A big banyan tree fell on the house she inherited from her mother in Naples, breaking through the roof and damaging the kitchen and lanai. With winds reaching 132 miles per hour, the tornado slammed about 200 homes and caused about $6 million in damage, according to the Cape Coral Police Department. Collier County does not yet have estimates for the number of homes…
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– A. Eugene Washington, MD, MPH, chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, has been named to the boards of directors for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Prior to joining Duke University, Dr. Washington…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics& Government Week– From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Deshpande, Rahul Krishna; Chandramohan, Muthuselvam; Sivasankaran, Prasanth Thoppil, filed on September 2, 2014, was made available online on January 14, 2016. News editors obtained the following…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by American Independence Corp. was posted on January 12, 2016. The SEC file number is 0000097196-16-000025.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a trademark application has been made for ” NATIONWIDE INSURANCE” by Scott W. Linek, representing Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The owner/registrar information for this application is: Scott W. Linek,…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Data detailed on Arthritis have been presented. According to news reporting out of Melbourne, Australia, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, “Despite increasing demand for joint replacement surgery and other health services for hip and knee osteoarthritis, barriers and enablers to…
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2016/ PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/– “In just ten days, January 31, 2016, most residents of Dallas must have health insurance or face new tax penalties,” said Dr. According to Florencia Velasco Fortner, President and CEO, the video public service announcement ” My New Year’s Resolution” released by the Alliance in partnership with The Concilio…
The lawsuit filed by New York- based Financial Guaranty Insurance Company was consolidated on Thursday with a similar one filed two weeks ago by Assured Guaranty Corp. and Ambac Assurance Corporation. Financial Guaranty accused U.S. territory government officials of violating the constitution, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 19. The U.S. territory…
Auto Accident Victims in Garden Grove, Anaheim, Irvine, Fullerton, Santa Ana, Orange, Costa Mesa, Brea, La Habra, and all of Orange County California. Get a Free No Obligation Consultation for a motor vehicle accident.Santa Ana, CA—- 01/21/2016– Many individuals have a hard time knowing exactly what to do following a motor vehicle incident on the various highways and…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at AIDS Weekly– Fresh data on Mental Health are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Little Rock, Arkansas, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “We used nationally representative data to investigate health disparities associated with sexual minority status among adults in the United…
PEMBROKE, Bermuda—- AXIS Capital Holdings Limited today announced that AXIS Healthcare— the division of AXIS Insurance that provides professional liability insurance and associated standard casualty coverages for physician groups, hospitals, allied healthcare facilities and individual physicians— has launched an innovative new medical catastrophe…
Thanks to Mercury Insurance one lucky Redhead will win a trip for two to the Bash, courtesy of the “Sammy Hagar Birthday Bash in Cabo Presented by Mercury Insurance” sweepstakes. The sweepstakes is part of Mercury’s sponsorship of AXS TV’s all-new series, “Rock& Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar Presented by Mercury Insurance,” which follows Hagar on a cross-country…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a trademark application has been made for “NATIONWIDE VENTURES” by Scott G. Brown, Amy R. Grayem, representing Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The owner/registrar information for this application is:…
Jan. 21– Should you invest with your spare cash or pay off your mortgage early? To help understand the economics of the mortgage decision, we test two scenarios: 1) a family uses $200,000 of savings for a home, and invests each month an amount that would otherwise be the mortgage payment (less the tax deduction), and 2) a family invests $200,000 in stocks and bonds while…
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21– The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on Federal spending for Medicaid managed care. Why GAO Did This Study: “The importance of managed care in Medicaid– under which states contract with MCOs to provide a specific set of services–has increased as states expand eligibility for Medicaid under PPACA and increasingly move…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness& Wellness Week– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for “MY PET PROTECTION WITH WELLNESS” by Scott G. Brown, representing Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The owner/registrar information for this application is:…
A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A- and an issuer credit rating of“ a-” to The Hollard Insurance Company Pty Ltd. Formed in 1999, HIC is a direct general insurer domiciled in Australia. The company is a subsidiary of Hollard Investments B.V., which also owns Greenstone Ltd, an underwriting agency that designs, markets, distributes and administers…
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Stanford University, “We use variation in the industry and union status of covered workers within a county over time to identify the causal effects of generosity. Journal of Health Economics, 2015; 44: 54-62. Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam,…
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Workers’ compensation payers using Tower MSA Partners’ Pre-MSA Triage have seen their Medicare Set-Aside allocations dramatically reduced. “Triage projects the cost of a potential MSA and gives clients ways to reduce the costs before preparing the actual MSA,” said Tower CEO Rita Wilson.
