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Assurant Arranges For Access To Great-West Providers
By Staff WriterA player in the individual, family and small group markets is giving members in-network access to more doctors and hospitals.Assurant Health, Milwaukee, a unit of ...
January 02, 2008
Garden State Bank Sheds Most Of Its Insurance BusinessA group led by executives in the insurance brokerage business at Commerce Bancorp Inc. has completed the purchase of most of Commerce Bancorp's insurance brokerage ...
January 01, 2008
Nursing home population1.8 million: Approximate number of people living in nursing homes. 7.4: Percent of Americans 75 and older who lived in nursing homes in 2006, compared with 8.1 percent in 2000 and 10.2 percent in 1990. 16: Approximate percentage of th
January 01, 2008
A new year, a new Advisor of the YearWith the new year comes the opening up of nominations for Senior Market Advisor's 2008 Advisor of the Year. As of Jan. 1, the official nomination form is "live" online at www.smaadvisorofyear.com. If you or an advisor you know deserves to be
January 01, 2008
Building strategic LTCI alliancesAdvisors who sell long term care insurance sometimes sound like evangelists for change who are frankly tired of crying in the wilderness. The wilderness in this case is LTCI sales, which dropped each year since 2000, until this year. Now
January 01, 2008
Preparing yourself for partnership policiesQ. I'm in a state where LTC partnership policies will be soon introduced. What information and advice can you provide about who should buy these policies, who needs to take the training and other important details? A. If you have not been hearing
January 01, 2008
On the HookJoshua Hatfield Smith, a planner with SPC Financial Services in Rockville, Maryland, points out that umbrella policy coverage can be complicated for unmarried partners. Hatfield...
January 01, 2008
Innovation in InsuranceRetirement income distribution -- it's the talk of the trade. And no one is in a better position to capitalize on the ?ber-dollar opportunity than...