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A new analysis shows that delaying home insurance claims for just a day or a week can add millions of dollars in profit collectively for the insurance industry.For each day of delays on home insurance claims, the industry takes in an extra $8.8 million in interest and investment income, according to an analysis by the independent financial institution rating…

Focus Financial Network, a $9.5 billion registered investment advisor, announced today that Winchester, Virginia- based Employee Benefits Administration has joined the firm. Employee Benefits Administration is led by Canini, a 45- year financial services veteran who took over her father’s insurance brokerage in the 1980 s and transformed it into a…

MetLife Pet Insurance today announced a partnership with America’s VetDogs, a national nonprofit that provides service dogs to veterans, first responders and active-duty service members at no cost, to sponsor the dogs’ training and development so that it will one day support a veteran or first responder living with a disability. Charlie, a three-month-old…

GeneDx, the leader in rare disease diagnosis and improving health through the power of genomic data, today announced the launch of a new online offering designed to expand accessibility of exome testing across the U.S. at scale for pediatric patients with global developmental delay, intellectual disability or epilepsy. The new offering enables eligible…

The Ministry of Health and its partners have concluded the 2026 National Health Review Conference with what health experts describe as one of the country's most consequential policy conversations in recent years–a renewed national commitment to establish Universal Health Insurance, strengthen health financing, improve civil registration, and…

Humana Healthy Horizons in Indiana, Humana’ s Medicaid managed care plan, is collaborating with HealthStream, a leading healthcare technology platform company for clinical workforce solutions, to improve the lives of Hoosiers who rely on home-based healthcare. Developed with HealthStream and delivered through their Career Network, myCNAjobs.com, the…

The Dallas and New York Federal Reserve banks plan to launch a pilot survey into the estimated $1.3 trillion private credit market after the end of the third quarter, the New York Fed said. The survey would segment the market into three sections based on borrower size: an upper middle market with more than $100 million in earnings before interest, taxes,…

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance will continue to offer a three-month Open Enrollment Period for Get Covered New Jersey, the State's Official Health Insurance Marketplace, maintaining this long-standing accessibility for individuals and families who rely on the program for their health insurance coverage. A recent court decision…

In a new letter to the editor in the N'West Iowa REVIEW, a health care provider put Zach Lahn on blast for pledging to continue Kim Reynolds' privatized Medicaid disaster, which has made health care more expensive, denied care to thousands of Iowans, and made it harder for rural families to get the care they need. I have recently spent months trying to negotiate a fair…

*Thomas R. Brown, Marsh McLennan Agency's mid- Atlantic chairman, died July 30 at 7.. Insurance brokerage Marsh McLennan Agency on Monday announced that Mid-Atlantic Chairman Thomas R. Brown died July 30 at age 70.. In 2010, Brown helped guide Rutherfoord through its acquisition by Marsh McLennan Agency.

AM Best will hold its long-standing annual Reinsurance Market Briefing at the 2026 Rendez-Vous de Septembre on Sunday, 6 September at 10:15 a.m. at the Hotel Hermitage in Monte Carlo. Firmly established as the leading open-invitation market presentation event at the annual global reinsurance Rendez-Vous, this briefing session will provide a unique…

Question: What are the differences between Medicare Supplements and Advantage Plans? This is Part 2 of my "Medicare Reset Series" designed to prepare those on Medicare for the Annual Election Period that starts Oct. 15. With up to 600,000 people expected to have their current Advantage Plan discontinued, major benefit changes to many Advantage Plans and Part D…

But Santa Clara County expects only $20 to $30 million from this funding against a projected $1 billion dollar loss, while other counties continue to grapple with the fallout from the cuts. After the Trump Administration’ s landmark 2025 spending bill made $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years to Medicaid— the public program that provides health insurance to…

WASHINGTON– Louisiana hospitals are reporting a surge of uninsured patients seeking treatment, many of whom dropped their policies when Congress last year didn’ t extend the subsidies that helped lower-income workers buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Louisiana was among the states that saw the biggest proportion of ACA…

Cara Kolb has been appointed senior vice president of Risk and Compliance by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Board of Directors. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System, the nations central bank. The Federal Reserve Bank of…

While the U.S. House passed its version of the legislation months ago, the Senate has lagged behind on its own edition, releasing the bill text just this past week. Like the House's version, the Senate's 983- page Agricultural Act of 2026 renews and enhances crop insurance and price support, disaster assistance, risk management programs, operation and marketing…

Winston-Salem did not emerge overnight as a Southern business center. For more than a century, tobacco, textiles, banking, manufacturing, food production, insurance, and technology formed the economic backbone of Winston-Salem. Companies such as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, HanesBrands, Wachovia, BB&T, Inmar Intelligence, Garner Foods, Krispy Kreme, Dewey's Bakery,…

While the U.S. House passed its version of the legislation months ago, the Senate has lagged behind on its own edition, releasing the bill text just this past week. Like the House's version, the Senate's 983- page Agricultural Act of 2026 renews and enhances crop insurance and price support, disaster assistance, risk management programs, operation and marketing…