Category: Archive – Seminars

Uninsured receive VIP treatment in health-care pact

Jul 15, 2008

Palm Beach Post–July 15, 2008 By PHIL GALEWITZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Patricia Bittiker has been able to obtain medical coverage recently through a concierge medical practice. She is standing in front of her mobile home in West Palm …

For disabled, wait for benefits hurts

Jul 15, 2008

St. Petersburg Times–July 14, 2008 By Waveney Ann Moore, Times Staff Writer When diabetes made it impossible for Shelly Burke to continue working, she applied for Social Security Disability benefits. It would take eight years before she saw a penny. …

Adoption flaws cited in NY-Florida abuse case

Jul 15, 2008

A woman was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison by a judge who cited her greed and use of fraud to adopt 11 disabled children, who authorities say were so physically and emotionally abused they can never recover.

Discount Medical Plan Organization Rule Hearing

Jul 15, 2008

The Florida Department of Financial Services, Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Hearing regarding the following Discount Medical Plan Organization Rule: 69O-203.210: Forms Incorporated by Reference Date:  Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Time:  9:30 a.m. Place:  …

Kevin McCarty: One Policy, Multiple Coverages

Jul 14, 2008

The Tampa Tribune–July 13, 2008 By KEVIN McCARTY This has been a sad few weeks for residents of our nation’s Heartland as flooding has caused the failure of numerous levees along the Mississippi River creating untold damage, destruction and loss …

Time magazine revisits Florida’s problems

Jul 14, 2008

Time magazine is tackling a familiar topic in a story reminiscent of its classic Paradise Lost article. BY LAURA ISENSEE AND REBECCA DELLAGLORIA Miami Herald–July 14, 2008 Paradise has gone missing again. Says who? Time, that’s who. Nearly three decades …