Insurance Fraud Needs to Target 4 Essentials
According to a new report from Deloitte insurers need an integrated and targeted approach to battle insurance fraud To deal with claims fraud, insurers should create an integrated fraud management...
View ArticleRyan Proposed to End Health Insurance Tax Break
GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan a few years ago proposed and continues to advocate for scrapping a generations-old tax break enjoyed by millions of Americans and it affects three times more Americans than...
View ArticleVirginia, There Will be an Insurance Exchange
The state of Virginia recently said its made progress in updating its computer system for verifying eligibility for Medicaid and has passed insurance regulations in preparation for implementing federal...
View ArticleIsaac Could Target Florida Gulf Coast
While not yet a hurricane, Tropical Storm Isaac has already delivered shock waves from the Caribbean to Florida, and a likely path puts the Republican National Convention starting Monday in Tampa in...
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Isaac Follows Katrina's Path to New Orleans
As tropical storm Isaac approaches the gulf coast it is clear it is weaker than Hurricane Katrina even as it follows her path while the gulf coast prepares for impact as the seventh anniversary of...
View ArticleClothes Dryers Account for $35 M in Losses/Year
According to a government report, an estimated 2,900 clothes dryer fires are reported to by homeowners and renters to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an estimated $35 million in property...
View ArticleIsaac Now a Category 1 Hurricane nearing New Orleans
According to NBC News, Isaac is now a Category 1 Hurricane as it nears New Orleans. Bands of rain are coming ashore with periods of actual light rain, according to NBC's Tamran Hall, allowing some...
View ArticleOfficial: "Isaac May Be Worse Than Katrina"
This morning a Plaquemine Parish official in Louisiana was quoted by NPR as saying "In some ways Isaac is Worse than Katrina" for Plaquemine Parish because the storm is slower moving and its dumping...
View ArticleIsaac Insured Loss Estmate: $1.5B
Hurricane Isaac is likely to cause as much as $1.5 billion in onshore insured property damage, catastrophe modeler Eqecat Inc. said Wednesday according to Business Insurance.com. The storm made...
View ArticleRomney's Plan to Replace ObamaCare: Still Waiting
Being a health policy wonk I have been waiting,.... and waiting to hear about Mitt Romney's plan to replace ObamaCare since I know he definitely wants to repeal it. After three days of the RNC, I'm...
View ArticleWill Provider Incentives Reduce Healthcare Costs?
Beginning October 1, hospitals face steep Medicare penalties for high readmission rates, as they work fast to implement solutions to carry out safe transitions for patients. Oct. 1 is shaping up to be...
View ArticleCollaboration Tips for Agents to Tap New Markets
LIMRA is reporting that less than 50% of individuals in the U.S. have life insurance. There are many untapped markets therefore that agents can target. One of those markets perhaps is those from...
View ArticleSmall Business Health Insurance Survey Results
The findings of a new NFIB survey show the cost of health insurance is what's keeping small employers up at night--still. The latest National Federation of Independent Business survey reveals more than...
View ArticleU.S. Healthcare System Wastes $750B/ yr
The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of...
View ArticleRomney Health Reforms for Middle Class
11 million uninsured Americans came from the middle class, or nearly a quarter of the nation's total uninsured and under ObamaCare most would achieve coverage through health insurance exchanges. Most...
View ArticleRomney "Likes" Several Elements of ObamaCare
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul....
View ArticleCensus Brings Good News
A little good news can go a long way, especially in a slowly recovering economy in which investors, businesses and consumers lately seem to be as ready to pounce on ...Read Full Post
View ArticleDrought and a Hard Market
Following are two things you should know about the spate of droughts across the U.S.No. 1: Droughts have intensified in the summer of 2013 and are likely to maintain their ...Read Full Post
View ArticleFiguring It All Out
There's plenty of technobabble, industry jargon and new stuff we all have to learn. I have trouble cutting through all the acronyms in the insurance industry, which includes names of ...Read Full Post
View ArticleLooking Forward to Great Advice
I love using axioms or cliches in a story. An axiom, according to Dictionary.com, is a self-evident truth that requires no proof. The website defines a cliche as a trite, stereotyped expression....
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