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Oct. 01– The biggest nonprofit health insurer in metropolitan New York City is throwing its hat into the competitive ring in Western New York, unveiling a new suite of products for the region and launching a massive advertising campaign starting today. EmblemHealth, the giant insurer formed by the 2007 merger of Group Health and HIP Health Plan of New York, is…

Oct. 01– Almost half of the Florida homeowners who contested discounts revoked by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. succeeded in having some or all of them restored. It requires persistence, patience and proof, said homeowners like Jim Walsh of Deerfield Beach. Less than 4 percent of 152,601 owners who had home reinspections completed before March 31 appeal.

John Calabrese of Staten Island has been named Man of the Year for 2012 by the National Federation of Italian-American Societies, Inc.. Calabrese, who is a Financial Services Representative and Financial Advisor at John Calabrese Financial an office of MetLife located in Brooklyn New York and Staten Island, earned the honor by virtue of his contributions to…

Its basic goal is to relieve the financial pressures of Medicaid on Florida’s taxpayers by turning over poor and disabled patients to private companies, a move lawmakers believe will cut costs. Conservatives love the Medicaid reform program, pointing to an in-depth University of Florida study indicating that the experiment has lowered costs while not…

The panel featured farm policy expert Carl Zulauf and international trade and policy specialist Ian Sheldon, both from the university’ s Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. The discussion focused around the likelihood that a new farm bill will not be passed by Congress before Sept. 30, when the current legislation is set to…

Employee Benefit Research Institute issued the following news release:. Enrollment in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program increased to a combined 46.9 million in 2011, covering 17.6 percent of the nonelderly population, significantly above the 10.2 percent level of 1999. Other sources of public health insurance include Medicare,…

USI Insurance Services announced today the closing of the acquisition of TD Insurance, Inc., a wholly-owned US subsidiary of TD Bank, N.A. TDI Inc. is one of the largest bank-owned insurance agencies and brokerage firms in the United States offering a wide range of insurance and employee benefits products and services. Commenting on the acquisition, Mike…

Forty-odd years ago, Mike Polaski was running a tavern at 22nd and Forest Home. Today he owns several restaurants, a couple of subdivisions, an 80- employee insurance company, scores of show-jumping horses, a handful of thoroughbreds, a white-fence farm in Oak Creek, another horse farm in South Florida, 400 head of cattle, some fancy Hungarian pigs and a thousand…

Wal-Mart announced that it has partnered with Humana to provide rewards for shoppers who buy healthy foods in its store locations. In hopes of further encouraging healthy eating, Massage School San Diego, a proponent of healthy living and San Diego massage school, has issued a list, noting the top 10 healthiest foods. According to Reuters, as part of a partnership…

Sept. 30– Incumbent state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler and challenger John Adams would be hard-pressed to find something they disagree on. In a Yakima Herald-Republic editorial board meeting last week, the two seemed more like colleagues than opponents. Washington is already ahead of the curve on developing the state health insurance exchange,…

Settlers Life Insurance Company is currently recruiting final expense whole life insurance agents in seven new states: New Jersey, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico. Settlers Life Insurance Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NGL Insurance Group, with its primary administrative office in Bristol, Virginia.

Houston, Texas September 30, 2012. He laughs reminiscing that this was the first time he ever looked for a job online, but Stewart came across an interesting opportunity on Monster.com: an opening at a local Nationwide Insurance agency. Warren Barhorst currently runs the largest Nationwide Insurance agency in the United States.

Sept. 30– BRADFORD– Thomas J. Minichiello, owner of Minichiello Insurance Agency, was awarded the designation of Certified Professional Insurance Agent, a professional designation conferred by the American Insurance Marketing and Sales Society at their annual convention in Tampa, Fla.. Minichiello Insurance Agency, located at 229 South Main St., in Bradford,…

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, Keith Ghezzi, West Penn Allegheny’s interim CEO, met with Winkenwerder to deliver the board’s decision to seek other suitors because it felt Highmark had breached its acquisition agreement. One Highmark official, contacted by a Tribune-Review reporter inquiring about the purpose of the event, responded: “What are you talking about?

Sept. 30– The survival of the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year had a double-barreled benefit for the uninsured– not only would it push states and employers to make health insurance more available, but it also will keep many of them from getting hit with their hospital’s most expensive bills. Final publication of the rule will be a…

Luke Sato, chief medical officer at Controlled Risk Insurance Co., or CRICO, a Cambridge- based nonprofit malpractice insurer and legal defender for 12,000 doctors at 25 Harvard- affiliated hospitals that uses data mining to identify vulnerable spots in patient care. The 140- person Cambridge firm has found a unique niche: assembling the largest national…

Safety Holdings, a subsidiary of SAMBASafety Holdings, announced the acquisition of American Driving Records, a subsidiary of CoreLogic. Safety Holdings’ acquisition of American Driving Records expands its ability to provide national driver record access, merges two client bases, and provides a broader suite of risk management offerings.

A.M. Best Company has affirmed the financial strength ratings of A- and issuer credit ratings of a- of the life/health and property/casualty operating subsidiaries of Colonial Group International Limited. The rating affirmations reflect the adequate risk-based capitalization at most of the Colonial Group subsidiaries, consistent increase in their…

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services unveiled its annual top ten lists of criticisms found on U.S. insurance market conduct exams, which serve as checklists for insurers in helping them minimize compliance risk exposure. In a release, the Company noted research shows that fundamental processing areas within insurance companies continue to have challenges…