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LTC Partnership Course To Begin Certifying Agents
By Trevor ThomasAmerica's Health Insurance Plans has launched a new training program to help qualify producers to sell long term care partnership policies.The AHIP Center for Insurance ...
April 08, 2007
Stark Introduces Universal Health Care BillLegislation creating a universal healthcare system that would be based on the existing Medicare program as well as employer-based coverage has been introduced by Rep. ...
April 08, 2007
Why LTC Producers Don't ProduceThey may be long term care insurance agents on paper, but in terms of actual LTC policies sold, many producers just aren't producing, experts at ...
April 06, 2007
Obama Enters LTC FraySen. Barack Obama, a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, is calling for a wide-ranging investigation of the long term care insurance industry.Obama, D-Ill., ...
April 05, 2007
Subcommittee Chair Offers Health ProposalA Democrat has unveiled a bill that would keep the current employer-sponsored health coverage system but create a government insurance program for people without group ...
April 05, 2007
Regulators Defend Record On LTC OversightState insurance regulators are promising to look into allegations that some long term care insurance policyholders have had trouble collecting on claims.A reporter wrote about ...
April 05, 2007
Pregnancy Causes Bigger Share Of LTD ClaimsDisability insurers may be getting slightly fewer long-lasting claims for bad backs and somewhat more for conditions related to childbearing.Researchers at Unum, Chattanooga, Tenn., have ...
April 05, 2007
MetLife Adds Insured Dental Plan For RetireesA large insurer is getting ready to cover the aging teeth of the baby boomers.A unit of MetLife Inc., New York, has introduced a full-service ...