July 02, 2009 U.S. physicians, their employees, and their lawyers and accountants may spend an average of about $68,000 in time per physician per year on interacting with health plans....
July 02, 2009 The SPARK Institute is revising documents that 403(b) retirement plan sponsors and vendors use to share data....
July 02, 2009 Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee say they have reduced the projected cost of implementing their health reform proposal....
July 02, 2009 We hope that you, your loved ones and your business associates are having a great holiday....
July 01, 2009 The economic crisis is starting to cause noticeable problems for state insurance departments....
July 01, 2009 Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest private U.S. employer, says it supports the concept of requiring private employers to offer health coverage....
July 01, 2009 American Life Insurance Company says it is rolling out a “bold, new brand visual identity.”...
July 01, 2009 The finances of American International Group Inc. are “far more stable” than they were a few months ago, according to the company’s top executive....
July 01, 2009 A unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has introduced two short-term medical products and started selling dental and vision products in more states....
July 01, 2009 Assurant Employee Benefits now has contractual relationships with more oral health care professionals....
July 01, 2009 John Hancock Life Insurance Company is trying to do more to educate consumers about long term care and LTC planning options....
July 01, 2009 The Council for Affordable Health Insurance says top-level Democrats would be unlikely to accept the limitations a government-run health care system would impose on care choices....
July 01, 2009 Wendell Potter, a former health insurance company public relations executive, is now a senior fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy....
July 01, 2009 A dental network unit owned by Health Care Service Corp. has acquired a competitor from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan....
July 01, 2009 Employees seem to place a higher value on benefits than on cash....
July 01, 2009 The American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance has published an 8-page brochure designed for women who are considering long term care insurance options....
July 01, 2009 A life insurer has distributed $300,000 in grants to 38 nonprofit groups that help people become more employable and manage their finances....
July 01, 2009 Principal Financial Group Inc. has come up with a tool that can help retirement plan participants estimate when balances might return to Jan. 1, 2008, levels....
July 01, 2009 A health coaching program has picked a supplier of patient education products....
July 01, 2009 Unum Group Corp. has hired Richard McKenney to be executive vice president and chief financial officer....
June 30, 2009 The Treasury Department wants to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would oversee “financial advisors” but would have only limited authority over insurance activities....
June 30, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a decision that concerns whether an employer followed proper procedures when it changed pension benefits calculation rules....
June 30, 2009 Senate members have introduced S. 1389, a bill that could reverse efforts by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to claim jurisdiction over indexed annuities....
June 30, 2009 Insurers may be continuing to sell unsuitable products to members of the military services, according to U.S. Government Accountability Office officials....
June 30, 2009 Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has decided to sell the U.S. Treasury Department $3.4 billion in perpetual preferred stock....
June 30, 2009 A health benefits program distributor says a key division will be depending more on an agent network and less on call centers....
June 30, 2009 Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company has started using the Agility contact and business management tool....
June 30, 2009 New York Life Insurance Company designated May as a global month of service....
June 29, 2009 A variable annuity writer says many competitors are increasing the cost of VA benefits guarantee riders or making the guarantees less generous....
June 29, 2009 Disability Reinsurance Management Services Inc. is entering the group life reinsurance arena....
June 29, 2009 The new Easy Start 401(k) plan could help small businesses add retirement benefits....
June 29, 2009 Douglas Wheeler will succeed Donald Bryan as director of the New Jersey Division of Insurance Tuesday....
June 29, 2009 The average health savings account balance stood at $1,561 in January, up 13% from the average recorded a year earlier....
June 29, 2009 Petersen International Underwriters Inc. observed the 2009 Disability Insurance Awareness Month by offering disability insurance production awards....
June 29, 2009 A health insurer is teaming with a trainer to promote wellness....
June 29, 2009 John Hancock Retirement Plan Services has revamped tools that producers can use to market plans to potential sponsors....
June 29, 2009 A company that helps credit unions offer insurance products has agreed to distribute Medicare health insurance products from Humana Inc....
June 29, 2009 Linda Koco writes about how using psychological data can help agents grow their business....
June 29, 2009 Two large, multinational consulting firms with major benefits operations have announced a $3.5 billion merger....
June 26, 2009 The House could act on bills reforming regulation of the reinsurance industry and streamlining nonresident insurance agent and broker licensing by next month....
June 26, 2009 Lincoln National Corporation announced it has won a Federal court decision in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Transamerica Life Insurance Company....
June 26, 2009 Three former sales and financial representative for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company are suing the company....
June 26, 2009 Employees are worrying about the cost impact of changes that employers have been making to insurance coverage....
June 26, 2009 State insurance commissioners are warning producers that scam artists are posing as insurance department employees to defraud insurance agents and brokers....
June 26, 2009 Most new college graduates value having health insurance, according to a new survey. ...
June 26, 2009 Conseco Inc. says it will reinsure about 104,000 of life insurance policies issued by 2 of its units....
June 26, 2009 Almost half of all American adults do not believe that home ownership is a realistic way to build wealth....
June 26, 2009 Bruce Nicholson, chairman, president, and CEO of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, has announced his intention to retire before the end of 2010. ...
June 25, 2009 A House panel Wednesday approved legislation that would mandate greater disclosure of fees charged by service providers and plan administrators of 401(k)s....
June 25, 2009 Few Americans rate their nation’s health care system very highly....
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