Mitchell International, Inc., a leading provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the Property & Casualty claims and Collision Repair industries, today announced that its collision parts and labor reference database is now available online. Accessible through the new “Online Parts and Labor Lookup” module, the database is now an integral feature [...]

Two Bay Area construction companies who were recently cited by California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet and referred to the San Francisco County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution were today charged with failing to obey a stop order and failing to secure workers’ compensation insurance.
“Under California law all employers must carry workers’ compensation insurance,” said Bradstreet. [...]

Aetna announced that it has been selected by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), a non-profit organization of large employers, as a Platinum winner for the 2009 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles awards. This is the fourth time in as many years that Aetna has been recognized by the NBGH for its commitment to [...]

Key Senate Democrats said on Thursday the cost of their plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system has dropped to $611 billion over a decade, a figure they hope will help draw wider bipartisan support in Congress.
Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd, who are leading the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee’s efforts [...]

Mitchell International, Inc., a leading provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the Property & Casualty claims and Collision Repair industries, today announced the release of UltraMate? 7, the next major version of one of the industry’s most widely accepted collision estimating solutions for both insurers and collision repairers. In addition to adding [...]

Colosa’s open source business process management (BPM) software, ProcessMaker (http://www.processmaker.com), has been selected by Global Risk Partners to automate Workflow and processes behind one of its insurance risk management products, the Global Risk Art Survey Platform (GRASP).
Global Risk Partners conducts insurance risk surveys and assessments for institutions and organizations across the globe including fine [...]

Aetna is sponsoring a free Wellness Breakfast for members of 16 area Chambers of Commerce representing 26 Connecticut communities on Thursday June 11 from 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. at the West Farms Mall, first floor center court.
Aetna is coordinating with the Hartford-area Chambers’ Benefit Center to develop an interactive wellness breakfast program and networking [...]

It’s official: According to the Labor Department, the economy has lost 5.1 million jobs over the past 15 months. As if those numbers weren’t scary enough, the figures show a disturbing trend: The number of long-term unemployed has continued to rise. According to Executive Financial Coach “Chuck” Steege, president, SFG Wealth Planning Services, Inc., senior [...]

Benefitfocus announced a 10-year agreement with Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) for Benefitfocus eEnrollmentTM and Benefitfocus eExchangeTM solutions. HMSA will utilize the new technology to replace its current paper-based enrollment and data interchange between the employer and their members. As highly flexible systems, eEnrollment and eExchange will be configured to automatically enforce the unique business [...]

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 [...]