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 [...]
C.V. Starr & Company, a subsidiary of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc., is pleased to announce that it will begin offering its Resolute PortfolioSM products, designed specifically for Private and Public Companies as well as Not For Profit Organizations, through Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity) for business effective June 1, 2009 and [...]
Northern Trust announced it has been appointed to provide an insurance accounting and financial reporting outsourcing solution for ProMutual Group, a leading provider of medical liability insurance in the Northeast. ProMutual Group, with an investment portfolio of approximately $1.9 billion, is the first client to benefit from the full statutory accounting solution developed by [...]
The US economist Robert Shiller is to be awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics for his contributions to the field of financial economics. “Through his innovative work exploring the dynamics of asset prices, Robert Shiller has become a pioneer in the field of financial economics. His findings on the volatility of share prices, [...]
Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance broker, has named Michael D. Paulsen as Vice President in the firm’s Chicago office.
Paulsen, 38, of Chicago, is responsible for new business development and client advocacy for property/casualty and employee benefits clients. He has extensive experience counseling a wide array of middle market firms in transportation, manufacturing, senior housing [...]
Fidelity National Financial, Inc a leading provider of title insurance, specialty insurance, claims management services and information services, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share. The dividend will be payable March 31, 2009, to stockholders of record as of March 17, 2009.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc is [...]
G4S Compliance & Investigations announced the members of its 2009 advisory board this week. Lee L. Bennett, Esq., William J. Breslin, Dennis Chookaszian, Michael J. Conroy and John E. Skvarla, III have been selected to establish the G4S Compliance & Investigations external board. The five leaders form a team of elite business experts offering informative [...]
On January 20, 2009, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on behalf of all persons who purchased the Variable Universal Life Insurance (“VUL”) Policies issued by Tremont International Insurance Limited or Argus International Bermuda Limited [AGH BH] (collectively, [...]
Zotec Partners, an industry leader in medical billing, practice management and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) software, announces today that experienced medical services executive Andrew Bolles has joined the company as director of business development. Bolles is responsible for new business development with a specific focus on radiology, anesthesia and pathology markets.
Bolles spent the last four [...]
Aetna is introducing a health insurance plan with the goal of helping small businesses in under-served communities offer health insurance to their employees for the first time ever.
Called the Aetna Illinois Community PlanSM, it is designed for Chicago-area small businesses with 2 to 50 eligible employees and is approximately 25 percent less expensive than other [...]
