Jan. 31– GLASTONBURY– Town Manager Richard J. Johnson presented a $150.3 million budget proposal for 2014-15, an increase of 3.55 percent, during the annual town meeting Thursday. The budget includes $38.2 million for town expenditures, an increase of 2.6 percent, and $97.9 million for education, an increase of 4.2 percent. Johnson said he removed $725,000 from…
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The suit also charges that Hybrid received $300,000 for premiums on more than a dozen policies, but failed to send the money to AmTrust. During a Dec. 4 civil proceeding in Hartford Superior Court, O’Garro told Judge Carl Schuman and AmTrust’s attorney that he purchased a web domain name that closely matched that of AmTrust’s in a scheme to obtain more than…
Jan. 31– The parents of a boy who claims he was roughed up and choked by an arts teacher at Atalaya Elementary School in 2012 is suing the teacher, Santa Fe Public Schools and the school board. Roberta Johanson and Joey Sandoval filed the lawsuit in state District Court in Santa Fe on Thursday, charging that their son, who was 6 years old at the time, was subjected to “…
Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a leading provider of title insurance, technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to create a tracking stock for its portfolio company investments. The primary portfolio company investments that will be contributed to…
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2014/ PRNewswire/– It’s official– Invisalign ® is the “Best Smile Treatment” just announced by NewBeauty ® magazine, the definitive authority on all things beauty. In a highly competitive category, Invisalign was the “clear” choice of the experts, editors, and readers, in the magazine’s fourth annual Beauty Choice Awards..
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Congressman Sam Graves has introduced legislation to make it easier for dependent children of military families to remain on their parents’ TRICARE health insurance plan until the age of 26. Under current law, children must enroll in their own plan through a completely separate program. Graves’ bill, the TRICARE Family Improvement Act, would…
The esteemed Advisors are Dave Malenfant, VP, Global Supply Chain, Alcon Laboratories; Rayne Waller, VP, Global Supply Chain, Amgen; Shankar Suryanarayanan, Executive Director, Baxter; Kevin Pegels, Vice President, Supply Chain, Bayer Healthcare– Biotech; Rob Tenerowicz, VP, Supply Chain Management, Bio-Marin Pharmaceuticals; Mark Buck, Global Supply Chain and…
A builder of online businesses of more than 10 years experience, Rob Barnes served as the Head of General Insurance, Mortgages, Home Services and other product lines at United Kingdom’ s leading financial comparison website, MoneySupermarket.com, where he has worked with the founder to build the business from owner-operated through IPO to a S $1. 6 B+…
The American Hospital Association issued the following news release:. Catherine J. Barr, president of Bethesda Hospital in Saint Paul, Minn. and senior vice president for community services, including long- term acute care, home care, hospice and palliative care within the HealthEast Care System, is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Association’s Section…
The Senate today passed S. 1926, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which provides rate relief for homeowners who cannot afford the new flood insurance rate hikes that resulted from reforms enacted in 2012. Also included in the flood bill is the legislative text of a bill known as the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers…
Jan. 31– Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Vice President Sanjay Chadha stood in the hospital’s new Wellness Connection Center on Thursday afternoon and smiled broadly. “This will be a model the community will watch,” said Arthur Wingerter, president of Univera Healthcare. Housed on the sixth floor of Memorial’s Schoellkopf Building, in a newly constructed…
Jan. 31– COLUMBUS– Tom Noe, who is sitting in prison for stealing $13.7 million from the state’s insurance fund for injured workers, has never been interviewed by the state agency leading the investigation into his wrongdoing, his Toledo attorney said on Thursday. The newspaper sued the Ohio Inspector General’s office on Wednesday in an attempt to force…
Caduceus Medical Group is pleased to host two informative meetings at the spacious and beautiful life center in Yorba Linda, Orange County, CA. The focus of the events will be to allow patients and the public the chance to get information on Covered California and the Affordable Care act in general. Director of Patient Experience, Lucianna Corbitt, will answer…
The University of Virginia School of Law issued the following news release:. Elizabeth Averill, an attorney with a variety of public service and private-sector legal experience, has joined the University of Virginia School of Law to help counsel students interested in pursuing careers in public service. Averill has been appointed as one of two directors of…
FreeMedicareReport.com, a leader in analyzing Medicare supplement options, has launched a new service to help Medicare agents compare Medicare supplement options for their clients. The new service allows Medicare agents to easily customize a medigap quote engine and add it to their website in minutes. There are also thousands of Medicare agents across the…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, New York, has been assigned a patent developed by 10 co-inventors for “apparatuses, methods and systems for a compliance coordinator.” The co-inventors are Paul J. Gallagher, New York, Evan Giller, New York, Elaine Immerman, New York, Ralph Sanna, Wilton, Conn., Christopher Fee, Ossining, N.Y.,…
“The USA Retirement Funds Act offers a common-sense solution to the retirement crisis by giving the 75 million people without a retirement plan at the workplace the opportunity to earn a safe, portable, and secure pension benefit for life. USA Retirement Funds would be 21st century retirement plans, run entirely by the private sector, that drastically reduce…
Jan. 31– At least one clinician claims Oklahoma’s launch last week of an enhanced Internet portal for health services providers to file Medicaid reimbursement claims was as disastrous as the rollout of the new federally sponsored health insurance marketplace healthcare.gov. In an email to The Oklahoman this week, Cindy Majors, chief operating officer of…
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America issued the following news release: Nat Wienecke, senior vice president, federal government relations for Property Casualty Insurers Association of America issued the following statement today on S.1926 “The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014.” The Act passed the Senate this…
