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The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has praised the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. It's S. 3042 and is more popularly known as the 2018 Farm Bill.
The bill passed in bipartisan manner 86-11.
Grassroots advocacy from PIA members across the country helped ensure that the harmful amendments to cut crop insurance through imposing an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) limit or placing a premium assistance cap on producers were not brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
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Moving forward into the future, the insurance industry is looking at employment problems. The baby boomers who’ve been so important to the business are leaving at a rapid rate. It's hard to find replacements. Once a good one is found they're sometimes hard to keep.
Brigette Hyacinth is an employment expert and the author of the book, The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In an article she posted on LinkedIn, Hyacinth said the manager — whether it's a business owner or just a supervisor — sets the tone for the relationship and retention of an employee.
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A huge percentage of us travel by air on business or for recreation. It's probably a good thing — before tickets are purchased and reservations at that vacation site are made — to know which airlines are the best and which airlines are the worst to use.
The flight compensation company AirHelp — for six years — has done a ranking of 72 of the 73 airlines operating on the planet. They're classified from best to worst.
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The Trump administration has refused to defend an attack on the Affordable Care Act and the issue of pre-existing conditions. The administration — via the Department of Justice — says since the individual mandate has been repealed, it agrees with 20 Republican-led states that the parts of the law affecting pre-existing conditions are nullified.
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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy — A Republican — and others in Congress are concerned about is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) not being renewed like it was for 53 days in 2010. That was really hard on a lot of businesses and real estate firms and homebuyers who needed that insurance in order to get banks to process their loans.
From September 30th of last year until now it has been extended several times.
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It's summer. Time for vacation. Remember? You know, vacation, that place where most of us go to recover from the stress of work. It's supposed to enhance job performance and our feelings of well-being. Key words: supposed to. A survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) says that just isn't the case: 64% of us say vacations don't help recovering from the effects of the job;
24% say the positive effects – lack of energy, feeling stressed – disappear immediately; and,
40% say the benefits of a vacation last just a few days past the return to work.
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In the last few weeks we've witnessed several deaths and incidents involving self-driving vehicles. The most media coverage came from the Uber Volvo in Tucson, Arizona that ran down and killed a pedestrian pushing a bicycle across the road.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating and found the vehicle's emergency braking system was disabled. The radar system saw the pedestrian six-seconds before the collision. The "self-driving system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path," the report said.
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California — Worker's Compensation Disability Rates to Rise: The California Division of Workers' Compensation said the minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will rise in 2019 ...
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