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–Synopsis Timetric’s’ Reinsurance in Greece, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2019′ report provides a detailed analysis of the market trends, drivers and challenges in the Greek reinsurance segment. It provides values for key performance indicators such as written premium, reinsurance ceded and reinsurance accepted during the review and forecast periods….

–Voya Investment Management, the asset management business of Voya Financial, Inc., today announced the launch of Retirement University for Advisors™, an innovative professional development and practice management program for financial advisors who serve both personal and/or defined contribution clients. Rooted in Voya Financial’s mission to be…

Sept. 17– Billy Krause gently caresses the flower basket hanging from a lower limb of the tall tree stump. “Look at that work; this is all carved from a single piece of limestone,” he said of the ornate, moss-covered sculpture, a tombstone dating from the late 1880 s and set in a tiny Buffalo County cemetery. Billy is an old friend, and he and I went road-tripping Tuesday,…

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 2, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– The National Weather Service has downgraded Hurricane Hermine to a tropical storm, but it could spend a long time on the Eastern Seaboard pummeling coastal areas causing flooding, high surf, and beach erosion. Tropical storm watches are in effect for the coasts of Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey, and the…

–Private Risk Management Association announced today that it will serve as host to the 2016 Summit, an event designed to bring together influential leaders in the high net worth industry. The third annual Summit takes place November 13-15 at the Eaglewood Resort and Spa near Chicago and features speakers that focus on advancing the high net worth industry…

–Mindoula Health, a technology-enabled case management company at the forefront of the transformation of behavioral healthcare, today announced that its Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs, Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, will be leaving the company to become the Chief Medical Officer of The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. Medicaid is the nation’s largest…

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 1, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– The National Weather Service is now expecting the tropical storm churning of Florida’s Gulf Coast to become Hurricane Hermine by the time it makes landfall in the early morning hours Friday. Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for the majority of the state’s counties yesterday, and…

–DropIn, Inc. has launched on-demand live video drone deployment for insurers. Unique to DropIn, the stream features two-way audio, allowing the adjuster to direct the drone pilot to the exact area they’d like to cover, placing them in the driver’s seat– while remaining in their office. “With the fires in the west, and the flooding down south, providing adjusters…

–CNA today announced its Catastrophe Operations Center in Colorado is fully operational and ready to manage claims related to Hurricane Hermine, which is expected to make landfall in the next 24-48 hours. Once the losses have been reported, CNA’s professional claim staff will be on hand in the Catastrophe Operations Center to assist with policyholders’ daily…

–ZAIS Financial Corp. announced today that its mortgage banking subsidiary, GMFS, headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA., continues to reach out to customers that may have been impacted by the severe flooding which occurred in southern Louisiana in mid-August 2016. While the situation continues to evolve, GMFS has begun to quantify the impact of the flooding on its…

Boggs was previously the National Account Management Vice President of MetLife Insurance Company, and she is one of the country’s foremost disability insurance experts. According to Thomas Petersen, Vice President of Petersen International, “Lori is a very prominent figure in the disability insurance world and we are ecstatic to have her as part of our…

–A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $15.6 million to a grandmother who lost her life savings in a bogus investment fund that was offered by a MetLife insurance agent. After an eight-week trial, the jury unanimously found that MetLife and two of its subsidiaries, New England Life Insurance Co. and New England Securities, and a former managing partner, Tony…

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 1, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– How well is your community prepared to recover from a disaster, such as the devastating floods that swept through South Louisiana in August or’ The Big One’ along the San Andreas earthquake fault line that is expected to unleash catastrophic destruction on the West coast? Igor Linkov, who leads projects…

Luke’s University Health Network, Geisinger Health System and Geisinger Health Plan today announced the signing of a Master Collaboration Agreement. Geisinger sought to team up with St. Luke’s based on its reputation for exceptional quality, strategic vision and willingness to implement new and innovative models of care in collaboration with physicians.

This claim follows a $10 million settlement that Merrill Lynch entered into with the SEC regarding Merrill Lynch’s failure to adequately disclose certain fixed costs and fees in a proprietary volatility index linked to structured notes. The SEC noted that Merrill Lynch “offered and sold approximately $150 million of these volatility notes to…

–The August downpours that dumped more than 30 inches of rain in two days on parts of Louisiana have left as many as 100,000 cars and trucks damaged– and that’s only counting insured vehicles. The National Insurance Crime Bureau, says claims reporting and vehicle recovery efforts that were initially slowed by the large scale flooding are now in full swing and,…