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- Legal Briefs: Property policy exclusion ambiguous, court rules.(insurance industry cases)(Brief Article)
- An exclusion from a commercial all-risk insurance policy for loss or damage caused by settling was ambiguous and should be interpreted in favor of the policyholder, a Colorado appellate court has ruled. Russell Lee Novell purchased a commercial all An exclusion from a commercial...
- Research articles 2001-05-21
- 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
- Health, Disability Insurance and Labor Force Participation
- Over half a million men of working age left the labor market over the course of the 1990s. In this paper this remarkable decline is explored, and the roles played by the interaction of skills, long-term sickness and the disability benefit system are highlighted. The analysis shows that the decline...
- White papers 2004-08-10
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- Cigna Group Insurance and Cigna Healthcare
- Cigna Group Insurance and Cigna Healthcare in Philadelphia are teaming up to offer coordinated disability and health care services. A significant component of the program will focus on return-to-work strategies.
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Nationwide deploys multifaceted health care and wellness tactics; Goal is to 'marry' health, productivity, disability and medical data.(2008 Benefit Manager of the Year)
- Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK COLUMBUS, Ohio-A series of aggressive health management programs initiated by Associate Vp Jack Towarnicky's Health Benefits Planning team have helped Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. keep its employee health benefit costs consistently well below national averages. Nationwide's...
- Research articles 2008-09-22
- Cigna Group Insurance.(Brief article)
- Cigna Group Insurance enhanced its disability-claims-reporting platform by providing customers more robust self-service capabilities via the Web. Through one secure site, employers now have access to a variety of critical operational claims information, such as advice-to-pay reports, individual claims status and new claim notifications, as...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- 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. 1. My Job’s Disability Insurance Will Cover Me You may believe that after an accident or illness your lost income will be covered through...
- Articles 2009-09-30
- The Senate Bill: Medicare And Much Else
- Editor's Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill's insurance reforms, and discussed...
- News items 2009-11-21
- Guide to Long Term Care Insurance
- Insurance is an important tool for protecting yourself against risk. For instance, health insurance pays your doctor and hospital bills if you get sick or injured. But how can one help protect yourself against the significant financial risk posed by the potential need for long-term care services, either in a...
- White papers 2004-08-19
- 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
- Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly Companies
- Flexible parental-leave programs are one of the keys to employee retention. These exemplary companies have policies in place that rank high with working parents. Ernst & Young Tax, accounting, and financial services New York, NY Leave Policy: Six weeks of fully paid parental leave...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- O'Brien Named Business Leader for GE Insurance Solutions' U.S. Accident & Health Unit
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Patrick O'Brien has been named Business Leader for GE Insurance Solutions' U.S. Accident & Health business unit, responsible for the company's U.S.-based Long Term Care, Group Long Term Disability, Managed Behavioral Health, Critical Illness, and Personal Accident products.
- Research articles 2005-03-30
- Large Companies Broaden Voluntary Benefit Choices, But See Lackluster Participation
- Many of the nation's biggest companies, facing an uncertain economic outlook and health care cost increases approaching double digits, have expanded their voluntary benefits packages. In an analysis of its database of 88 of the top 100 Fortune 500 companies, MetLife found that long-term care insurance, offered by 33 percent...
- White papers 2005-11-07
- Prudential announces new brand name for health and employee benefits business
- ROSELAND, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 27, 1996--The Prudential Insurance Co. of America announced today a new brand name for its health and employee benefits business. The new name, Prudential HealthCare, will serve as the brand name for all of the company's managed health care and employee benefit products, including its HMO,...
- Research articles 1996-03-27
- Bank of the West to Offer Customers Insurance Products and Services
- SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--April 10, 1997--Bank of the West is one of the first commercial banks in Northern California to offer a wide line of insurance products and services through a branch network. The 104 branch Bank, the fifth largest in California, will offer The New England's line of life,...
- Research articles 1997-04-10
- Third try is magic at Prudential - Prudential Insurance Co. agents - Developments in Industrial Relations
- After rejecting two tentative pacts, members of the Food and Commercial Workers approved a new 2-year agreement for some 16,000 insurance agents employed by Prudential Insurance Co. in 36 States and the District of Columbia. The major stumbling blocks to settlement reportedly were proposals relating to working conditions and...
- Research articles 1994-04-01
- Health, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy, Life and Disability
- In the world of small business, there's nothing more critical to one's company's success than the health and well-being of your employees. Aetna is committed to putting the member at the center of everything they do - with a new generation of consumer-friendly health care benefits and insurance and related...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- 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
- New GASB rules for benefits could wreak havoc
- SYRACUSE - Amid the budgetary turmoil affecting many state and local governments these days is a ticking time bomb set to go off in mid-2006.The Governmental Accounting Standards Board GASB is expected early next year to finalize new standards that require governments to report, account for, and contribute toward the...
- Research articles 2003-10-17
- Aetna Selects Chesapeake's T-Recs Enterprise for Global Treasury Operations
- Multi-Monetary Unit, Workflow Management and Reporting Capabilities Drive Aetna's Decision Making OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Chesapeake System Solutions, Inc.[R] (www.chessys.com), a premier provider of integrated financial governance, risk and compliance software solutions to the world's foremost enterprises, announced today that Aetna, Inc., a leader in health care, dental, pharmacy,...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
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