Health Insurance

Great American Life Insurance Offers Single Premium Annuity Product Featuring Bailout Cap and Return of Premium

June 26th, 2009

Great American Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Great American Financial Resources, Inc., is pleased to introduce Safe ReturnSM, a new single premium fixed-indexed annu­ity product designed for those who desire wealth protection and growth potential. Safe Return is unique to the Great American Life product lineup in that it offers clients the security of [...]

Xenos Extends Its Reach Into Central America, Venezuela and the Caribbean

June 26th, 2009

TSX: announced that it has inked a deal with Truenorth Corporation, one of the principal providers of information technology solutions in the Caribbean, to sell Xenos award-winning technology and business solutions to its extensive customer base.
Truenorth, based in Puerto Rico, has long-standing relationships with some of the world’s leading banks and financial institutions. Projects are [...]

Sapiens Announces Reinstatement of Lien by Chief Scientist

June 26th, 2009

Sapiens International Corporation N.V.a leading global provider of innovative business solutions that modernize business processes and enable insurance organizations to adapt quickly to change, and a member of the Formula (NASDAQ: FORTY and TASE: FORT) Group, today announced that further to its announcements on June 4, 2009 and June 17, 2009, respectively, the Chief Scientist [...]

Liberty Mutual Debuts Online ‘Driver Seat Game’ to Give Perspective on Senior Driving Challenges

June 18th, 2009

Liberty Mutual, the eighth largest car and home insurer in the U.S., today launched its online “Driver Seat Game,” a flash-based video game that will allow players of all ages to experience first-hand the physical and cognitive limitations that older drivers may experience while operating a motor vehicle. The goal of the game — found [...]

eHealth Mines Experience to Offer Congress Recommendations on Connecting Uninsured Americans to Health Coverage

June 18th, 2009

This week, as congressional leaders debate legislation designed to reform the nation’s healthcare system, eHealth, Inc’s. Chairman and CEO Gary Lauer discussed the organization’s commitment to helping enroll the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. Additionally, eHealth released its policy recommendations, which are based on its proven success in connecting nearly two million Americans to [...]

Integrated Provider Management Platform Powered by Medversant to Offer Contract Management

June 18th, 2009

Medversant Technologies LLC, the company that changed the paradigm in provider credentialing with AutoVerifi™ (U.S. Patent 7,529,682), announces the addition of contract management to its on-demand Integrated Provider Management Platform (IPM). Medversant’s IPM with AutoVerifi dramatically improves the way healthcare organizations manage their provider related business processes.
“We tackled the hardest problem first and enabled continuous [...]

NetQuote Chooses Latisys

June 18th, 2009

Denver-based NetQuote announced today that it has selected Fairfax, Va.-based Latisys, a leading provider of data center, managed hosting and managed services, for the colocation of NetQuote’s business-critical Web infrastructure. NetQuote, a leading online insurance marketplace, provides pertinent insurance-related content, services and tools to consumers of insurance services to more than 25 million users spanning [...]

Current Administration’s New Regulatory Reform Proposals under Fire from National Center for Regulatory Reform

June 18th, 2009

The National Center for Regulatory Reform, developed by attorneys deeply involved in representing the victims of the federal and state governments’ failure to regulate the financial and insurance industries, today expressed its concerns that the new regulations proposed by the current administration will do more harm than good.
Under the plan, the government would have new [...]

The Corporate Library to Host Conference on The Future of Corporate Reform

June 17th, 2009

The Corporate Library, the leading source for independent corporate governance information and risk analysis, is pleased to announce “The Future of Corporate Reform,” a conference designed to give public fund managers and trustees the knowledge and tools to create long-term value, shape corporate reform, and repair the markets. The conference will take place at the [...]

NERA Releases Snapshot of Recent Trends in Asbestos Litigation

June 17th, 2009

NERA Economic Consulting, a leading global provider of economic advice and analysis in business, legal, and regulatory matters, today released Snapshot of Recent Trends in Asbestos Litigation, a report analyzing trends in asbestos filings and settlements, in light of legislative and judicial tort reform over the past several years.
The report, co-authored by NERA Senior Vice [...]