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I Regret Enrolling in an HSA, and So Do Many Others

Copyright 2009 SourceMedia, Inc.All Rights Reserved Employee Benefit News March 2009 EDITOR'S DESK; Pg. 7 Vol. 23 No. 3 711 words I regret enrolling in an HSA Kelley M. Butler I don't have many regrets in my life, but the ones I do have are...

Newspaper Discovers Life Insurance Companies Fighting for Th

Life insurance companies fighting for their lives, too Tom Shean The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Mar. 2--Banks and stock brokerages aren't the only companies being whipsawed by turmoil in the financial marke...

Obama Unveils $634 Billion Health Care 'Reserve'

Following up on themes raised in his first address to Congress, President Barack Obama unveiled a 10-year administration budget that would create a $634 billion health care reserve fund financed by a variety of tax increases and the virtual...

IMSA Chief Says It's a Critical Time in the Life Insurance S

Brian Atchinson, chief executive officer and president of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, said it's time for the industry to organize in this time of market turbulence, government bailouts and the likelihood of additional ov...

North Dakota Advances Stronger STOLI Statute

The North Dakota House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation that would add new provisions to state law on stranger-originated life insurance, including protections for consumers and life insurers. The bill, H.B. 1284, adds to...

N.Y. to Insurers: Follow Our Rules, Too

Insurance companies doing business in New York are required to file annual financial reports that exclude the impact of any special capital and surplus relief granted in other states, Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo announced in a bul...

Frequently Asked Questions Answered COBRA

Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll rights reserved Business Insurance 16 February 2009 NEWS; Pg 24 526 words Frequently asked questions answered COBRA Jerry Geisel COBRA provisions in the massive economic stimulus bill is by far the lar...

Prepare yourself for employers enrolled in COBRA Surge

Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll rights reserved Business Insurance 16 February 2009 NEWS, Pg 1 825 words Employers prepare COBRA increase registered Jerry Geisel WASHINGTON-Employers will have to scramble to comply with federal legis...

Beneficiary of life insurance are entitled to benefits under

Copyright 2009 Strafford Publications, Inc.All rights reserved Texas Insurance Law Litigation Alert 15 February 2009 Pg 4 260 words Beneficiary of life insurance are entitled to benefits under the former husband of the life insurance policy...

Sitting on the sidelines: the savings rate up. Sales of fixe

Sitting out: savings rates are rising. Sales of fixed annuities have increased dramatically. Bitten by the bear market, investors are parking their cash. Nicole Garrison-Sprenger Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. McClatchy-Tribune Regional News...

Your fear of opening 401 (k) Statement?

Afraid to open your 401 (k) statement? Peter St. Onge The Charlotte Observer, NC McClatchy-Tribune Regional News February 22 - It is a witness to the heart of the financial statements sitting in your mail stack you torment. Opening your 401...

Publication of the Insurance Marketing Magazine Suspended fo

Summit Business Media focuses on resources for publications agent string Clearwater, FL (February 20, 2009) - Summit Business Media has suspended the publication of Insurance Marketing magazine, a title of his adviser Media Network. The dec...

Wellpoint paying $ 10 million to the database in agreement w

Wellpoint paying $ 10 million to the database in agreement with the New York Attorney General Fran Lysiak Wellpoint Inc. stop using the database maintained by Ingenix and pay $ 10 million to a nonprofit organization that aims to establish a...

Private Mortgage Turn negative returns in the third quarter

Private Mortgage Turn negative returns in the third quarter of 2008 BOSTON, February 20 BOSTON, February 20 / PRNewswire / - Following positive gains of 0.26 percent in second quarter 2008 and 0.82 percent in first quarter 2008, commercial...

Legal Battle for Fixed Indexed Annuities should begin in May

20 February 2009 SOURCE: InsuranceNewsNet, Inc. The argument to an action challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission, section 151A has been scheduled for May 8 The American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. costume petitioners ar...

For too long, insurance companies have allowed customers to

Copyright 2009 Post-StandardAll rights ReservedAll rights reserved. The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) 19 February 2009 Thursday FINAL EDITION SECTION: OPINION; Pg A8 LENGTH: 559 words TITLE: PRICE finish too long, insurers CUSTOMERS LE...

Beyond 401 (k) Plans

Copyright 2009 U.S. News World ReportAll Rights Reserved U.S. News World Report Sunday 1 March 2009 SECTION: BUSINESS MONEY; News You Can Use; retirement Pg 70 Vol. 146 No. 2 LENGTH: 553 words TITLE: Going beyond 401 (k) Plans Signature: Em...

Life crushed again as stocks nearly 6 1/2-year Low

Copyright 2009 Inc.All rights reserved Marketwatch.com MarketWatch 19 February 2009 Thursday 5:06 pm EST SECTION: NEWS COMMENTARY; Markets LENGTH: 434 words TITLE: life insurers that the new stocks crashed nearly 6 1/2-year low Signed: Alis...

Health-Care Workers accused of Medicaid fraud

Health workers accused of Medicaid fraud Walter Pacheco The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. McClatchy-Tribune Regional News February 20 - Three Orlando health workers are pampered with lavish trips and using a baby shower from $ 200,000 to Medicaid,...

Legislators sponsor anti-fraud law pension

Legislators sponsor anti-fraud law annuity Brian Neill The Bradenton Herald, Fla. McClatchy-Tribune Regional News 18 February - With the aging of the population of Florida in mind, two members have spearheaded an initiative that would make p...

Obama signs of stimulation of the bill includes retroactive

Obama signs of stimulation of the bill includes retroactive pay Caps on TARP enterprises Raymond J Lehmann Barack Obama President signed the $ 787.2 billion U.S. recovery and Reinvestment Act, the establishment of the stimulus plan the admi...

Operating income below Securian Purpose: The St. Paul insure

Securian target operating profit below: The St. Paul insurer always flourished, and continues its unbroken string of 401 (k) contributions. David Phelps Star Tribune, Minneapolis McClatchy-Tribune Regional News February 18 - Securian Financi...

H Best Special Report: Obama Administration, approach revise

H Best Special Report: Obama Administration, approach revise Treasury Bank Rescue Business Editors / Insurance Writers Oldwick, NJ - (BUSINESS WIRE) - February 17, 2009 - The Treasury Department announced its plan for financial stability in...

Free Guide to Health Savings Accounts Details How employers

Free Guide to Health Savings Accounts Details How employers can reduce health costs, maintain benefits - Benefits of Insurance ANDOVER, MA 02/17/09 ANDOVER, MA, February 17 / MARKET WIRE / -- Health Savings Accounts - the most powerful weap...

AMA pleased to have agreed to Cigna Ingenix Drop Database

Calls upon all insurers to deny the database used to mislead patients and doctors Statement attributable to: Nancy Nielsen, M.D. AMA President The American Medical Association commend CIGNA Corporation today for committing to the insurer of...

Health care are only the stocks Tonic For difficulty Portfol

Copyright 2009 Inc.All rights reserved Marketwatch.com MarketWatch 16 February 2009 Monday 10:11 AM EST SECTION: PERSONAL FINANCE; Mutual Funds, investors Weekend LENGTH: 1333 words TITLE: Health Care are just the tonic for the stock portfo...

Communication is key when it comes to employee benefit plans

Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll rights reserved Business Insurance 9 February 2009 BENEFITS MANAGEMENT; Pg 13 879 words Communication is key when it comes to employee benefit plans, employers are working hard to inform employees abou...

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Businesses here are projected to pay 6.5% more on average for healthcare insurance in 2010 versus this year, according to Hewitt Associates Inc., a Chicago-based human resources service company. Next

Big Easing Seen in Health Costs

Businesses here are projected to pay 6.5% more on average for healthcare

WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama's goal of health insurance for all Americans is getting a boost from unlikely allies. Insurers and medical provider groups acknowledge there's fat in their budgets

Questions And Answers On Health Care Plan

WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama's goal of health insurance for all Americans

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Morgan Stanley to pay more than $ 7 million to resolve

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Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll Rights Reserved Business Insurance April 20, 2009 788 words Health care reform bill expected this summer; White House seeking input from Congress, Obama

Health Care Reform Bill Expected This Summer; White

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Jeanne E. Helton, a 49-year-old Jacksonville attorney, said in some ways she felt fortunate. Overall, I was very blessed, said Helton, a health care attorney with Smith Hulsey Busey. My firm was very

She fought cancer, then insurance: Now she works at

Jeanne E. Helton, a 49-year-old Jacksonville attorney, said in some ways she

Copyright 2009 Roll Call, Inc. Roll Call April 1, 2009 Wednesday SECTION: CONGRESS INSIDE OUT LENGTH: 1062 words HEADLINE: Health Care Reform Could Actually Take Place This Year BYLINE: Norman

Health care reform could take place this year

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Report Shows Small businesses lack of choice in health

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The union representing bus drivers in the Hempfield Area School District has submitted a proposal to the school board that offers a fair amount of savings on health care and an extremely reasonable

Hempfield Area School District bus drivers propose

The union representing bus drivers in the Hempfield Area School District has

The American Society of Medical Doctors (ASMD) today released a nationwide, nonpartisan poll* of physicians showing that: -- 70 percent of specialty doctors oppose current Congressional and White

Doctors Oppose Government-Run Health Coverage

The American Society of Medical Doctors (ASMD) today released a nationwide,

UnitedHealth Group revenue from government programs is about to get much bigger. The Minnetonka health insurer announced late Monday it has won a multi-billion dollar Department of Defense to manage

UnitedHealth Lands $21.8B Military Health Care

UnitedHealth Group revenue from government programs is about to get much

Copyright: The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Source: The Dominion Post in Morgantown (West Virginia) Wordcount: 814 Mar. 18 - Sen. Jay Rockefeller, DW.Va. and Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn.,

The bill creates the pre-existing conditions: seeks to

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The forum had been under way for only a few minutes when Sen. Olympia Snowe brought up an issue clearly on the minds of many in the audience at Husson University -- and the rest of the country, for

Snowe Talks To Business Owners On Health Care

The forum had been under way for only a few minutes when Sen. Olympia Snowe

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