April 30– Like many other union members, Aaron Curtis traveled from Fort Wayne to stand on the lawn of the Indiana State Capitol in a rally calling for jobs to remain in Indiana. And like the majority of protesters from around the state gathered Friday afternoon, he wanted to see and hear presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talk about the issues of low wages and…
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Rick Scott’s committee and became one of the state’s five biggest property insurers wants to raise rates in Palm Beach County, and much of South Florida, up to 25 percent. Heritage Property& Casualty Insurance Co. has never had a hair ruffled from a Florida hurricane. “There is simply no justifiable basis for the rate increases except for increasing profits for…
Physician partners at CEP America are among the industry experts speaking at the Emergency Department Practice Management Association’ s Solutions Summit on May 1-4 in Las Vegas. “The U.S. health care industry is in a state of tremendous change,” says Wesley Curry, MD, FACEP, CEO of CEP America, and a conference speaker.“ Hospitals nationwide realize they must…
The National Association of Estate Planners& Councils, formed in 1962, functions with the abiding conviction that: the team approach to estate planning is essential to the creation of an estate plan, to which every consumer is entitled; and this team approach is what best serves the client. The most essential, defining characteristic of a high performance,…
Careful drafting is the first line of defense against expensive family clashes over the interpretation of a trust or will. For every published case regarding litigation surrounding a provision in a trust document or will, there are many more disputes that are privately settled out of court. To illustrate what can go wrong, I’ ve highlighted some published cases,…
Rocky Aoki was the founder of the Benihana Restaurant chain, comprising approximately 110 restaurants worldwide. The restaurant chain was controlled by Benihana of Tokyo, Inc., which Rocky controlled in its entirety. In 1998, on Rocky’ s behalf, his personal lawyer of 30 years, L1, engaged a trusts and estates lawyer, L2, to draft the governing instrument of an asset…
To most estate planners, the July 2014 conversion by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act into the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act was an under-the-radar non-event. After all, according to the Uniform Law Committee on the UVTA, the stated intention behind the UVTA was to tighten existing…
In recent years, the term“ blended gift” has increasingly been used to refer to various ways individuals can make significant charitable gifts. I first used this term at a philanthropic gift planning conference in 1995. 1. As the focal point of my presentation entitled,“ How Will The Baby Boomers Boom?
The Cypress- Fairbanks Independent School District estimates it will cost $4 million to repair campuses that were damaged in storms that poured as much as 17 inches of rain in parts of the Houston area. Roy Sprague, associate superintendent of facilities for the district estimates repairs will cost close to $4 million. The schools with the greatest damage…
Florida’s insurance commissioner has the unfettered ability to affect the cost of living in the state. The 262- person Office of Insurance Regulation touches nearly every aspect of life in Florida, from birth to death. For the last 13 years, the job has been held by Kevin McCarty, a 27- year state bureaucrat, lawyer and graduate of the University of Florida, who…
LOS ANGELES, April 29, 2016/ PRNewswire/– Gotham Bail Bonds- Gotham Bail Bonds is Southern California’s newest Bail Agency. The CEO of the company, Yousuf Nabi, was the COO of another bail bond agency prior and grew that company 222% over a one-year period, and now he and his team are building Gotham Bail Bonds from the ground up, completely digitally becoming a…
MarketResearchReports.Biz presents this most up-to-date research on“ Insurance Technology Market in Europe 2015-2019”. The report provides many reasons why the insurance sector in Europe is increasingly becoming technology-dependent for business operations and revenue growth and how the trend will intensify in the future. The report states reasons…
The lawsuit alleges that Liberty Mutual Managed Care LLC misclassified their Nurse Case Managers and allegedly failed to pay these employees overtime pay and allegedly failed to provide the Nurse Case Managers with the proper meal periods. CIVDS1602717 is currently pending in the Riverside County Superior Court for the State of California.
A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ from A- and the issuer credit rating to“ bbb+” from“ a-” of Financial American Property and Casualty Insurance Company. The outlook for the ICR was revised to negative from stable while the outlook for the FSR remains stable. This lack of scale has, in turn, been due to the company’ s inability to gain traction in the…
April 29– HARTFORD– The Hartford Financial Services Group underperformed Wall Street expectations on both profit and revenue during the first quarter of 2016, as hedge fund and real estate losses and underwriting losses on automobile insurance battered the company’s bottom line. Net income was $323 million, a 31 percent decrease from $467 million in the…
Coast Dental Fort Stewart is celebrating its grand opening with an open house on Monday, May 16, 2016, at its new location in the Exchange Furniture Mall at 112 Vilseck Road in Fort Stewart. Plus attendees will have the opportunity to meet general dentists Thomas Richards, DDS, and Josh Faulk, DMD, and tour the new dental office. Dr. Richards earned his dental degree…
BALTIMORE, April 29, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake announced today it will host a job fair at its headquarters in Baltimore on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 from 10 am until 1 pm as part of its Goodwill Industries Week celebration. Employers scheduled to attend include: Northwest Hospital, Maryland Transportation Authority, 1 st…
RIO DE JANEIRO—- Fitch Ratings has assigned a’ B+’ Insurer Financial Strength rating to Sancor Seguros S.A.. As of December 2015, Sancor Uruguay is positioned as a small company in a highly competitive market, which is dominated by the state owned insurance company, Banco de Seguros del Estado. As of December 2015, Sancor Uruguay recorded UYU65.6 million losses,…
Antares Capital announced today it is serving as administrative agent, lead arranger and bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of SambaSafety by ABRY Partners. Headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, SambaSafety provides driving and fleet safety solutions and motor vehicle records to every industry across the U.S..
