ICW Group Insurance Companies, which partners with 3,800 agents and brokers across the United States, is now offering workers’ compensation insurance in the state of Illinois.
The super-regional carrier’s industry-leading claims services and forward-thinking risk management has helped thousands of companies create a safe and productive work environment, while lowering the costs associated with workers’ compensation [...]

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced that Jonathan Madrigano, Director of Wealth Management, has achieved the company’s prestigious Family Wealth Director title.
Jonathan Madrigano will continue educating principals of private companies that are pre-IPO, private business owners who face near term appreciation events or business succession issues and clients whose wealth has the potential to change the [...]

will become the first national health service company to go 24/7 – responding to U.S. customer service telephone inquiries 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all its medical, dental and pharmacy health employee benefits plans.
In addition, select CIGNA service representatives will proactively monitor Twitter and Web Logs in order to find people [...]

new economic reality means consumers can no longer rely on what’s worked for them in the past. And the ever-changing life insurance marketplace means financial professionals must find even more creative solutions to their clients’ needs.
To meet those needs, Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. launched the newest version of its YourLife® suite of life insurance products [...]

Aquiline Capital Partners LLC (“Aquiline”), a New York-based private equity firm investing in the financial services sector, today announced it has acquired Conning & Company (“Conning”), a leading global provider of expert solutions and services to the insurance market. The sale by Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. (“Swiss Re”), under undisclosed terms, will include Conning’s U.S. [...]

Investment Grade Municipal Income Fund Inc. a closed-end management investment company normally investing substantially all of its assets in a diversified portfolio of tax-exempt municipal obligations, with common and preferred shares outstanding, today announced that the Fund’s Board of Directors has declared a dividend from net investment income of $0.0725 per share of common stock. [...]

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 [...]

Empire BlueCross BlueShield (Empire) announced approval by the New York Department of Insurance to begin offering Life and Disability insurance as part of their broad benefit portfolio. Available through the New York-based affiliate, Anthem Life & Disability Insurance Company, this addition makes Empire a leading information resource and one-stop shop for medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, [...]

Tri-Continental Corporation held its 79th Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Meeting”) in Baltimore, Maryland. Stockholders voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Corporation’s Board of Directors on each of the three proposals at the Meeting.
Stockholders elected four Directors at the Meeting. The newly elected Directors are Kathleen A. Blatz, Pamela G. Carlton, Alison [...]

Manulife Financial is launching an online Small Business Solutions centre to help advisors work more closely with small business by making it easy to identify and provide comprehensive business and personal financial solutions for their Canadian small business clients.
The site, which is exclusive to Manulife, provides advisors with one-stop access to products and information [...]