Yakima Air Terminal has asked a U.S. District Court judge to rule that the company is not obligated to cover potential damages for the airport’s wrongful eviction of M.A. West Rockies Corp. more than six years ago. If the judge agrees with the insurance company, Yakima Air Terminal, which was co-owned by the city of…
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May 22– Long before Lawrence Paul “Larry” Stephens of Riverside was arrested April 30 on suspicion of running a yearslong Ponzi scheme, some of the people he’s accused of defrauding had been fighting him in civil court to get back millions of dollars they gave him to invest. One of the lawsuits, filed by a former Riverside police officer, said he and others invested…
Rooney serves on the Board of Overseers for the American College Dublin and the Board of Directors of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association. Joy Woodworth, a senior instructor of computer engineering at Florida Atlantic University, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum& Learning Center in Boynton…
May 22– PEORIA– Warren McReynolds drove 18 miles from his home just outside Peoria to Morton Terrace Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centre, entered the code to access the Alzheimer’s and dementia care wing then headed to the table where his wife of more than 45 years sat alone. “Hi, Helen,” his simple greeting was enough to catch her attention. Though she’s only 65,…
May 22– A woman who thinks her only hearing issue is not being able to decipher what’s said on television probably has experienced other auditory losses. That’s something that Anne Simon has learned in 20 years as an audiologist. She recently moved from La Grande, Ore., to Lewiston to open her own practice, Simon Audiology and Tinnitus in the Lewiston Orchards.
On Tuesday, Governor Raimondo declared ALS Awareness Day in Rhode Island. Sheldon Whitehouse, D- R.I., introduced a bill that would eliminate the five-month waiting period for ALS patients to receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits. On June 23, the ALS Association’s Rhode Island chapter will hold its 20th annual “Evening of Hope” fundraiser at…
May 22– Kyle Schwab, a courthouse reporter at The Oklahoman, has been named Best New Journalist of the Year by The Associated Press Oklahoma News Editors. Winners were: Jenni Carlson, sports columns; Jaclyn Cosgrove, feature writing, for coverage of the Costello family tragedy; Adam Wilmoth, business spot news, for his earthquake coverage; Jason Kersey, sports…
May 22– COLUMBIA, S.C.– A bar in Columbia’s Vista is being accused in a lawsuit of serving so much alcohol to a patron that he became “grossly intoxicated” and crashed his motorcycle, causing the death of a friend who was riding with him. The suit, filed by the father of Caitlin Clark, 19, who died in the crash, is against Tin Roof Acquisition Co. LLC, which runs the Tin Roof bar…
Secura Consultants’ Executive Consultant Corey Anderson will be attending the 2016 Congressional Conference hosted by NAIFA from May 24-25 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. “At Secura Consultants we advocate for financial advisers and their clients in areas of Income Protection including disability and…
The paper message taped to the glass entrance of the Department for Children and Families’ downtown Topeka service center is short. In English and Spanish, the sign tells readers the agency no longer administers the state’s Medicaid program for long-term care nor for the elderly and disabled– and it directs individuals to contact the new administrator, the…
May 21– Dacotah Insurance, a service of Dacotah Bank, was recently named the recipient of North Star Mutual Insurance Company’s Star Award. North Star Mutual Insurance Company is a Midwest property-casualty insurance company serving Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Dacotah Insurance is an independent Trusted Choice agency…
May 21– More than a typical fashion show, the 10th annual Maoli Arts Movement Wearable Art Show showcased traditional and evolving indigenous art forms, from weaving to stitching garments from silks dyed with local plants and alaea, red Hawaiian sea salt and volcanic clay. Eight Native Hawaiian and indigenous artists, designers and cultural practitioners…
Every organization relies on information- customer records, key documents, e-mail, financial systems, and other essential data- to function. Even a small nonprofit organization with low IT sophistication would be at a standstill, should access to their Raiser’s Edge donor database be lost for an extended period. According to an analysis of The Hartford’s small…
The raise sought by Crystal Run is the highest of any insurance company in New York State, most of which have applied for premium increases in the individual marketplace. They range from 6.1 percent sought by HealthNow New York and 19.4 percent by Aetna, to 89.1 percent by Crystal Run. Crystal Run declined to discuss its rate-increase requests other than to say…
May 21– Connie Kline once paid $385 a month for health insurance. The Democrat from Simi Valley who sometimes votes Republican does not know who she’ll support in California’s presidential primary on June 7. His Affordable Care Act created insurance marketplaces and expanded government-paid Medicaid insurance in moves that have covered 20 million…
May 21– Rebuilding a 104- year-old furniture company– out of a temporary space, no less– is no small feat. Paul Adams had just finished calling the owner of furniture retailer The RoomPlace to let him know that despite the frightening news that the warehouse serving as the company’s hub was on fire, everything looked to be under control. All employees were safely…
May 21– Uber’ s fight for legal legitimacy in Broward County appears to be over. Under the new county position, Uber drivers in Broward will be allowed to carry the same personal auto insurance a non- Uber driver would. Drivers will be covered under Uber’ s $1 million insurance policy when using the Uber app.
May 21– South Florida property insurance agents say they’re preparing for rate increases as state regulators approve requests to offset higher costs of water damage claims. So far this year, the state approved a 5.5 percent statewide average increase by Federated National Insurance Co., which has the sixth-largest share of the tri-county market– 54,469…
As much as the candidates in the Iowa U.S. House 1st District primary say their race is about the future, Pat Murphy and Monica Vernon spend a lot of time talking about each other’s past records. “It’s not just a label, but a representation of what you believe… fighting for the middle class, raising the minimum wage and protecting Social Security and Medicare,” Murphy…
