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One Health Plan's Experience With a Part D Audit
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Dec 26, 2008 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- STJO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Aetna, a diversified healthcare benefits company, and BayCare Health System, a community-based healthcare system, have reached agreement on a new multi-year contract that ensures continuation of their long-term relationship in the Tampa Bay area. The new contract takes effect from January 1, 2009.
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| //26-12-2008 |
New research from insurance company AAMI.
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| //26-12-2008 |
After conducting the necessary clarifications, Swiss Life has ascertained that it holds no direct investments in products managed by Madoff Investment Securities, but is exposed to an amount of roughly CHF 90 million via Fund of Funds offered by providers such as RMF, UBP and Reichmuth. This corresponds to less than 0.1% of Swiss Life's assets under management.
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| //26-12-2008 |
According to initial estimates from the forthcoming Swiss Re sigma study on catastrophes, more than 238 000 people lost their lives to natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2008 ¨C the fourth largest number of deaths since 1970. While the total cost to society was USD 225 billion, USD 50 billion was covered by property insurance, making 2008 the second costliest year ever in terms of insured losses.
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| //26-12-2008 |
Swiss Re announced today that it has entered into a USD 1.5 billion long term Letter of Credit (LoC) facility with JP Morgan.
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| //26-12-2008 |
Scottish Life, the pensions specialist arm of the Royal London Group, has introduced new Income Release annual review documents to help IFAs better advise their clients and fulfil their Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) obligations.
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| //25-12-2008 |
Our broken health care system hurts everyone. Health insurance premiums are going up three times faster than pay, with many working families shouldering a growing share of those costs.
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| //25-12-2008 |
Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CINF) announced that on December 19, 2008, its lead property casualty insurance subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, appointed Watkins Insurance Group, with locations in Austin and Marble Falls, Texas, as the first independent agency in that state to market its policies. Cincinnati Insurance executives initiated the relationship at the company's headquarters, welcoming agency representatives Patrick Watkins, CIC, CRM, president, and Mike Mosley, CIC, vice president.
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| //25-12-2008 |
Providing health insurance for the poor who grow elderly calls for innovation in a bid to save costs
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| //25-12-2008 |
While members of congress were busy doling out your tax dollars to help keep AIG afloat, the ABC15 Investigators caught some of the company¡¯s top executives holding poolside meetings at an upscale Valley resort.
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| //24-12-2008 |
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee's health panel, will be an important player as Washington tackles health care next year. But his blunt criticism of opponents and his positions to the left of many other Democrats promise to make the process bumpier.
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| //22-12-2008 |
American International Group Inc. is close to a sale of Hartford Steam Boiler, the largest North American equipment-breakdown insurer, to Munich Re for as much as $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
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| //22-12-2008 |
The insurance industry recapitalisation and consolidation have no doubt brought responsiveness and enhanced customer value among insurance companies.
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| //20-12-2008 |
The United States stands alone, the only industrialized nation without universal health care. Americans know it's time to do more than patch up a flawed and over-priced system. Can we afford to cover everyone? Can we afford not to?
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| //19-12-2008 |
Raleigh, N.C. ¡ª Insurance Commissioner Jim Long signed a settlement agreement with homeowners insurance companies Thursday, allowing rates to increase by an average of 4.05 percent.
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| //19-12-2008 |
Thanks to an effort by New York regulators to give life insurers more flexibility in calculating their reserves, MetLife Inc. said earlier this month it expects to reduce by about $1.8 billion, or more than 30%, the amount it must post to show it can deliver on guarantees in minimum-return variable annuities.
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Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- State insurance regulators are seeking to ease reserve requirements for life insurers, increasing the companies¡¯ liquidity as investors and banks curtail funding of the industry.
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