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Bay State Implements Health Plan Nondiscrimination Rules
By Staff WriterMassachusetts agencies are moving ahead with efforts to implement the state's health coverage access expansion program.The Massachusetts Division of Insurance has issued a bulletin that ...
April 13, 2007
Senior Healthcare To Market Great American ProductsAn insurer has tapped an outside distribution firm to help it sell supplemental health insurance products.Great American Financial Resources Inc., Cincinnati, has hired the Senior ...
April 12, 2007
Vertafore Buys Insurance Software MakerVertafore Inc. has acquired ImageRight, an insurance document management and workflow software vendor.ImageRight will continue to operate in its current office in Conyers, Ga., according ...
April 11, 2007
Securities Status Decision Keeps Rider Suit AliveA federal appeals court has decided that, under federal securities laws, a children's term life rider should be reviewed separately from the primary insured's variable ...
April 11, 2007
Marketing Group Sets Its CourseThe officers and board members of the Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association recently set association priorities for 2007-2008.LIDMA, Woodstock, Ga., founded in 2007-2008, represents producers, ...
April 10, 2007
Senate Looks At Health Carrier Market ConcentrationThe Senate Judiciary Committee is studying competition levels in the health insurance industry.The committee convened a field hearing Monday in Philadelphia to review recently announced ...
April 10, 2007
Jackson National Moves Denver OperationsA U.S. unit of a U.K. company is expanding its presence out west.Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Lansing, Mich., an arm of Prudential P.L.C., London, ...
April 10, 2007
MassMutual Ties Plan Campaign To TV CampaignMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is trying to market harder to the 250,000 members of retirement plans that the company already administers.The retirement services arm ...