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Farmers Insurance Emphasizes ‘Right Fit’ Coverages for Consumers in New Ad Campaign Featuring Renown Actor/Director Edward James Olmos

July 14th, 2009

Farmers Insurance Group announced it has launched its latest Hispanic advertising campaign titled “Force Field” that includes TV, radio and rich media – all produced by U.S. Hispanic Agency of Record Accentmarketing.
Force Field’ is a visual representation of finding the right fit when it comes to providing individualized insurance coverage that’s right for each person,” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kindred Healthcare Comments on Proposed Medicare Payment Changes for Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals

June 2nd, 2009

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued late on May 29, 2009 proposed regulatory changes regarding Medicare reimbursement for long-term acute care (“LTAC”) hospitals. First, CMS issued an interim final rule in which CMS is revising the relative payment weights that would apply to all discharges occurring between [...]

Unemployed Workers to See Boost in Benefits From Recovery Act

February 26th, 2009

With the Federal Reserve predicting unemployment to reach 8.8 percent in 2009, jobless workers may need the extra benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But unemployed workers should factor in the tax implications of these benefits to avoid owing at tax time.
“If you’re one of the millions of Americans who are unemployed, an [...]

Research and Markets: The Insurance Industry in South East Europe Report Offers a Comprehensive Look at the Regional and 11 National Insurance Markets

February 13th, 2009

Insurance industry in the markets of South East Europe remains very fragmented and with numerous limitations to free flow of capital. However, it is bound to continue its astonishing development and is regarded to be one of the most important future markets for European companies. Insurance premium
growth rates, already double-double digit figures in most [...]

Farmers Insurance Adds Muse Communications to Its Roster of Multicultural Marketing Partners

January 21st, 2009

Farmers Group, Inc the nation’s third-largest personal lines property and casualty insurance group, strengthened its leadership position among the nation’s multicultural consumers with the selection of Muse Communications to be its marketing partner targeting the African-American consumer segment. Muse now joins Farmers’ other multicultural marketing partners, Accentmarketing, which focuses on the nation’s Hispanic consumers and [...]

Assurant Solutions Assures Circuit City Customers That It Stands Behind Extended Service Plans Sold by CE Retailer

January 21st, 2009

Assurant Solutions, a leading global provider of extended service plans and extended warranties, today reaffirmed its commitment to consumers who have purchased a Circuit CityAdvantage service plan. The company added that no action is required to confirm the validity of individual plans.
Assurant Solutions, which is part of Assurant, Inc said it administers most of the [...]

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Appoints Stephen Bailey as Financial Services Strategist

January 20th, 2009

Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality(TM) solutions, has appointed Stephen Bailey as director of financial services strategies, leveraging his twenty five years of expertise and knowledge of the financial and high technology consulting industries to help advance the company’s financial services information quality solution set. [...]

Paradigm Management Services Announces New Vice President of Account Services

January 20th, 2009

Paradigm Management Services, the nation’s leading provider of catastrophic and complex medical management services, today announced that Carol A. Novoa, CPDM, has joined the company as the Vice President of Account Services. In her role, Carol will lead the client service division in delivering exceptional client account management, developing and implementing growth strategies, and contributing [...]