| Ex-agent accused of stealing premiums
A former Allstate insurance agent has been accused of keeping money that was to have been applied to several clients' insurance policies. According to court documents, John A. Newbury, 66, of Angola, was charged with a single count of theft, a Class D felony, after an investigation revealed that he had accepted and deposited his clients' checks without applying the funds toward their policies between September 2003 and May 2004. Fort Wayne police first began investigating Newbury when an insurance investigator with Allstate called them to report a theft. According to police, Newbury received a check from a customer for an insurance premium and instead of applying the money to the customer's account, he kept it for himself. An internal audit later revealed that Newbury had misappropriated funds from at least four of his customers, keeping $2,953.47 for himself, police said.
Unconventional medicine moves mainstream
Nine years ago Kellie Krasovec, a local acupuncturist, received a heartbreaking phone call: a neurologist had diagnosed her younger brother, Mark, with multiple sclerosis (MS).
"It was horrible, I've blocked out the exact date but I still remember where I was and hearing the news. It was horrible," Krasovec said. "And for a man in his 30s, it was difficult thing for him to swallow."
Mark had been having trouble walking and his vision was blurred. Krasovec, a longtime believer in alternative medicine practices, convinced Mark to change his diet and start getting acupuncture treatments. He works out almost daily now and takes herbs. For the past two years, Mark's been symptom free, and a few months ago, his MRI showed that of the original four brain lesions, there are only two left, and they've shrunk considerably in size.
AMERICA'S UGLY ENDING
This week, beloved movie director Bob Clark suffered death by Hector Valesquez Navi, a drunken illegal alien who crossed over the center line for a head-on crash. Clark enjoyed fame, but thousands of average Americans suffer death annually at the hands of illegal aliens. They disregard the rule of law! Migrants cross into our country unlawfully. They forge documents, work illegally, steal jobs from Americans, traffic drugs, steal cars, rob stores, fill our prisons, overwhelm our schools and inundate our hospitals without paying. A listener on my radio show last week supported my guests contention that California cannot be saved from its sinking into the morass of another Mexico City. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villiaragosa carries his La Raza and Mecha cards closer to his heart than the U.S.
Outspoken Physician Urges Americans to Learn How to Diffuse Their ...
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HealthMarkets Leases 33400 SF on W. Memorial Avenue
Mega Life and Health Insurance Co. leased 33,400 square feet at Cross Rock Office Plaza II at 3595 W. Memorial Ave. in suburban Oklahoma City from Continental Group Investments LP. Mega Life and Health Insurance, doing business as HealthMarkets Co., will move into the office space in July. Cross Rock Plaza II is a 13-year-old, 50,570-square-foot, Class B medical office building in the Northwest submarket. The two-story property is 66.2% leased with an additional 17,100 square feet available for rent. The property includes 70 surface parking spaces on 4.31 acres. Tom Fields of Price Edwards & Co. represented HealthMarkets. Medallion Management Inc. is the primary leasing company. .
Going beyond money, benefits
When 5,300 Houston janitors went on strike last fall, they were seeking a raise to $8.50 an hour, paid family health insurance and full-time work. But city of Houston employees, who'll begin contract negotiations today, haven't been as focused on pay and benefits. The Houston Organization of Public Employees, which represents 13,000 employees at City Hall, are looking for a better performance evaluation system and a chance to offer ideas on how to improve city services, according to union officials. "I think voice is more important than more money," said Damon Russell, a truck driver in the public works department and a member of the new 38-employee negotiating team. Employees want respect at work and to feel a sense of pride for doing a good job for their fellow Houstonians, said Russell, who was recently promoted and now earns $9.42 an hour.
Dexia - Update on Denizbank - Conference Call - Final
UNIDENTIFIED COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE: Okay, we will come back so we will start the second part of the afternoon as planned. Dirk Bruneel will open this session and, as I said before, Axel Miller will be joining us a little later to participate in the presentation and to the debate. So Dirk, thank you. DIRK BRUNEEL, MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD, DEXIA: Hello again, let's talk a little bit about the update on the DenizBank integration. If I can have the next slide please, we have started this process in May, that's the day of the signing. Of course, we have started to prepare some business during July/August and we have also prepared a strategy both on the Dexia side and on the DenizBank side. And then the real signing, the closing of the deal, was on October 17, that's the day we have communicated the closing of the deal.
Funding quandaries at BCRH
GEORGETOWN - With steadily rising health care costs and equally increasing health insurance premiums locally and nationwide, the availability of medical care to those who cannot afford to pay is a touchy subject with hospitals and medical centers.
Michael Patterson, CEO discussed information at Brown County Regional HealthCARE's Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday, March 28, about a practice of providing low or no cost medical treatment to the poor, known as "indigent care," and government programs aimed at reimbursing medical institutions for those services.
Patterson presented various slides outlining state and federal programs tied to Medicare and Medicaid payments, specifically the Health Care Assistance Program and the Upper Limit Payment program.
Patterson explained the HCAP program is for patients treated by the hospital who fall below the federal income poverty level.
Retirement revolution
A REVOLUTION in retirement living that's about to sweep Australia will see cashed-up, ageing baby boomers enjoy meal and maid services in rental digs akin to a holiday resort. Queensland developer Petrac will roll out 10 holiday retirement resort-style communties in prime locations along Australia's eastern seaboard over the next three years at a cost of $300 million. The first, a $30 million 135-apartment waterfront resort on 1.5ha, will open on the northern edge of the Gold Coast late next year. On its heels will be one of three resort-style developments planned for Sydney. Initially targeting middle Australia's asset-savvy 75 to 85-year-olds who currently live independently in their own homes, Petrac expects rental costs to range from $2500 to $4500 a month.
Oregon slope fire consumes hay
In other public safety news, Malheur County Undersheriff Brian Wolfe said a man who made threatening phone calls to area residents last week was arrested Friday in Kansas on a warrant issued out of Malheur County Circuit Court for 28 counts of harassment and menacing and four counts of felony coercion. .
Managing health care costs takes team effort
Health insurance may be more expensive than many employers or workers care for-but don't think that going to a single-payer universal health care system is the answer. That's the position of the Southwest Virginia Association of Health Care Underwriters (SWVAHU), the parent North American Healthcare Underwriters and other trade groups, who are circling the wagons in anticipation of a fight over universal coverage for all Americans. That could come after the 2008 presidential election, especially if a Democrat is elected. Hillary Clinton has made universal health care coverage a major campaign issue-she was once stopped in her tracks while heading up an exploratory committee on the topic while her husband was president, but will be much harder to stop if she is the president. Several brokers who work as a liaison between heath care underwriters and employers in the Blue Ridge Region say there are better ways to hold down costs than universal health care, which could be government-administered and leave many in their industry out of a job.
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