Longs Drug Stores Corp. is in the process of buying a life insurance company to use in its Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss has approved a request by Longs, Walnut Creek, Calif., to acquire Nutmeg Life Insurance Company from a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, for $4.5 million and rename the company Accendo Insurance Company.
Voss also has approved Longs' request to move the domicile of Nutmeg Life to Utah, from Iowa.
Longs, a large drug store chain with more than $5 billion in annual revenue, wants to use Nutmeg Life to offer Longs Medicare Part D programs that now are written by Longs' RxAmerica L.L.C. subsidiary.
