By Mitch Perry Florida
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Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz said Wednesday that the party’s health care insurance policy that had been cancelled more than two months ago under the previous party leadership has been reinstated. He said any employee insurance claims made over the past two months will now be covered.
What You Need To Know
Florida Democratic Party’s health insurance reinstated after policy was canceled
Party chair says all employee claims will be covered
Former chair denies reports that the policy was canceled
“All of the current and former employees that were under the policy are covered, and whatever claims they had will be covered.” Diaz told Spectrum News.“
Spite Investing and Politics in New York State By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 5:00 PM ET Feb. 03, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:00 PM EST Feb. 03, 2021
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It’s not yet clear if there’s been any wrongdoing in the wild west kind of Wall Street trading
Capital Tonight, where’s there’s money and power, there’s bound to be politics.
And politics means investigations, especially when members of the donor class, like hedge fund billionaires, start losing money.
In this case, Chung said, politics could influence who gets investigated, and which level of government does the investigating.
As of today, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators are
PUBLISHED 7:17 PM ET Feb. 03, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:17 PM EST Feb. 03, 2021
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Pressure is mounting on the state Health Department to release more information on how the COVID-19 virus swept through nursing homes during the pandemic.
On Wednesday, a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the Health Department has five days to release more information on the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes.
The Empire Center filed the lawsuit back in August after the health department kept stalling on releasing this total number of nursing home deaths.
Bill Hammond, a health policy researcher at the Empire Center who was part of this lawsuit, says they are looking for a detailed breakdown of COVID-19 related deaths by facility.