Dec. 19– CHAPEL HILL– Lagging benefits packages are hurting the UNC system's campuses when it comes to competing with peer institutions for new hires, particularly young professors who have a family to help support, system leaders say. At the individual level, the differences in what UNC and its competitors offer for health insurance and defined-contribution…
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19, 2015/ PRNewswire-iReach/– Autocarsinsurancetips.com has released a new blog post explaining how to save money by comparing online auto insurance quotes. The cost of auto insurance is a big concern for many drivers. Every car owner wants to pay the lowest premiums possible and get good financial protection.
Over the past 10 days, three MNsure users have told the Star Tribune about a problem when health insurance applicants are asked how many years they will permit the exchange to automatically verify federal tax information. The Star Tribune reported the other problem earlier this month as MNsure users complained they lost partial applications, and had to start…
Dec. 18– The local dairy Rollingstone Chevre, a family-owned goat cheesemaker that has operated in Parma for decades, was largely destroyed in a fire this week. Owner Karen Evans awoke around midnight Wednesday to flashlights shining into her bedroom and first-responders knocking on her doors and windows. A passerby on Highway 95 had seen the fire and called…
United CEO turbulence: United Continental CEO Oscar Munoz was already facing big challenges when he suffered a heart attack on Oct. 15 after barely a month at the helm. Protesters blocking stores over the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke depressed Black Friday sales even further along North Michigan…
The Henderson County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to an injury collision on U.S. 41- North on the southbound bridge at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday. Ryan Walker of Clay was driving a 2006 Ford Explorer that rear-ended a 1999 Dodge Dakota driven by Tamala Glosser of Evansville. Deputies were assisted on scene by Henderson County Emergency Medical Services,…
–National Income Life Insurance Company, in partnership with the Theodore Pappas SGA Office, donated $5,000 to the Children's Aid Society as part of the Company's Closer to the Heart program of charitable giving. State General Agent Theo Pappas presented the donation to Kevin Allan, Chief Development Officer for the Children's Aid Society at the CAS…
Dec. 18– JEERS… to Idaho state Sen. Thirty states, including many of Idaho's neighbors, have accepted Obamacare's offer to cover 100 percent of the Medicaid costs at first– but never less than 90 percent thereafter. If Idaho followed suit, taxpayers would save $173 million during the next decade.
A.M. Best has released the updated criteria report,“ A.M. Best’ s Stress Liquidity Ratio for U.S. The criteria report was renamed, and was formerly known as“ A.M.
Dec. 18– Knoxville- based physician services firm TeamHealth has acquired Texas- based Everest Inpatient Physicians and Jackson, Tenn.- based Geriatric Essentials. “TeamHealth is committed to partnering with the best acute and post-acute practices in the country, and the addition of these well-established groups to TeamHealth complements our existing…
A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating to B from B+ and the issuer credit rating to“ bb” from“ bbb-” of ARI Mutual Insurance Company. A.M. Best also has maintained the under review status, while revising the implications to developing from positive. Best’ s expectation that if the pending acquisition by AmTrust closes as planned, positive rating actions…
“The justice system is a joke,” Cristal Waller said Friday, a day after the driver was sentenced to five years' probation. The driver was Calvin G. Cosby, 35, of the 800 block of Dawnview Court in unincorporated north St. Louis County. On Thanksgiving night in 2014, his car crossed the center line of Aubuchon Road and slammed head-on into an oncoming car.
–Arthur J. Gallagher& Co. today announced the acquisition of Brown Hobbs& McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Illinois. Thomas Brown, Paul Hobbs, William Hobbs, Dick and Rich McMurray, and their associates will continue to operate in Urbana under the direction of Michael Pesch, head of Gallagher's Midwest region retail property/casualty brokerage operation.
–NSM Insurance Group announced that Kyle McClellan joined the company as a producer on the NSM Retail sales team on Dec. 16, 2015. As a former intern for our organization, Kyle has a strong understanding of the industry and of our business, “said Bill McKernan, President of NSM Insurance Group. NSM Insurance Group is a leading commercial property and casualty…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2015/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– The Simmer Law Group announced today that its clients, three former employees of the Ireland- based drug maker Warner Chilcott, have reached a settlement with their former employer to resolve claims they brought under the California Insurance Fraud Prevention Act. The California action is related to the…
Dec. 18– Zurich Insurance Group emerged as the winning bidder for Rural Community Insurance Services, the Anoka- based crop insurance unit of Wells Fargo& Co. that had been on the block for several months, the companies announced Friday. That's expected to be as much as $375 million, driving the overall value of the transaction to around $1 billion.
Keystone First, a Blue Cross Medical Assistance product and the largest Medical Assistance managed care product in Southeastern Pennsylvania, announced today that it is one of the top four Medicaid health plans in Pennsylvania according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance’ s Medicaid Health Insurance Plan Ratings 2015– 2016..
A.M. Best is holding its 2016 outlook for the global reinsurance sector at negative, citing the significant ongoing market challenges that will hinder the potential for positive rating actions over time and may eventually translate into negative rating pressures. The Best’ s Briefing, titled,“ Reinsurance Outlook Maintained at Negative— Redundant Reserves,…
AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania, a Medical Assistance managed care plan serving Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania and part of the AmeriHealth Caritas family of companies, announced today that it is one of the top four Medicaid health plans in Pennsylvania according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance’ s Medicaid Health Insurance Plan…
