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- Supplemental Disability Insurance and Long-Term Care Insurance: Building a Comprehensive Executive Benefits Package
- This article asserts that highly compensated executives typically have a strong appreciation of their special retirement planning needs given the severe limitations imposed on qualified retirement plans. The same is true with respect to their estate planning needs and the role life insurance plays in protecting their assets for their...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision
- This paper investigates the effect of health insurance coverage on the decision of individuals to apply for Disability Insurance DI. Those who qualify for DI receive public insurance under Medicare, but only after a two-year waiting period. This raises concerns that many disabled are going uninsured while they wait for...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Genetic Testing for Alzheimer's Disease and Its Impact on Insurance Purchasing Behavior
- New genetic tests for adult-onset diseases raise concerns about possible adverse selection in insurance markets. To test for this behavior, this report reveals about 148 cognitively normal people participating in a randomized clinical trial of genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease for one year after risk assessment and Apolipoprotein E APOE...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Disability Insurance Claim Management Services
- Producers who traditionally have not sold disability income protection insurance are taking a second look at this essential coverage. What they've discovered is an exciting new approach that has evolved to include much more than just financial benefits for an insured who is injured or ill. Contemporary policies now offer...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- The Story Behind the Statistics
- Disability Insurance DI insurance is tremendously undersold. The product is unique and universally beneficial to those in the work force. The more a person earns, the more he has at stake. Insurance professionals should sell DI with conviction. Selling with conviction means selling with an unshakable belief in what one...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- 7 Insurance Myths That Can Cost You
- Think you?re covered? Maybe not. Read these insurance misconceptions and be sure you have the right protection. by Arricca SanSone
- Articles 2009-09-30
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- Downsizing spurs disability claims, survey finds. (Survey by Cigna Group Insurance Managed Disability and the American Management Association)
- Downsizing and corporate restructuring may have trimmed payrolls, but where disability claims are concerned, the reverse is true, according to a survey by Cigna Group Insurance Managed Disability, Philadelphia, and the American Management Association Downsizing and corporate restructuring may have trimmed payrolls, but where disability...
- Research articles 1996-12-23
- UnumProvident Champions Innovative Solutions for Supplemental Disability Insurance Benefits
- Key trends have moved supplemental disability insurance to the forefront of the employee benefits package. Employee-pay-all plans help manage the conflicting corporate challenge of pursuing cost-containment strategies and granting employees access to adequate coverage, as well as help fill gaps in core benefit offerings. They also enable employee populations to...
- White papers 2005-10-11
- Disability claims spiked after job cuts: survey.
- A survey of disability insurance DI claims conducted by the American Management Assn AMA and CIGNA Group Insurance Managed Disability reveals that corporate downsizing programs often are accompanied by an increase in employees' DI claims. The survey, which involved almost 300 mid- and large-sized companies belonging to the AMA that...
- Research articles 1996-12-09
- Added insurance costs of obesity a weighty problem.(Spotlight: Surplus Lines Market)
- Byline: KATIE MERX If American businesses want to relieve the stress of obesity on corporate bottom lines, they need to help their overweight workers slim their own bottom lines, corporate benefits directors and insurance industry studies contend. The New York-based Insurance...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Insurance Industry Leader Joe Kelley Joins Kroll to Launch Disability Integrity Program Within the Industry
- Business Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 19, 2001 Joe Kelley, retired president, chairman and CEO of American General Life and Accident Insurance Company, has joined Kroll Inc. (Nasdaq: KROL), the global risk consulting company, Kroll President and CEO Michael G. Cherkasky announced today. As senior consultant to Kroll's...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Transforming Claims Processing With Improved Quality and Reduced Cycle Times
- A leading US-based insurance company offers insurance products, investment products, and advisory services that address client needs for financial security and protection, capital accumulation, asset distribution and estate preservation. The company's benefits division catering to Disability Income products wanted to improve claim analysts' effectiveness and efficiency, reduce claim decision cycle...
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- Funding Disability Insurance
- Company size most often determines the role CEOs play in designing and funding an income protection plan. For example, in a small business with five employees located in one central location, the CEO is more than likely the key decision maker whereas a CEO of a multi-national conglomeration with thousands...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- 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
- Omnicom's Top Execs Saw Pay Slashed to Save Bonuses for Underlings
- Omnicom's top executives took massive pay cuts so that their underlings could continue to receive their bonuses, according to a filing the company made with the SEC today. CEO John Wren's total compensation in 2008 was cut from $10.4 million to $3 million. BBDO CEO Andrew Robertson...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Disability rehab programs really pay off: study. (Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. study, disability rehabilitation programs)
- Rehabilitation services pay off in the long run, according to a report conducted by the Northwestern National Life Insurance. Results of a seven-year study indicate that when an employee is rehabilitated the firm saves, on the average, $35 in disability reserves for every $1 invested in a rehabilitation program. Savings...
- Research articles 1994-04-25
- Tales from the Trenches: The Ups and Downs of Parental Leave
- Cranky bosses, inflexible schedules, going into labor at work. These five parents navigated the tricky waters of when to take parental leave — and when to come back. Anne San Diego, CA Job at time of parental leave: Instructor at a major university...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- The Five Dangers of Parental Leave
- Leaving work to care for a new child can complicate your career. Here's how to avoid common problems. Danger: Turning into Baby Central Neutralizer: Keep kid-centric chatter to a minimum It's natural for you to be excited about a new baby or a...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- Understanding Bankruptcy
- At one time, bankruptcy was regarded as shameful—something that left the doors of bankrupt businesses shuttered and forlorn, while individuals huddled penniless on the streets or in jail, unable to face their friends. Today bankruptcy doesn't carry quite that stigma. With business being covered far more broadly and intently by...
- Articles 2007-12-18
- B-School Buzz: Women Advance the Same, but Check the Temper; Anderson Helps Disabled Managers; New Biz Read from Haas
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Getting an MBA in health management is one way to sidestep the gloomy economy, BusinessWeek reports. Recent findings from Moody's Investors Service indicate that President-elect Barack Obama's health-care proposals, if enacted, could galvanize the industry. The plans, which call for...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
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