As a result of the development of a new long-range plan for 15-year-old Intercare Holdings Insurance Services, the firm’s senior management team has announced a series of strategic moves that have focused the Roseville-based company on its core competencies.
CEO George “Mac” McCleary detailed the plan, highlighting the divesture of an insurance brokerage operation and other [...]

Federated National Insurance Company (”Federated National”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 21st Century Holding Company insurance holding company, today announced that it received approval from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (”OIR”) to write commercial residential property business in the state of FloridaMichael H. Braun, President of Federated National and Chief Executive Officer of 21st [...]

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has officially named EMPLOYERS America’s small business insurance specialist®, its workers’ compensation insurance provider of choice for its 22,000 California members. NFIB selected EMPLOYERS because of its strong presence in California, and its focus and expertise as a specialty writer of workers’ compensation insurance for small businesses.
As part [...]

Southwest Medical Associates (SMA), a Las Vegas-based medical group practice affiliated with UnitedHealthcare, introduced a portable medical record (PMR) designed to give health care providers immediate access to their patients’ health care information.
The PMR is a compact disc that – instead of containing the data on the disc – has a link to a portal [...]

The Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has appointed Ned Moran as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer.
Mr. Moran is responsible for ensuring that all information systems and services meet the Bank’s operational and strategic objectives. He has over 23 years of information technology experience in the financial [...]

Western property and casualty insurer, Capital Insurance Group (CIG), announced today it is partnering with The Protector Network a benefits provider of safety, security and risk-management tools and information — to give CIG policy clients an unprecedented reward program.
The purpose of the program is to provide CIG-insured households and businesses with ways to reduce [...]

Molina Healthcare, Inc. announced that, based on its preliminary year-end analysis, it is narrowing its guidance range for fiscal year 2008 and now expects to report earnings per diluted share of $2.22 to $2.28, an increase from 2007 earnings per diluted share of $2.05. The new guidance range is within the Company’s previous expectation for [...]

Nevadans looking for good news about affordable health care coverage are in luck Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield introduced SmartSense — new price-conscious, choice-driven health insurance plan targeted to “early” retirees, the self-employed, independent contractors, students and the uninsured.
“SmartSense represents the best of Anthem’s plans,” said Mike Murphy, president, Anthem Blue Cross and [...]

Molina Healthcare, Inc. announced that management will give a presentation, followed by a question and answer session, at the 27th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to be held January 12 – 15, 2009, in San Francisco, California.
A live broadcast of the Company’s conference presentation will be available on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, beginning at [...]

WellPoint, Inc. the nation’s largest health benefits company and its affiliated health plans, announced today the expansion of its innovative disease management program designed to help improve the care accessed by members in its affiliated health plans suffering from Bipolar Disorder, a disease that impacts over 5.7 million Americans each year. The Bipolar Condition Care [...]