| USDA Announces Crop Insurance Deadline For Virginia Nursery
Virginia nursery producers should be aware that the final date for a new applicant to apply for the 2008 nursery crop insurance is May 1, 2007, according to the Raleigh Regional Office, USDA Risk Management Agency. New applications for crop year 2008 may be accepted until May 1, 2007, with coverage beginning 30 days after receipt of your signed application. If a policy is purchased after May 1st, insurance attaches 30 days after the application is filed and the premium is prorated based on the time remaining in the crop year after insurance attaches. For existing policies, coverage will automatically attach on June 1, 2007. The crop insurance year runs from June 1 through May 31. Growers may elect to insure field-grown and container grown practices under separate policies; for example, one practice may be insured under the CAT policy and the other practice may be insured under a Buy-up policy.
Rental insurance: Better to be safe ...
You walk up to the rental car counter to pick up your car, and the agent asks if you want the optional insurance through the rental company. At $20 per day, the coverage seems a little costly, and you remember hearing that your personal auto insurance provides sufficient coverage. So you pass. Yet, as you drive away from the airport you wonder what the right answer to the question really is. Of course, any good lawyer will tell you It depends. Here are the facts. If you take the rental car companys insurance, chances are you are paying to alleviate any problems should the car be damaged in an accident. The answer is conditional because you must still be operating the vehicle lawfully. Many, if not most, insurance contracts have clauses that provide that the coverage will not protect you if you are driving recklessly, or under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Vendor Notebook: Health Integrated teams with Health Plus
Health Integrated, Inc., a Tampa, Fla. -based provider of health and condition (disease) management programs, is partnering with Health Plus of New York to assist Health Plus members in managing certain chronic medical conditions through the Synergy Personal Health Management program. .
Coalition plans rally in support of universal health care bill
TRACY A coalition of local organizations in support of universal health care will be staging a rally in front of the post office today. The demonstration is intended to raise awareness for Senate Bill 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act, which would provide universal health coverage for every resident of the state, regardless of their ability to pay. Today's event is being organized by the San Joaquin Coalition for Universal Health Care, as part of the statewide "365 Day One Care Now Campaign." The goal is that each day, one community in California will host an educational/informational activity to raise awareness and offer solutions for the skyrocketing costs of health care. According to One Care Now, the bill would "create one plan and one public trust fund which would pay all health care bills and collect all the monies already being spent on health care and insurance plans." If enacted, the bill would "replace all health premiums, taxes, deductibles and co-payments now paid by employers, employees and individuals with one affordable premium." The organization states that more than 5 million Californians have no insurance at any time during the year, with an additional 2 million lacking insurance for part of the year.
Senior Center helps with Medicare
DUARTE - Free Medicare help is offered to seniors the second and fourth Friday of every month from 9 a.m. to noon at the Duarte Senior Center. A counselor with the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program provides unbiased information, counseling and assistance on Medicare and related health-care coverage. To make an appointment call (626) 357-3513. Intersection to be modernized ARCADIA - The intersection of California Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue will be updated with new left-turn signal on both the north and south approaches. The intersection will receive modifications that include replacement or installation of traffic signal poles, lights, structure and pedestrian pushbuttons. Los Angeles County will engineer and build the project, with the city and county sharing the $107,500 cost, which will be subject to federal reimbursements.
Singlepayer.com is our site of the day
The National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) and the California Nurses Association (CAN) have created a website, singlepayer.com that has all sorts of information about health care in California and what a “Medicare for all" system would be like for Californians. There's a ton of information here and on this single page you can read all sorts of news coverage on health care, read up on California and national legislation, take specific useful steps to contact your legislator, contact the press, tell your healthcare story, and do something about this important issue that will be front and center in Sacramento for the remainder of this year's legislative session. You can also watch an innovative series of webcasts that lets patients tell their own stories. This online series exposes the hidden, everyday tragedies of a healthcare system run by insurance companies who make money by denying care--not by providing it.
Multicultural Agents Launch Online Service to Give Minorities Easy ...
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 14, 2007 -- A former industry executive and a network of leading multicultural agents later this week will launch One Voice Insurance Services, an online portal designed to provide minority consumers and business owners with in-language and culturally relevant information about health and life insurance products in California. One Voice Insurance Services will host a launch reception on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 5 p.m. at City Club on Bunker Hill, located at Wells Fargo Center, 333 S. Grand Ave., Suite 5450, in Downtown Los Angeles. .
Medical Identity Theft On The Rise
Andrew Brooke's family knew something was screwy when they got a collection notice for unpaid bills for treatment of his work-related back injury, which included large prescriptions of the controlled painkiller Oxycontin. "I'm looking at this bill, and I'm looking at my 3-week-old baby that can't even hold his head up, and it's just a sense of outrage," said Andrew's father, John Brooke, of Bothell, Wash., a suburb of Seattle. .
East County senior calendar
At 30610 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Agoura Hills. 818-597-7361. Senior Recreation Program, $12 per year, allows those 50 and up to enroll in classes, activities, special events and excursions. Water aerobics: 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Archstone Apartments. A light, nonstressful exercise class for those 50 and over of all fitness levels. $45 per four-week session (eight classes). P.A.C.E. (People with Arthritis Can Exercise): 10 to 11 a.m. Thursdays. For those 50 and older with rheumatic disease and related manifestations. Sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation. Stretch & Walk: 7 to 8 a.m. Wednesdays. Geared to those 50 and older who are interested in exercising, meeting new people and socializing. Led by Dr. Michelle Labrum. Free to Senior Center members. Duplicate bridge: 11 a.m.
Hawaii Lawmakers Realize Welfare of Malpractice Victims More ...
Gov. Linda Lingle's attempt to place a cap on non-economic damages when medical malpractice awards are determined, failed. Kudos to those legislators who realize that the welfare of medical malpractice victims is important. Obviously doctors have reason to be concerned about outrageously high medical malpractice insurance premiums. Fortunately there is a way to address their concern and to protect victims. Tort reformers persist in presenting California as the poster boy for medical liability caps. Either they haven't done their research or they are purposely misleading the public. Doctors' premiums increased by 450 percent during the 13 years after medical liability caps in California were imposed and only declined after voters enacted comprehensive insurance-industry reform and rate regulation of insurance companies, known as Proposition 103.
Business people
Dr. Sangsu Baek has been hired as an assistant professor of early childhood and special education in the teacher education division. Baek is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York at Albany. He lives in Ogden. SALIENT CORP.
Thomas Seadler has been hired as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He is responsible for all client facing operations. He previously served as a senior manager in client facing at Edgenet in Nashville, Tenn., and Xelus Inc. in Fairport. Seadler lives in Fairport. SENECA PARK ZOO
T.C. Pellet has joined as marketing and corporate relations director. He is responsible for driving the marketing and corporate relations efforts at the zoo to accomplish its mission of educational and recreational programming for the zoo's public.
Med diets 'target childhood allergies'
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Kool Smiles to open children’s dental clinic
Kool Smiles, a dental clinic that caters to kids, is opening a new location at 3112 N. Main St. in Belvedere Plaza. Kool Smiles provides comprehensive general dental care to under-served young people ages 1 to 21 who are covered by Medicaid and state children's health insurance programs. Renovations to convert the existing space near Rugged Wearhouse into a pediatric dental clinic will cost about $328,750, according to permits filed with the city of Anderson's building and codes office. The Anderson clinic will be Atlanta-based Kool Smiles' second location in South Carolina. The company also has a dental office in Sumter, according to the company's Web site. .
Shush! Financial experts share trade secrets
AS I'M about to divulge a few trade secrets of financial advisers, kindly keep them strictly between us or they might not talk to me again. If it's no deal, just turn the page. Oh good, you're still there. So, you probably think that if only you saved a bit more, you'd be a lot wealthier. Advisers know otherwise. Sure, at some point you have to spend less, but instead of saving it you need to invest it. There's a difference. For a start, you have to take some risk and, yes, I know what happened to Fincorp. Since you mentioned it, Fincorp is the perfect example of the difference between saving and investing. Chasing high-yielding debentures is a misguided attempt to save. Investing is buying assets that will increase in value.
Proposed plan could reduce health care costs
Gov. Ted Strickland's proposals for reform of Ohio's Medicaid program could offer health care coverage to more than 20,000 Ohio children, including many of the almost 1,200 uninsured children in Athens County. The proposed program would extend coverage from Ohio's current Medicaid program to children whose families earn up to 300 percent of the poverty line, or less than $62,000 for a family of four, said the governor's press secretary, Keith Dailey. While it is impossible to know for certain how many Athens children would receive health care as a result of the proposals, 87 percent of Athens households make less than the $62,000 cut-off for Medicaid eligibility for a family of four, said Tracy Galway, community relations coordinator for the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services.
Nationwide named most trusted insurance company
Nationwide has been named one of the Most Trusted Companies for Privacy for the second time by the Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe.
Nationwide was named to the Top 10 list, as well as being named the top company in the insurance industry.
The Web-based research study asked respondents to name one to five companies in 23 industries listed in the study they believed to be the most trustworthy when handling their personal information.
Company names were not provided in the survey instrument to allow participants to freely select the organizations believed to be most trusted for privacy. Nationwide was also named to the list in 2004.
More information about award criteria is available at www.truste.org.
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It’s Time to Buy a Hybrid Vehicle, Suggests Edmunds.com
Considering a hybrid vehicle? Now is the time to buy, according to Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. There are four key reasons: "In the past, our research showed that the True Cost to OwnSM a hybrid vehicle was exorbitant," said Alex Rosten, Manager of Pricing and Market Analysis for Edmunds' AutoObserver.com. "However, our latest analysis indicates that, considering current hybrid price trends and rising gas prices, it is financially sound to purchase a new hybrid vehicle within the next few weeks, before the tax credits are further reduced." The following chart sets forth pricing comparisons that illustrate the advantage of buying a hybrid vehicle today versus three months ago: .
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