Seventy-three hotels and 34 restaurants in Texas have been awarded the prestigious AAA Four Diamond Rating for the year 2009. San Antonio had the most AAA Four Diamond recognized hotels this year and Dallas had the most restaurants. Lodgings at this level offer an extensive array of amenities combined with a high degree of hospitality, [...]
challenging economy and fast-changing marketplace, the accounting industry faces significant change in the way it promotes products and services. To address this challenge, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, Inc. (NASBA) is featuring marketing sessions and special breakfast presentations on social media and business development at its National CPE Expo on September 21-23, [...]
June 29th, CommuniCare Health Centers (CCHC) received a $1.447 million capital improvement grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund construction of the organization’s new community health center in Kyle, Texas.
“This grant will make it possible for us to build a new health center and expand services to help the medically [...]
The SOA Consortium™announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by JP Morgenthal, EA, SOA, BPM & Cloud Computing Strategist on “Disassembling the SOA & BPM Relationship,” recorded at the March 2009 meeting of the SOA Consortium in Washington, D.C. are now available. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-dc-jpm.
JP Morgenthal gave a provocative [...]
The Texas Association of Health Underwriters (TAHU) will be hosting its 15th Annual Day at the Capitol on March 2, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Austin. The event will provide agents the opportunity to network and discuss client issues with other agents and legislators.
Agents will attend a panel discussion featuring political blogger from [...]
Bill Pollock, Chairman and Founder of National Insurance Partners (”NIP”), announced today that it will sponsor the Cabo Celebrity Golf Classic on April 23-26, 2009 at the internationally acclaimed One & Only Palmilla Resort and Golf Club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The tournament, featuring amateur, professional and celebrity golfers, will benefit the Casa Hogar [...]
Rockport Healthcare Group, a national preferred provider organization (PPO) focused exclusively on workers’ compensation, has announced that through a joint collaborative effort, their client, the Houston Independent School District (HISD), has obtained a 1305 Texas Healthcare Network (TX HCN) certificate.
Rockport has certifiable networks that provide coverage for nearly 75% of the entire working population of [...]
Texas Mutual Insurance Company has secured legal victories in two workers’ compensation cases that originated in Oklahoma and Tennessee.
On Jan. 16, 2009, Texas Mutual Insurance received a favorable ruling from U.S. Magistrate Andy Austin. This case involves a worker who was injured in Texas but sought benefits in the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court, which ultimately [...]
A judge in Guadalupe County, Texas dismissed a case alleging that Texas Mutual Insurance Company acted in “bad faith” in a workers’ compensation case involving a pre-existing medical condition.
District Court Judge W.C. Kirkendall sided with Texas Mutual in ruling that Texas Mutual established a reasonable basis for its decisions in handling the workers’ compensation claim [...]
Texas Mutual Insurance Company won a substantial victory Nov. 13 in a Texas appeals court case challenging an abusive pattern of questionable hospital bills for injured workers covered by workers’ compensation insurance.
The Austin Court of Appeals overturned a Travis County District Court ruling about the interpretation of a Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation guideline dealing [...]
