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Targeted News Service Targeted News Service. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16– Tyco Healthcare Group, Mansfield, Mass., has been assigned a patent developed by Stanislaw Marczyk, Stratford, Conn., for a “tissue stop for surgical instrument.”

A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of A and an issuer credit rating of“ a” to GuideOne National Insurance Company. On April 27, 2012, GuideOne National became a member of the GuideOne Insurance Companies’ existing intercompany reinsurance pool, ceding 100% of its business to the pool and retaining 0% of the pool’ s gross business.

She said Farm Bureau’s two home-insurance entities, S.C. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. and Palmetto Casualty Insurance, are non-renewing policies based on property locations, house-construction type and other factors “that contribute the most to the company’s overall exposure.” On Wednesday, The Post and Courier revealed that Allstate, the…

July 13– After living most of her life without health insurance, Heidi Chaya isn’t even 25 yet, and she already has more medical bills than she can imagine paying off. She works three part-time jobs. “There’s no way out of it, I feel like,” said Chaya, 24, of Red Bank. “

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has awarded $150,000 in college scholarships to students of African American, Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic descent, who reside and plan to attend college in the United States. This year, MassMutual awarded $2,500 and $5,000 scholarships to 33 high achieving college students from diverse backgrounds to…

Rugge was a theological student at Harvard University before he earned his medical degree at Yale. “In my case, I picked the Mass Mental Health Center, a psychiatric hospital in Boston, and I decided to go from one kind of study to another– from divinity to medical,” said Rugge, chief executive officer of Hudson Headwaters Health Network, headquartered in Queensbury.

“One of the biggest issues facing para-transit or nonemergency medical transportation providers today is funding cuts and reductions in Medicaid reimbursement rates,” explains Matt Andrews, CPCU, ARe, general manager- community and medical transportation, for National Interstate Insurance Company. Sheila Shaw, senior vice president for Irwin Siegel…

There was no doubt of the pride felt by father and son as they both stood to accept the Agency of the Year Award from Rough Notes Editor-in- Chief Tom McCoy. Chairman Rick Theders, CIC, who founded Clark- Theders Insurance Agency in 1977 when he purchased the Jim Clark Agency, talked about his dream of creating a place where people could help others by providing…

Insurance-linked securities market matures and gathers momentum. For the better part of the past 10 years, the financial service industry has been trying to find ways to combine the advantages of an unlimited supply of funds via the capital markets with methods to help finance the risk transfer industry. What made this so remarkable was that the record was set…

Hire people with passion and then get out of their way. And it certainly fits the way that Glenn Montgomery and Wayne Fick feel about the people that are part of the team of entrepreneurs who serve the clients of the agencies they co-founded- Brownstone Insurance Agency, Inc., and Murphy& Jordan Insurance Agency, both located in Norwell, Massachusetts.

Low limits can mean big trouble for insureds. It s fortunate for purchasers of commercial property insurance that policies generally provide some kind of coverage for valuable papers and records. One form that defines valuable papers and records is the Businessowners Standard policy BP 0100.06 12 of the American Association of Insurance Services.

Jim Pender and Gary Trippe offer disabled vets a career path in insurance. In keeping with the popular tradition that is now well into its second decade, The Rough Notes Company is proud to announce the 2012 winners of its annual Community Service Award. Jim Pender is honorary chairman of the firm, and Gary Trippe is managing director.

CHICAGO, July 16, 2012– The American Medical Association announced today that more than 60 organizations have pledged their formal support to an AMA effort designed to help physicians better use health insurer-provided data reports as tools to enhance the quality and value of patient care. “Almost every public and private health insurer presents…

Mr. Johnson joins Starr with over thirty years of claims leadership experience working for global commercial insurers. Mr. Johnson will report directly to Charles Dangelo, President of Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc. and Ed Navarro, Chief International Officer. STARR COMPANIES and the STARR Logo are trademarks worldwide for the services offered by the…

Principal Real Estate Investors and Urban Pacific Investors, LLC, broke ground today on One Rincon Hill Phase II, a 52- story, 299- unit residential development in San Francisco’ s South of Market District. “The Phase II development of Rincon Hill is an attractive addition to our real estate investment portfolio,” said Rod Vogel, managing director at Principal Real…

Serious vision disorders cause thousands of Americans to leave work and can qualify them for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, according to Allsup, which represents thousands of people applying for SSDI each month. Allsup and other organizations nationwide are raising awareness during UV Safety Month in July about the damage from…

Keynote ® Systems subsidiary, Keynote DeviceAnywhere ®, the global leader in mobile application lifecycle management, has announced that the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company or VALIC has selected Keynote DeviceAnywhere’ s Test Center Enterprise Interactive™ to enhance and provide ongoing technological support for the VALIC Mobile app.