–Acorns, the country’s fastest-growing micro-investing app with more than 2.9 million investment accounts, has announced its publication of the Acorns Guide to Personal Finance, in partnership with Udemy, the leading online learning platform. The five-step course was developed by Jennifer Barrett, Chief Education Officer for Acorns and Editor in Chief of…
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Wolters Kluwer’ s ELM Solutions today announced it has added comprehensive spend management capabilities to its award-winning Passport Office Companion solution. ELM Solutions introduced Office Companion with matter management to legal and insurance claims professionals in 2017 to help enhance their user experience. “Passport Office Companion…
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30, 2018/ PRNewswire-iReach/– Carinsuranceplan.org has released a new blog post explaining how to switch car insurance providers with quotes. Drivers may be unsatisfied with their current policy due to several reasons: high costs, poor customer service, long waiting period for claiming benefits. If the agency treats its customers poorly, car…
TPA Stream, a health insurance administration software company that developed the proprietary STREAM technology for automating health insurance administration, announced today the completion of $800,000 in series seed financing. “Healthcare providers and TPAs have been searching for a solution to lower their costs and decrease the amount of time it…
A letter from the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services sent to state Medicaid directors on Jan. 11 allows states to refuse Medicaid benefits unless they have a job, are in school, volunteer, serve as a caregiver, or take part in some sort of “community engagement.” Nine states– Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kansas, Utah and Arizona–…
A.M. Best has commented that the Credit Ratings of Employers Reassurance Corporation and Union Fidelity Life Insurance Company remain unchanged following the Jan. 16, 2018, announcement that General Electric Company will contribute approximately $15 billion of statutory capital over a seven-year period to strengthen the long-term care reserves of…
The leaders of Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan announced the ambitious goal of improving health care coverage all of their employees. They say they are forming a new company that will be “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” and hint its results might be applied on a broader scale. But the campaign is in its early planning stages and faces many challenges.
When the storm impacted the island territory hit Puerto Rico in September, it devastated highways, ports, and the electrical grid, debilitating many of the industries based on the island. The storm only worsened an existing shortage hospitals have been working around since 2014, saidMark Ross, regional manager for the southeastern emergency preparedness…
West Trenton, N.J.- based NJM Insurance Co. is ramping up efforts to market and sell personal and workers compensation insurance in Pennsylvania, said John Hardiman, a spokesman for NJM. “As we think about what is the next right step for our company, proactively expanding deeper into Pennsylvania makes a lot of sense,” said Hardiman. Its foray into Pennsylvania will…
Spencer Levy, the head of research for CBRE in the Americas, is fairly hopeful about the coming year for commercial real estate. At the annual commercial real estate outlook meeting of the New Jersey chapter of NAIOP held on January 22, Levy addressed the state of the U.S. economy as a whole as well as the role real estate and taxes may have in the coming years.Despite…
Jan. 30– Judy McCarthy, wife of the state’s highest-ranking Republican, has spent more than three years working full time for the California Republican Party, financial records show. McCarthy, who is married to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, has earned nearly $160,000 since mid-2014 working on the state party’s donor programs. Cynthia Bryant, the…
–Soaring Sky, a premiere drone service and training company, is working with insurance companies nationwide to improve disaster management and structural inspections. Our drones provide a faster inspection process, a safer way for adjusters to do their jobs without having to physically climb on structures, ultimately saving insurance companies time and…
Altogether, Monday’s forum at City Hall hosted by the League of Women Voters was a noncontentious 90 minutes among candidates Terry Hutchison, Mitch Norgart, Linda Penniman and Gary Price. The Naples election for three council seats is Feb. 6. Norgart, a longtime Naples real estate broker, is making his first run for the council.
EverythingBenefits, a provider of comprehensive, next-generation benefits technology solutions and services, today announced an association with Transamerica, a leading provider of insurance, retirement and investment solutions. The arrangement will develop bidirectional 360 ° financial information communication networks to allow financial…
Mr. Cowieson and Mr. Lamoreaux bring key healthcare insurance industry expertise to support PA’s market strategies and to further enhance the support and advice we provide our clients. Mr. Cowieson has a background in re-engineering business operations within the US as well as international business, having lived and worked in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
–Today, Esurance announced that Californians who drive for rideshare companies, such as Uber and Lyft, have a new insurance option that offers protection whether the driver is waiting for a ride request, on the way to pick up a passenger, or driving a passenger. “Ridesharing companies have grown in popularity, especially in California, which has the most rideshare…
–OpenText™, the global leader in Enterprise Information Management, today announced that Pacific Life Insurance, a Fortune 500 ® company and insurance provider serving some of the largest United States companies as its clients, has selected OpenText™ Core to provide seamless internal and external document sharing, expanding collaboration capabilities in…
–Nephila Holdings Ltd, parent company to Nephila Capital Ltd, the first dedicated investment manager specializing in reinsurance and weather-related risk, announced today that it has expanded its weather and ESG-driven business with the launch of a new specialty division, Nephila Climate. Richard Oduntan, the head of Nephila’s weather risk investment team,…
–The National Committee for Quality Assurance, a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare, has certified Jiva™— the end-to-end population health management platform from ZeOmega ®— for 10 Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set 2018 measures. The number of HEDIS measures for which ZeOmega is now certified…
