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Health Carrier Cuts 5% Of Workforce (Corrected)
By Staff WriterWellCare Health Plans Inc. is eliminating about 208 of its 3,800 positions, the company says.WellCare, Tampa, Fla., a company that helps run Medicaid plans and ...
May 23, 2008
Earnings: Independence, Life ExchangeNet income fell slightly, but health and medical stop-loss profit margins were stronger at Independence Holding Co. during the first quarter, the company says.Here is ...
May 22, 2008
Fitch: Insurers Can Weather Commercial Mortgage SlumpPresident Bush today signed a bill supported by the insurance industry that will bar employers and health insurers from discriminating against individuals based on the ...
May 22, 2008
Bush Signs Genetic Testing BillPresident Bush today signed a bill supported by the insurance industry that will bar employers and health insurers from discriminating against individuals based on the ...
May 22, 2008
Stay fit, save on premiumsIf people were offered a financial incentive for staying healthy, would that be a major motivation in eating better, exercising more and maintaining a healthy lifestyle?"Wellness for Life," a new program and rider made available by Aviva, hopes to
May 22, 2008
Reverse mortgage mythsThe bank takes the house or the borrower can lose the house. With a reverse mortgage, the borrower retains title to the home throughout the life of the reverse mortgage. The borrower cannot, as a result of the reverse mortgage, be forced out
May 22, 2008
Top five retirement risksInflation - For most retirees, Social Security is their source of inflation-adjusted income, according to The Society of Actuaries. Outliving assets - A 65-year-old American man can expect to live 17 years on average, while a wo
May 22, 2008
Explore your alternatives in uncertain timesUncertainty surrounds individual investors and their investment decisions. Economic growth has slowed, but we haven't hit a technical recession and don't know if we will. Analysts continue to tell us that the subprime mess is not over and home