Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Publish or perish: Five tips to get published
By C.j. HaydenThe more writing you publish and the longer your work has been out there, the more you will increase your visibility, credibility and reputation as an expert.
December 21, 2009
Verisk Health Adds Actuarial ToolA company has introduced a system that can help users analyze commercial health plan claims risk.
December 21, 2009
Highline Data: Health Profits FalterU.S. health insurers faced a drop in underwriting gains and net income during the first 3 quarters of 2009.
December 21, 2009
CMS: 'Cadillac' Plan Tax Could Bend Spending CurveImposing a 40% excise tax on relatively high-cost, "Cadillac" health plans might be fairly effective at holding down health care spending, a government forecaster says.
December 21, 2009
Dewald To Lead LIFEJack Dewald will take over as chairman of the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education board Jan. 1, 2010.
December 21, 2009
Smarr: Senate Should Fix Self-Gutting Malpractice ProvisionA proposed addition to H.R. 3590, the Senate health bill, would encourage states to set up new systems for handling medical malpractice claims - but it also would let claimants opt out of using the new systems.
December 21, 2009
ACLI: Study Shows CLASS Act Won't WorkThe American Council of Life Insurers is pointing to a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as confirming its view that a long term care entitlement program contained in the latest Senate health care reform package won't work.
December 21, 2009
The Evolution of Automated Underwriting Software Systems1st Generation: These are black box systems which were probably enforced/encouraged on an insurer's underwriting team to ensure consistency as well as a bare minimum standard of underwriting decision making.