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It’s Time to Correct Health Care Provider Abuse
In summary
Physicians and medical groups maximize their income by limiting the time spent with patients and adopting abusive billing practices.
By Tom Epstein, Special for…
California and Puerto Rico removed from Chicago travel advisory
CHICAGO - One state and territory were removed from Chicago's travel advisory - but another state and territory were added on Tuesday.California and Puerto Rico were removed from the notice, but Connecticut and Washington, DC, were added,…
325,000 homeowners in wildland fire zones won’t lose coverage – CBS San Francisco
Salesforce's Annual Tech Conference Could Provide Much-Needed Boost to SF EconomyOn Tuesday, Salesforce will launch its annual 'Dreamforce', a 3-day tech conference. Betty Yu reports that the event could provide a much needed boost to the…
SEIU Local 1000 sent misleading texts about CalPERS election
Many SEIU Local 1000 members recently received misleading texts from their union regarding the CalPERS board election. The texts, presented as survey questions, included an inaccuracy related to a board vote and presented…
Tom Girardi’s fall gives ethics lessons to lawyers
The Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020 closed courts across the country, meaning there has been no new verdict and no urgency for defendants to pay settlements. For the plaintiff's former lawyer Tom Girardi, who is now struck off the federal…
Fourth Live Update from Stimulus Control: Child Tax Credit Extension to 2025, New Payment in…
Automatic stimulus checks
The third and most recent stimulus check has been released six months ago now, and despite the pressure from several sectors for a fourth control, there seems to be little appetite right now in Washington for a…
Updated Fortuna floodplain maps could reduce local flood insurance – Times-Standard
Floodplain maps along Rohner and Hillside creeks in Fortuna have been revised and many homeowners will now have lower flood insurance premiums or may not be required to have flood insurance at all.
The Rohner and Hillside Creek multi-phase…
How fire insurance works and what the future looks like after Caldor
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif .-- The insurance landscape in California continues to evolve as devastating wildfires like Caldor and Tamarack become the rule rather than the exception.
The new prevalence of large fires only…
Aluminum wrap used to protect homes from California wildfires
RENO, Nevada - Martin Diky said he panicked when a massive wildfire started rolling down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe.The contractor had time to do some quick research and decided to wrap his mountain house with…
California County pays $ 11 million to man cleared of 1998 murder
A California county paid $ 11 million to a man who spent two decades in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of his girlfriend in 1998.
The payment settles a federal lawsuit filed by Horace Roberts accusing Riverside…