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- A.M. Best Special Report: Health Insurers' Financial Results Will Be Tested As Markets Evolve
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- Despite competitive pressures, health insurers and managed care companies have maintained strong earnings in recent years because of stable medical cost trends, improved case management and technology efficiencies. Insurers, though, will have to navigate a challenging operating landscape in 2008, according to a special report by A.M....
- Research articles 2008-01-21
- GAO report rates raters on failures. (General Accounting Office, life and health insurance rating agencies)
- A General Accounting Office study of five insurance rating companies found that rating systems for the financial health of insurance companies varied markedly among them. Weiss Research, for example relied less than the other firms, including A.M. Best anA General Accounting Office study of five insurance rating companies found that...
- Research articles 1994-10-10
- E&S insurers' health improving.(surplus lines insurance, report for 1999)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
- CHICAGO-Direct premium volume for the surplus lines industry increased 8% in 1999, mostly as a result of migration of business risks from the standard market into the non-admitted market, A.M. Best Co. reports in its seventh annual study of the indus CHICAGO-Direct premium volume for the...
- Research articles 2000-10-02
- Best study sees pace of insurer failures continuing. (A.M. Best Co., life and health insurers)
- An A.M. Best Company Inc study of the solvency of life and health insurers forecasts that more insurance companies will fail. According to the study, most of the 290 insurance companies that failed between 1976 and 1991 were relatively new, small companieAn A.M. Best Company Inc study of the solvency...
- Research articles 1992-07-20
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- A.M. Best Report: Evaluating Health-Care Systems
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co.'s evaluation of a nonprofit health-care system encompasses its overall creditworthiness, as well as the system's ability to financially and strategically support an owned or affiliated health and captive insurance company and to potentially enhance the stand-alone issuer credit and financial strength ratings of these...
- Research articles 2007-06-20
- A.M. Best Comments on Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company's Pending Acquisition of Business From Highmark Life & Casualty
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. commented that the financial strength rating FSR of Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company Fort Dearborn Life, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (both of Chicago, IL), remains unaffected by the announcement of the pending acquisition of the group...
- Research articles 2006-03-20
- A.M. Best Assigns Issuer Credit Ratings to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Of New England, Inc. and HPHC Insurance Company, Inc
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned issuer credit ratings ICR of "bbb" and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ Good of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. HPHC, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, Inc. and HPHC Insurance Company, Inc. (all of Wellesley, MA). The outlook for...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of Coventry Health Care's Subsidiaries - Formerly Owned by First Health Group Corporation
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength ratings to B++ Very Good from A- Excellent for the insurance subsidiaries formerly owned by First Health Group Corporation. The entities downgraded include First Health Life & Health Insurance Company Texas, Cambridge Life Insurance Company Missouri, and American Life...
- Research articles 2005-02-04
- A.M. Best to Demonstrate Best's Health Center at National Managed Health Care Congress
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. representatives will be available to discuss the company's many insurance industry information products at the National Managed Health Care Congress April 24-26, 2006 in Booth #331 at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Senior executives from Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and health plans who...
- Research articles 2006-04-18
- A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to MVP Health Plan of New Hampshire Inc
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating FSR of B+ Good and an issuer credit rating ICR of "bbb-" to MVP Health Plan of New Hampshire Inc (Bedford, NH). A.M. Best also has affirmed the FSR of B+ Good and assigned ICRs of "bbb-" to...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- A.M. Best Affirms and Assigns Ratings of Health Care Service Corporation
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating FSR of A+ Superior and the issuer credit rating ICR of "aa-" of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (d/b/a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois/Texas/New Mexico/Oklahoma) HCSC (Chicago, IL). In addition, A.M. Best has...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- A.M. Best Upgrades Ratings of Health Care Service Corporation
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength ratings to A+ Superior from A Excellent of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (d/b/a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois/Texas/New Mexico) HCSC (Chicago, IL) and its affiliates. A.M. Best has also upgraded the financial strength...
- Research articles 2005-06-20
- A.M. Best Takes Various Rating Actions on Coventry Health Care, Inc
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings FSR of B++ Very Good for the following subsidiaries of Coventry Health Care, Inc. Coventry [NYSE: CVH] (Bethesda, MD): Coventry Health & Life Insurance Company (Wilmington, DE), Carelink Health Plans, Inc (Charleston, WV), Coventry HealthCare of Georgia, Inc...
- Research articles 2006-10-27
- A.M. Best Special Report: Evaluating Health-Care Systems
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. evaluates the ability of not-for-profit U.S. hospitals and health-care systems to support their health maintenance organizations and captive insurance company subsidiaries. These evaluations generally are performed in the course of assigning a Best's Financial Strength Rating to a hospital's subsidiaries.
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- A.M. Best Assigns Rating to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. and Its Affiliates
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of B++ Good to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. HPHC, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, Inc. and HPHC Insurance Company Inc (Wellesley, MA). The outlook for the rating is stable.
- Research articles 2007-02-13
- A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to MVP Health Plan and Preferred Care
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned financial strength ratings FSR of B+ Very Good to MVP Health Plan, MVP Health Insurance Company (d/b/a MVP) (both of Schenectady, NY) and Rochester Area Health Maintenance Organization, Inc. (d/b/a Preferred Care) (Rochester, NY). The outlook for all ratings is stable.
- Research articles 2006-05-03
- Shouldering Health Care Reform
- There's nothing like personal experience to bring an issue to light. Today I go in for surgery that will repair my separated shoulder. The hospital looks so serene from the outside, but anyone who has either undergone surgery or dealt with the morass of health care in this country knows...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Kinetic Concepts, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Tao Levy with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed. Unidentified Analyst Yes, good morning. This is Seth [ph] in for Tao. Congrats on a good quarter. Catherine M. Burzik - President and Chief Executive...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
- Deciding Whether You're in the Right Job
- Regardless of what you do for a living, it's human nature to wonder at times if you are in the right job. Most people spend at least some of their working life questioning themselves and their careers—and speculating about whether other occupations or work situations might be more fulfilling and...
- Articles 2007-04-20
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