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• States to Employers: Pay Up

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Companies that don't provide health-care insurance could soon get a wake-up call. That's because an increasing number of states - 23 at recent count, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - are considering so-called pay-or-play bills that would force employers either to provide some coverage or pay a...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• Serenity Now!

  BNET - 2006-03-15

  Experts say coverage for noncompliance with Sarbox or other regulatory mandates may fall within the catchall indemnity provided by standard D&O insurance products. Some carriers have begun adding "Defense allocation" provisions into D&O policies. Those provisions allow an insurance company to pay only a portion of legal defense costs when...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., D&O, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• Putting a Premium on Health - Employers Are Giving Workers a New Reason to Get in Shape: Cash

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  When a Wal-Mart memo describing the retailer's plans to hire and retain healthier workers was leaked to the press, it touched off a firestorm. But in truth, many companies are coming to regard a fitter workforce as one way to control health-care benefit costs. Feeling the pinch of double-digit increases...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Worker, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

• Putting a Premium on Health

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Feeling the pinch of double-digit increases in insurance premiums over the past several years, a number of employers have rolled out various kinds of health-improvement initiatives intended to nudge at least some workers toward lifestyle changes that could help rein in medical costs. While these programs, also known as wellness...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• Property Insurance's Uneven Price Blip

  BNET - 2006-02-09

  After two years of cut-rate prices, in 2005 hurricanes inflicted an estimated $58 billion in losses on the insurance industry and began prompting carriers to charge a good deal more for property insurance. According to a survey, in the fourth quarter of 2005, commercial property-insurance buyers faced a median price...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Property Insurance, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

• Drug Discount Peddlers

  BNET - 2005-10-28

  By gathering and automating huge amounts of pharmacy pricing data and making it widely known, Pharmacy Benefit Managers PBMs have certainly exerted a strong downward pressure on retail drug costs. And they have helped employer drug programs fit nicely into managed-care plans, bringing the co-payment features typical of health maintenance...

  Tags: Health Insurance, CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, HMO, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Pricing, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing

• Seeing No Evil

  BNET - 2005-09-08

  Risk managers shouldn't be too happy about refunds of contingent commissions. These are the additional commissions that Marsh, Aon, Willis North America, and other insurance brokers received from insurance companies based on the amount or the profitability of the business the brokers referred to them. Risk managers like to portray...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Commission, Risk Manager, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• Smarter Insurance Shopping

  BNET - 2005-08-11

  Changing insurance carriers isn't a decision most CFOs can breeze through. In a market that continues to soften, many companies can save money by switching insurers, but in doing so they can also ensnarl their borrowing resources and tie up their risk managers. A company that buys a policy including...

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• Infinite Risk?

  BNET - 2005-06-01

  In the most worrisome cases, premiums for finite insurance fully cover the discounted value of all potential losses, and any unclaimed money at the end of the contract is returned to the buyer. All too often, say critics, the only cost to the buyer is the interest earned by the...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Balance Sheets, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting

• Finite Insurance: Beyond the Scandals

  BNET - 2005-04-14

  To accounting skeptics, finite insurance can look like a way for a corporation to retain risks without really retaining them and transfer risks without really transferring them. To be sure, there's little doubt that finite coverage can enable executives to spruce up their companies' financials if they can record the...

  Tags: Accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance