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The Washington state Department of Health issued the following news release:. In November 2012 the Chiropractic Commission modified the 2010 agreed order against chiropractor Jason Schroeder and placed him on monitoring for at least three years. In December 2012 the Nursing Assistant Program entered into an agreed order with certified nursing assistant…

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Last week, the Government Accountability Office and the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Company released their findings on a study of the causes of recent bank failures in ten states across the country and whether the practices and policies of the FDIC contributed to those failures. The states in the study included Georgia,…

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Maritime Program Group announced a significant expansion and restructure of their Recreational Marine division with the additional of two very talented new crew members, Dana Downes and Shari Trefil. As the Vice President of MPG’ s Recreational Marine division, Dana assumes the overall responsibilities for all commercial recreational marine business…

Opulen Capital, an established life settlement broker announces the release of its new services– aimed at providing insured citizens with the full benefits they deserve. This is in light of a report made by the Life Insurance Settlements Association to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators. In response to these claims, the American Council of Life…

This October, at ULTA Beauty in the Woodfield Green Shopping Center in Schaumburg, members and guests learned how to look their best in the boardroom with a makeup lesson from Celebrity Makeup Artist Mark Chi. Megan Wessels, President of the Chicago Local Chapter, was on hand to welcome the more than 40 attendees to the Chapter’ s November 14th Cocktails for a Cause…

In its Dec. 28 decision, the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers issued a “public reprimand” against Scott Gleason for missing several deadlines for filing a lawsuit against the city of Methuen and various construction firms for damages to his clients’ property in 2001. The missed deadlines resulted in the clients losing their right to sue for damages.

Jan. 15– A panel appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to review taxpayer-subsidized health insurance for retired government workers suggested the city could drop coverage to help erase a financial shortfall. Two groups would be exempted: Retired police and firefighters who are not yet eligible for Medicare but have guaranteed coverage during that period under…

At charges averaging more than $4,000 a month, bills for the two patients added up to more than $180,000 from Medicare– the taxpayer-funded health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled. The suit specifically alleges that longtime hospice CEO Robert Wilson instructed employees to admit patients without determining whether they were terminally…

Jan. 15– Arlington- based Texas Health Resources has teamed with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for what the organizations are calling the area’s largest accountable care organization and one of the largest in the country. They were originally designed to apply to the federal Medicare program. Blue Cross Blue Shield is Texas’ largest health insurer, with 4.8…

Jan. 14– Twenty-seven years after it went broke, Missouri insurance regulators have finally wrapped up the controversial case of Transit Casualty Co.. It had moved to Los Angeles by 1985, when it was found insolvent, but it remained under the jurisdiction of Missouri insurance regulators. In 2001, the Post-Dispatch won a three-year legal battle to discover the…

Jan. 14– BANGOR, Maine– Cross Insurance on Monday announced it had acquired an insurance agency in Boston that focuses on serving clients in the higher education sector. Cross acquired an insurance agency called Academic Risk Resources in the fall, but waited to make an announcement until they hired an experienced person to run the office, Brent Cross, the…

The California personal injury attorneys of the BD&J Law Firm have produced an informational graphic about insurance companies and car accidents. As Los Angeles car accident lawyers, the firm’ s partners have handled thousands of accident injury claims with the US’ s major insurance programs. This simply isn’ t the case,” co-founder and partner of the firm, Sean…

Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc., a leading global provider of high-quality, technologically advanced flexible printed circuit and value-added component assembly solutions to the electronics industry, today reported preliminary financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 2012.. The Company expects net sales in the first quarter…

The Alameda County Social Services Agency is raising some eyebrows in its quest to enroll thousands of low-income residents in Medi-Cal health insurance. Medi-Cal is California’ s Medicaid program providing health insurance to low-income families, pregnant women, children, seniors, disabled people and refugees. Thousands of residents of Alameda County…

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee together with the Presenting Partners for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay- the Coca-Cola Company, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company and JSC Russian Railways Company have unveiled one of the main features of the Relay for the 2014 Games: the torch that will carry the Olympic flame. At the presentation ceremony in Moscow, the…

Actuarial Risk Management (ARM) Enters Strategic Alliance With Prescience 

Mr. Godla will report to William Winkenwerder, M.D., Highmark’s president and chief executive officer. Since 2011, Mr. Godla served as head of enterprise strategy at Aetna in Hartford, Conn., where he was responsible for developing corporate strategy, managing the company’s strategic planning process and driving the implementation of key strategic…

Auto insurance companies in Florida are certainly not all created equally, and when it comes to commercial auto insurance in Florida, the right plan can save a business in the event of an accident or unforeseen event. In 2012, leading commercial auto insurance companies in Florida, such as Progressive, rolled out a variety of improved or brand new program and…