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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
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Rehmann broadens Ohio footprint with Martinet Recchia merger
Rehmann, a US-based professional advisory firm, has announced business combination with Martinet Recchia, a Ohio-based family-owned CPA firm. Martinet Recchia provides tax and business consulting services to industries including construction, manufacturing and distribution, restaurant and hospitality, and professional services. Martinet Recchia, established in 1955 by Thomas and Richard Martinet, has been a family-owned business with Richard's son Keith Martinet still on board as a shareholder. Managing shareholder Joseph Recchia, who joined the firm in 1998, will also remain, along with all other shareholders and staff members, said Rehmann in a press statement. Rehmann CEO Stacie Kwaiser said: 'We're thrilled about this mutually beneficial business combination and what it means for our clients and their organisations. 'Both firms share similar cultural values and philosophies related to client service, striving to be good community partners, and supporting the areas in which our associates live and work. The added expertise and capacity on both sides will allow us to continue maximising client potential in Ohio and beyond.' Rehmann, which already operates an office in Toledo, Ohio, stated that Martinet Recchia will remain at its current location and operate under the Rehmann brand. Recchia said: 'Combining with Rehmann offers more professional development opportunities for our associates who want to advance in their careers. 'We're always looking for ways to better serve our clients, and this combination gives us increased capacity and broader services in a competitive market. It will still be our associates on the end of the phone offering the same quality service, but now we're one team serving clients in the Cleveland area.' In March 2025, Rehmann unveiled plans to combine with CPA firm Kmetz, Elwell, Graham & Associates (KEGA). Rehmann offers accounting and assurance, business solutions and outsourcing, specialised consulting, and wealth management services. The firm operates across Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, with more than 1,100 associates. "Rehmann broadens Ohio footprint with Martinet Recchia merger" was originally created and published by International Accounting Bulletin, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Health
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Montana lawmakers reject proposed ban on mRNA vaccines
Lalain Reyeg administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine and an influenza vaccine to Army veteran Gary Nasakaitis at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on Sept. 24, 2021 in Hines, Illinois. (Photo by) The Montana House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly against House Bill 371, a measure that would have banned mRNA vaccines — used primarily in COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots — and made it a misdemeanor to administer the shots. Introduced by Greg Kmetz, R-Miles City, the contentious bill revealed deep-held beliefs by some lawmakers about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine technology that became common during the global coronavirus pandemic. Currently, the Food and Drug Administration has approved mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and boosters from Moderna and Pfizer. The FDA has also approved a Moderna mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus. Kmetz said he became politically active during the pandemic, starting when then-Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, ordered non-essential businesses to temporarily close down. He said his wife lost her job in the healthcare field for not getting vaccinated, and a friend's grandson was hospitalized for one of the rare side effects attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines. 'If an individual is told a product will prevent them from getting sick, and yet the actual outcome of taking the product does not result in that effect, then the product is a scam,' Kmetz said. 'Another thing that really bothers me is all vaccine manufacturers are 100% free from all liability … We are talking about a real bad product, and people have absolutely no recourse for damage.' Rep. Brian Close, D-Bozeman, gave his own story in opposition to the bill. Close said he has an autoimmune disease, and diabetes, and if he got COVID-19, he would be at high risk for ending up on a ventilator or dying. 'Every six months I get my COVID booster so I can stand here and serve my constituents and my family,' Close said. 'There's thousands of people in Montana with compromised immune systems or who can't afford to travel out of state to get a COVID vaccine.' Rep. Melody Cunningham, a Missoula Democrat, shared her experience working in hospitals and hospice care during the pandemic and the 'tsunami of death' she witnessed before a vaccine was available to the public. She also criticized criminalizing what is a life-saving treatment, and removing individual freedom for healthcare officials and individuals to make their own informed decisions. Additional proponents to the bill claimed the COVID-19 vaccines had led to many fatalities and increases in other conditions such as cancer and myocarditis, many using personal anecdotes to illustrate their points. But, Rep. John Fitzpatrick, R-Anaconda, said he opposed the legislation on three grounds — 'history, Montana legacy, and numbers.' He said advancements in medical treatments during the last hundred years were key in increasing life expectancy and overall population health in America. He also pointed to two people from Montana who were key in helping develop vaccine technology nearly a century ago. One, Maurice Hilleman, helped develop vaccines for meningitis and pneumonia, measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B and more. Millions of lives each year are saved because of the work Hilleman, a Montana State University graduate, accomplished, Fitzpatrick said. But, Fitzpatrick's main reason to oppose the bill was rooted in hard numbers. While he acknowledged that proponents talked about side effects from the vaccine and alleged increases in fatalities or other diseases, those numbers pale in comparison to the hundreds of millions of vaccine doses administered in the U.S., he said. According to the World Health Organization, 67% of global citizens have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine. In the United States, more than 670 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, more than 95% of which were mRNA-based vaccines. 'Covid is 390 times more deadly than the vaccine,' he said. 'The purpose we come for in this building is to craft public policy for the welfare of our constituents. And we're being asked to adopt a public policy that promotes what? It promotes death. 'This is bad policy, this bill needs to be parked in the red parking lot.'. House lawmakers voted against the bill 34-66. Kmetz has another bill, House Bill 418, which would criminalize mRNA vaccine use in animals.
