Statement from Dr. Donald Palmisano, spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights and the former president of the American Medical Association (2003-2004) in response to President Obama’s speech to the American Medical Association House of Delegates Annual Meeting in Chicago today:
I want to thank President Obama for coming to Chicago today. He came with [...]

Allied World Assurance Company (U.S.) Inc., a member company of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, announced that Tom Rocca, Assistant Vice President, General Casualty, Brokerage, will be participating in a panel at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Risk Management Seminar to be held on June 7-10, 2009 in San Jose, California. The panel, taking [...]

Zurich, a leading property and casualty insurance provider in North America and globally,announced Mario Vitale, CEO of Zurich Financial Services’ Global Corporate business division has been selected Honoree of the Year by The Chinese American Insurance Association (CAIA). Vitale will also accept the 2009 Title Sponsorship Award on Zurich’s behalf at the 18th Annual Chinese [...]

By targeting places where people congregate, such as churches, community centers and supermarkets, the organizations and people featured in the 2009 Aetna African-American History Calendar are spreading health and wellness messages to African-American communities across the country.
Most people are intelligent. If you give them appropriate information about their health, they’ll make good decisions,” said Bishop [...]

Armed with data that show that ninety percent (90%) of physicians surveyed have had to change the way they treat patients based on restrictions from an insurance company, a delegation of physicians from New York State submitted a resolution calling upon the American Medical Association to create and implement a Code of Conduct for the [...]

HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education and the American Hospital Association (AHA) have partnered with more than a dozen national organizations to launch an initiative designed to generate awareness among medical professionals and others within communities about the challenges — medical, social and emotional — that veterans and their families face as they return home from [...]

a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations working to simplify healthcare administration, announced today that the American Medical Association (AMA) has endorsed its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) initiative.
Joseph M. Heyman, MD, chair of the AMA Board of Trustees, offered the following statement of support for CORE: “The standardized operating [...]

A.M. Best Co. will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the American Bankers Association 2008 Annual Convention, Market Expo & Directors’ Forum, November 9-12 at the Hilton San Francisco. Representatives will be available at booth #706 to discuss A.M. Best’s interactive credit ratings for U.S. banks.
A.M. Best is offering Bank Deposit, Issuer Credit and Debt Security [...]

Sixty of the region’s employers attended a kick-off breakfast this week for Philadelphia’s second annual National Walk Lunch Day(SM), sponsored by Independence Blue Cross. Hosted by Independence’s President and CEO Joseph A. Frick, the breakfast promoted National Walk Lunch Day, a national event held each spring to promote the idea of improving health [...]

Pacific Life recently added two new investment options to its offerings for variable universal life insurance policyowners. The addition of the Mid-Cap Value Portfolio and the American Funds Asset Allocation Portfolio expands the breadth and depth of the investment options lineup and variable life insurance policyowners can now choose from 59 investment options.
American Funds Asset [...]