The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation welcomes Pat Geraghty, Deborah Meehan and Shawn Patterson to its 13-member board of directors. Geraghty recently joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota as president and CEO. He is also chair of the foundation’s board. Meehan is the founder and executive director of the Leadership [...]
Olympus Managed Health Care Inc., a leading provider of health care claims administration and cost containment services, announced today that Steve Stoute, a veteran insurance industry executive, has been appointed to the company’s Board of Advisors. The Board establishes and manages the strategic direction of the company.
Stoute brings nearly 50 years of insurance industry experience [...]
Litigation and insurance coverage claims involving alleged personal injuries and property damage from drywall imported from China is the focus of a half-day seminar set for July 28, 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California San Francisco. The event will also be webcast.
The conference producer, HB Litigation Conferences LLC, has [...]
NERA Economic Consulting, a leading global provider of economic advice and analysis in business, legal, and regulatory matters, today released Snapshot of Recent Trends in Asbestos Litigation, a report analyzing trends in asbestos filings and settlements, in light of legislative and judicial tort reform over the past several years.
The report, co-authored by NERA Senior Vice [...]
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 [...]
Shawn Cooper, Managing Director and Country Manager at Russell Reynolds Associates, is pleased to announce that Tom Long and Brad Belanger have joined the firm as consultants in the Toronto office.
Tom Long joins the firm as a Managing Director and his practice will leverage his extensive experience in senior executive search, board search and executive [...]
Insurance industry veteran Kaj Ahlmann has joined the RLI board of directors.
Ahlmann is a retired chairman, president and CEO of Employers Reinsurance Corporation, a division of GE, and currently operates his own consulting business, Six Sigma Ranch, LLC, offering advice to financial services firms, including insurance companies . He also serves as a director for [...]
Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting (BRS), one of largest independent, non-brokerage risk management administration, actuarial services, and consulting firms, announced today that Michael Kaddatz, CPCU, ARM, has joined the firm as Director, Administration and Consulting.
Mr. Kaddatz brings to BRS over 30 years of risk management consulting experience to governmental agencies, pooling organizations, and individual enterprises. [...]
Insurance claims professionals, insureds and outside defense lawyers have often worked at cross-purposes, making for inefficiency and less-than-optimal results. But change has been afoot since the Council on Litigation Management (CLM) began aligning defense-team goals in early 2007.
“We’re bringing law firms and the industry together to create efficiencies. If we become more efficient working together [...]
Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector contracted in December, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®.
The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, C.P.M., CFPM, chair of the Institute for Supply Management™ Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee; and senior vice president — supply management for Hilton Hotels Corporation. [...]
