Jones is the Senior Vice President of Professional Practice and Pharmacy Policy at OptumRx, a UnitedHealth Group Company, in Irvine, California, and previously served as URAC’ s Vice Chair. Representing the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, Jones replaces Marianne Fazen, PhD, who will stay on the Board as Immediate Past Chair. New appointments to the leadership of…
MassMutual’ s Retirement Services Division welcomes two relationship managers to its growing sales and client relationship management division, led by Hugh O’Toole. Kevin Reilly has been promoted to relationship manager with MassMutual’ s Retirement Services Division, effective April 2. He brings more than 14 years of financial services experience to the…
Recent research from Nationwide Financial shows the top concern for retirement plan sponsors is compliance with regulations, while the most important factor in choosing a plan provider is disclosure of fees. 1 To help retirement plan advisors address these client concerns and adapt to the new Department of Labor fee disclosure regulations taking effect…
Boston, MA May 23, 2012. Highly marketable and descriptive, InsuranceQuote.com truly embodies what a potential insurance customer is looking for and offers a unique branding opportunity for an insurance or lead generation company to capitalize on a term that is currently included in an average of 1.5 million searches each month and commands nearly forty…
Aditya Birla Minacs, a global business solutions company, announced today that it has been awarded: 1. Pharmacy Benefit Management, and 2. Workers Compensation and Property and Casualty Pharmacy Benefit Management accreditations from URAC, a Washington, DC- based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care…
InteractiveMD, provider of first-of-its-kind consumer telehealth retail model and customized telehealth solutions for businesses, today announced the appointment of Roberto Clemente, Jr. as its spokesperson. “Roberto is living the legacy begun by his father, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball legend and first Hispanic Hall of Fame inductee, Roberto Clemente, Sr.,…
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that Teddy Marks, 41, has been arrested on two felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of grand theft…
Amica Life Insurance Company, life subsidiary of Amica Mutual Insurance Company, and StoneRiver Inc., trusted insurance technology partner, announced today that Amica Life is now in production with StoneRiver’ s LifeSuite Automated Underwriting solution. StoneRiver’ s LifeSuite was successfully implemented on time and within budget and is now live at…
Montana rolls out its verification database this week when highway patrolmen begin using web-based listings to instantly confirm whether a driver has a policy in place, highlighting the importance of being covered while driving, according to Online Auto Insurance. The Montana Highway Patrol began using the system on May 21. Minimum coverage requirements…
Delphi Technology, Inc., the recognized leader in technology solutions for the medical professional liability industry and a leading provider of technology solutions to the insurance and risk management industries, today announced that Kevin Cannell has joined the company as Vice President of National Accounts and Business Consulting.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following testimony Chairman Gary Gensler:. I thank you for inviting me to today’s hearing on implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, international harmonization of swaps market reforms, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role in overseeing…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23– Household Life Insurance, Jersey City, N.J., has been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for “systems and methods for application locking using an internal and external checksum.” The co-inventors are Paul A. Goott, Bridgewater, N.J., Alan Socolow, Toms River, N.J., Shree Verma, Dayton, N.J., Cheryl Neal, Pennington, N.J., Zeba Hyder, New York,…
Agents from the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section and Elder Abuse Unit have filed criminal charges against four Philadelphia area men accused of operating an elaborate financial fraud scheme targeting hundreds of senior citizens across Pennsylvania. Attorney General Linda Kelly identified the defendants as Bruce Howard Cherry, 52, of…
Diederich Healthcare, a division of Diederich Insurance Agency, LLC, a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance has announced that the agency has obtained access to a new Individual Medical Professional Liability Protection Plan designed specifically for Physician Assistants nationwide. Although physician assistants may be…
May 23– Lockheed Martin Corp.and a union that represents hundreds of workers in Orlando have agreed on a new five-year contract that provides workers with $2,000 “signing bonuses,” annual pay raises and other sweeteners, the company said Tuesday. Bethesda, Md.- based Lockheed, the country’s largest defense contractor, said the pact was ratified during the weekend…
A.M. Best Company has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- and issuer credit rating of a- of Ardellis Insurance. In a release dated May 18, A.M. Best Company said the outlook for both ratings is stable. Partially offsetting these positive rating factors are Ardellis’ relatively high retention and limited profile as a single parent captive of Universal…
Painter started his career after college in the insurance industry by taking over the general agency in Seattle, Washington for Sun Life of Canada. He then launched his career as an independent entrepreneur by creating Painter Financial Group, a retail broker/dealer, which he grew as CEO and sole shareholder from a start-up to 50 offices nationally, 485…
Chairman, President& Chief Executive Officer Steven A. Kandarian and members of senior management of MetLife, Inc. will outline the company’ s plans to increase shareholder value at an investor conference today. By 2016, MetLife expects to:. To better balance growth, profitability and risk, MetLife will shift its business mix toward protection products by…
In dissolving the near 20- year marriage of Peter James Barclay, an Air Force veteran, and his wife Claudia Kay, an Oregon district court judge in 2010 considered the value of Peter’s VA disability payments in awarding spousal pay of $1000 a month. His only income is VA benefits and Social Security Disability Insurance, a tax-free total of just over $4400 a month.
