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A new law directing health insurance companies, agents and brokers to disclose their commissions goes into effect Monday, though there still is uncertainty about how to comply. The penalty for noncompliance could be $100 a day based on rules established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, though the federal government hasn’t explicitly said so, says Ronnell Nolan, the Baton Rou...

The roots of the National Cancer Act can be traced back to a small home in Watertown, Wisconsin, in the early 1900s. A little girl named Mary tagged along when her mother went to that home, to visit their laundress, Mrs. Belter. "My mother, on the way to visit her, said, 'Mrs. Belter has had cancer and her breasts have been removed,' and I said, 'What do you mean? Cut off?' And my mother said...

Officials on Thursday announced firearm-related charges in two separate cases credited under Operation LeGend, a federal initiative launched to solve homicides and other violent crimes in the Kansas City metro. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal authorities argue that new state law forbidding local police from enforcing federal gun laws is hampering efforts to protect the public. A blistering court b...

North Carolina public school teachers are trying to find out how they can take personal days without having money taken from their pay to hire a substitute. The new state budget ends the practice in which $50 was automatically deducted from a teacher’s paycheck when a sub was hired to cover their classes on a personal leave day. But questions exist about how the new practice, which involves g...

Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro [File: Adam Stepien/Agencja Gazeta via Reuters] Poland’s Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro has asked a Polish court to rule on whether a mechanism linking European Union funds to rule of law is compatible with the country’s constitution. Thursday’s move marks the latest development in a long-running feud between Warsaw and Brussels over Poland’s percei...

The US has labelled China's treatment of its Uighur population and Muslim minorities as genocide [File: Leah Millis/Reuters] Amid worsening relations between Beijing and Washington, President Joe Biden signed a new law on Thursday banning products made in China’s Xinjiang province because of China’s oppression of its largely Muslim Uighur minority population. Pushed by members of Congress, th...

On December 9, the new Law on Electronic Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (Law 10069) came into force. This legislation is aligned with the worldwide digitization for the management of these two types of documents and will allow to speed up procedures. The law specifies the conditions for electronic bills of exchange and promissory notes to have the same value, evidentiary effect, and e...

By Anuja Vaidya DeWine signed the Telemedicine Expansion Act, which will widen access to telehealth services in several ways, including allowing a wider variety of providers to conduct telehealth visits, such as school psychologists, optometrists, pharmacists, physician assistants, and more. Further, the law increases the types of provider sites that can submit claims to Medicaid for teleheal...

RIALTO, Calif. (KABC) -- The city of Rialto is investigating paramedics who refused to enter a care center despite staff's pleas for help with a patient who was having a medical emergency. The incident happened Nov. 17 at Rialto Post Acute Care Center. Paramedics are seen standing outside the facility's doors in video captured by a Rialto police officer's body camera. The paramedics told the ...

The Dayton area’s only remaining abortion clinic could close because of a new Ohio law, after years of legal battles and disputes with state regulators. The Women’s Med Center in Kettering, which filed new court documents last week, has faced challenges for years trying to meet changing state licensing requirements. That includes getting a waiver when it couldn’t meet state requirement to hav...