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Sept. 28– Seventeen residents of 12 apartments were displaced by a fire that erupted inside a unit at the Reserve at Ridgewood Plantation in Carolina Forest Tuesday evening. Battalion Chief Brian Van Aernem with Horry County Fire Rescue said one firefighter suffered smoke inhalation and another was afflicted by heat exhaustion, but both firefighters are…

Sept. 27– GRAND COULEE– Firefighters in northern Douglas County are asking voters to raise property taxes so they can update equipment and respond more quickly to fires. “In the past few years, out areas has been turning more from wildfire-fighting to fighting fires in the urban interface,” said Chief Dale Rinker of Douglas County Fire District 3.

Sept. 28– It was a plan so crazy it almost worked: A family defrauding an insurance company out of $2 million by faking the father’s death in Eastern Europe and having someone else’s ashes interred at a prominent Minneapolis cemetery. He also was ordered to pay back the insurance company, which paid on the claim that Igor Vorotinov had died in 2011..

Sept. 28– GRAHAM– Beginning Jan. 1, Alamance County will have a new insurance carrier, resulting in a mixed-bag of increases and decreases for county employees. Alamance County is self-insured, meaning it covers the full cost of employees’ services, but the county does use an insurance carrier. It will be $20 to visit a primary care physician and $60 to visit a…

Sept. 28– Officials of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are backing further away from last year’s proposal to require customers to use pre-approved contractors for damage repairs. “The scope of the program is being reduced from its original form,” Citizens spokesman Michael Peltier said Tuesday. Proposed last year by Citizens President and CEO Barry Gilway,…

Sept. 27– TEABERRY– Chaos erupted in Teaberry over the weekend. Kentucky State Police Trooper Matthew Mihalik was investigating a complaint on Tackett Fork in Teaberry on Saturday when he observed a vehicle matching the description of one involved in a complaint. When the vehicle failed to give a signal to turn onto Kentucky Route 979 South, Mihalik activated…

Sept. 27– Iowa State University President Steven Leath on Monday made a $15,000 donation to the ISU Foundation after news emerged he damaged one of its airplanes and cost the institution $13,691. Leath has been a pilot for more than a decade, receiving initial training in North Carolina and additional training after arriving at ISU in 2012. Iowa State owns two…

“The longer it stays in the fields, the higher the risk of field loss” caused by moldy ears, dropped ears and fallen stalks, Iowa State University Extension corn specialist Mark Licht said. Licht said the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Aug. 12 projection of a record 197- bushels-per acre Iowa corn yield will fail to materialize. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill…

Sept. 27– The Sacramento- based California Earthquake Authority, the not-for-profit provider of more than 75 percent of California’s residential earthquake insurance policies, said Tuesday that it has seen a “significant increase” in the purchase of CEA policies to date in 2016.. CEA said it now has more than 908,000 policies in force, an increase of about 29,000…

Sept. 28– MANKATO– Blue Earth County commissioners have approved a preliminary property tax levy hike of nearly 8 percent, spurred by changes to mental health care payments, health insurance costs and new hires. The proposed levy approved during a board meeting Tuesday is $32,815,184, an increase from $30,387,243 this year. The board also approved a preliminary…

WASHINGTON TERRACE, Weber County- As emergency officials continued Friday to add up the damage caused by a destructive tornado in Washington Terrace, the massive cleanup also got underway. As of Friday afternoon, 21 homes in Weber County- primarily in Washington Terrace, Riverdale and South Ogden- were determined to be “uninhabitable” because of major…

–With the rapid growth of Insurtech, Plug and Play Insurance has selected the top 23 startups to join their Innovation Platform. The official partners include Admiral Group, Aviva, Compare.com, Farmers Insurance, HDI, Maiden Re, Markel, Munich Re, Nationwide, Pronto Insurance, SOMPO Digital Lab, Talanx, The Hartford, Travelers, and USAA. “Starting a program with 23 of the…

WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 954, a bill that would exempt individuals from paying the Individual Shared Responsibility Provision under the Affordable Care Act if their CO-OP closes mid-year:. In fact, it is now the 65th such attempt by…

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 20 million more Americans have gained coverage, and the nation’s uninsured rate now stands at its lowest level ever. At the same time, we have seen the slowest growth in the price of health care in 50 years. And the remaining uninsured are disproportionately young, which is why the Administration is taking new steps to reach young…

Sept. 21– New ranking of the best and worst places for Illinois homeowners. High taxes and home prices make Chicago one of the worst cities in Illinois to be a homeowner, according to a new report. Homeowner insurance rates varied greatly, ranging from $1,179 in Bloomington to $2,354 in Marion, according to ValuePenguin.

Sept. 27– LEWISTON– A Harrison man who struck and killed a 21- year-old Paris woman on Route 117 in Turner last year was sentenced to 90 days in jail, two years of probation and a $1,200 fine in District Court Tuesday morning. Kevin T. Scribner, 28, of 378 Plains Road, had accepted a plea agreement in July on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving…

Suicide rates are a crisis in Colorado, and a poorly written plan to legitimize these tragedies raises big concerns. Throughout Colorado, we lost 1,000 kids to suicide in 2015.. USA Today reports “veteran suicide rates remain high seven years after the rate of suicides by soldiers more than doubled and the Army’s effort to reduce the tragic pace.”

MarketResearchReports.Biz has announced addition of new report“ UK Travel Insurance: Market Dynamics And Opportunities 2016” to its database.Albany, NY—- 09/27/2016– The UK travel insurance market declined by 12.3% to 625.4 m in gross written premium in 2015. The number of policies written has been falling despite rises in the number of UK residents traveling…