Before the hearings, he agreed to step down and allow Ms. Cusick's daughter, Sharon Pappas, to take over as administrator, said attorney Christopher Jones of Scranton, Ms. Pappas' attorney. Ms. Pappas, of Clarks Summit, filed a petition on July 30 seeking to remove Mr. Muskey as executor of Ms. Cusick's estate after discovering he had used Ms. Cusick's home as collateral…
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Aug. 20– Weeks before an embankment collapse shut down the CTA's Yellow Line this spring, concerns were expressed over whether nearby construction at a sewage treatment plant in Skokie was causing too much movement in the tracks, emails obtained by the Tribune show. In the interim, Yellow Line commuters, who accounted for about 2,900 trips each weekday, have been…
A new survey shows 90 percent of employers are facing increases in the premiums they pay for employee health plans, with nearly 25 percent of employers seeing rate increases in the double digits.
Alliant Insurance Services, the nation’ s largest specialty insurance brokerage firm, has announced that Benjamin Butler, Charlie King, and Andrew Stergiou have been honored in Business Insurance’ s sought-after 40 Under 40 Broker Awards. Benjamin Butler, First Vice President, Alliant Specialty Insurance Services, is a preeminent healthcare expert within…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and DENVER, Aug. 20, 2015/ PRNewswire/– SambaSafety ®, the market leader of cloud-based driver risk management solutions, today announced that the Texas Department of Public Safety has selected SambaSafety to assist in the development the state's Driver Record Monitoring Service pilot program. “We're excited by the opportunity to work…
Leading Serum is 10- year agency veteran Tom Reid, who was recently named HackerAgency Vice President of Health Care. Tom Reid, HackerAgency Vice President of Health Care, said,“ We are thrilled to open the doors to Serum by announcing that we are partnering with Affinity Health Plan to launch their new Medicare Advantage marketing program.” Reid added,“ Affinity…
Aug. 20– More than just the name may be changing at Schuylkill County's nursing home when its new owner takes over in two weeks. Several current and former employees told the county commissioners Wednesday that Investment 360 °, Lakewood, New Jersey, plans to dramatically increase family health insurance premiums, cut hours and change Rest Haven's name to…
Aug. 20– EAST CHICAGO– Retired steelworker Denis Zamirowski worked in the coke plant of Gary Works for 36 years and isn't happy the company now wants to take away his health insurance benefits. USW Local 1010 and 1011, which represent workers at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor, wanted to support the negotiating team in Pittsburgh in its discussions with the…
Aug. 20– A day after a fire gutted much of a historic Washington County treasure, the sun beamed Wednesday over and into the charred Century Inn. Much of the roof was burned away, the interior blackened, and boards covered 220- year-old window frames. But Megin Harrington, owner of the Scenery Hill property, sounded resolute that this week's fire would not be the last…
Miramontes Capital announced the opening of its new offices in Costa Mesa, central Orange County. Introducing themselves as “Architects of Your Meaningful Life”, Miramontes Capital is an independent registered investment advisor founded with a mission to always guide, lead and support clients towards achieving their meaningful life objectives.
Managers of Maryland's PPACA exchange, the Maryland Health Connection, want to take outreach a step further: Starting with the 2016 individual coverage open enrollment period, which is set to run from Nov. 1, 2015, through Jan. 31, 2016, they want to transfer many consumers who call the exchange call center directly to authorized brokers. Having call center…
Cardinal Innovations Healthcare has named Dr. Previously, Hall served as Medical Director of the North Carolina Medicaid account and Children's Health Insurance Program at ValueOptions, an independent behavioral health and wellness company headquartered in Norfolk, V.A. that serves more than 30 million people. Hall's past experience includes working as…
Hub International Limited reported that it has acquired the assets of Doctors Insurance Services of New England. Hub International Limited is committed to growing organically and through acquisitions to expand its geographic footprint and strengthen industry and product expertise. Hub International Limited is a global insurance brokerage that…
Why, then, does a windowless office in Truman Medical Center need to scan 2.9 million pages of paper medical records that started out as electronic ones? Electronic medical records at Truman Medical Center. Truman Medical Center, like thousands of other hospitals across the country, has used federal funds to transform paper medical records into digital…
“The No. 1 cause of death for black people is abortion,” he said during an interview on Fox News. First off, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that black women account for about 36 percent of the country's reported abortions, even though blacks constitute less than 13 percent of the population. But the CDC doesn't list abortion as the leading cause of…
Aug. 19– REDDING, California– Redding Rancheria will open a second facility Nov. 2 to serve non-tribal members with Medi-Cal insurance. According to Redding Rancheria's Executive Director Glen Hayward, the idea to open an additional branch came about after Partnership HealthPlan of California, a managed care program, addressed the issue of the lack of…
A man arrested in Jacksonville was sentenced to six years in prison for staging car crashes, then collecting insurance money from the fraudulent claims, the State Attorney's Office announced Monday. Guillermo de la Vega, 50, pleaded guilty in August to two counts of knowingly participating in an intentional motor vehicle crash and two counts of false…
A burned body in a van that was linked to the execution of a California woman who scammed car insurers were clues that led the FBI and a Los Angeles insurance investigator to a Jacksonville warehouse full of heroin and assault weapons. The case, all fiction, is true only in that its creator is a Jacksonville author and former fraud investigator whose novel “Swoop&…
Aug. 19– After six years of waiting, Angela Moss' family received some justice Wednesday. A federal court jury deliberated less than four hours before finding Ronald “Todd” Epps guilty of killing his longtime fiancée as part of a scheme to collect on her $100,000 life insurance policy. Epps was never charged with murder but the allegation that he killed Moss in…
