Insurance Industry
A few weeks ago, the future suddenly looked a lot more expensive to Caren Rugg. The energet... Prescription for Change...
A few weeks ago, the future suddenly looked a lot more expensive to Caren Rugg.
The energetic community service coordinator for Franklin County's Agency on Aging caters to senior citizens, helping them with issues such as health care.
Rugg's work involves finding solutions for area seniors on tight budgets. But now it was her turn; Rugg faced the prospect of losing her health insu...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 - The number of American children without health care coverage has been slowl... Health Coverage of Young W
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 - The number of American children without health care coverage has been slowly but steadily declining over the past several years even as health care costs continue to rise and fewer employers provide insurance, creating a breach that states have stepped in to fill with new programs and fresh money.
The overall ranks of the uninsured continue to swell, to nearly 46 mil...
GARDENA, Calif. - At the edge of insolvency, this Los Angeles suburb has a surplus of just one th... Debt drowns California cit
GARDENA, Calif. - At the edge of insolvency, this Los Angeles suburb has a surplus of just one thing: frustration.
Banks could slap Gardena this week with hefty penalties for failing to pay $25.6 million in debt. Most of the long-overdue bill, equal to more than three-fourths of the annual municipal budget, dates to a decision a dozen years ago that many see as reckless: Despite repeated ...
Dr. James Kmetzo knows that Diltiazem is usually the drug of choice for high blood pressure.<... Multiple forms of drugs causin
Dr. James Kmetzo knows that Diltiazem is usually the drug of choice for high blood pressure.
But then his choices explode. Cardizem, Dilacor and Tiazac are all brand names for Diltiazem. But should he prescribe Cardizem CD, Cardizem SR, Cardizem LA, Dilacor XR or Tiazac? All four come in varying doses, some taken once a day, some twice, some crushable, others not.
Most of the time, ...
Globeandmail.com > Today's Paper > Business > Article The auto-didact, Julian... These entrepreneurs can show us t
Globeandmail.com > Today's Paper > Business > Article
The auto-didact, Julianne Bien, is president of a company that designs coloured lights used in alternative healing. She was a nominee but not a winner at an evening designed to celebrate five female entrepreneurs at different stages of their careers, from start-up through sustainment and on to lifetime achievement.
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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Mortgage and insurance network slashed its losses over the last year and be... Prestbury trades profitabl
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Mortgage and insurance network slashed its losses over the last year and began trading profitably at the end of the period.
In a trading update ahead of its final results, Prestbury said turnover increased 58% to £8.2m from £5.2m a year earlier, while losses were slashed to £0.6m compared with £1.8m.
Prestbury added that it began trading profitably for the last...
UK's Turner Commission to cost 50,000 jobs, UK PLC 4 bln a year - Deloitte LONDON (AFX) - ... UK's Turner Commission to cos
UK's Turner Commission to cost 50,000 jobs, UK PLC 4 bln a year - Deloitte
LONDON (AFX) - The recommendations of the Turner Pensions Commission, if implemented, would put as many as 50,000 life and pensions jobs at risk and cost UK businesses 4 bln stg a year, at least in the short term, a leading accounting firm said today.
Deloitte reckons that the life and pensions industry coul...
Speaking at the first Middle East forum on information technology (IT) in healthcare, organized b... 'IT essential for the
Speaking at the first Middle East forum on information technology (IT) in healthcare, organized by IIR, Ms. Ranjana Maitra, Chief Operating Officer, Wipro Healthcare IT Ltd, said, “Healthcare industry in the Middle East is poised to take gigantic strides by adopting technology. IT brings the promise of clinical, operational and financial efficiency to all participants - patients, doctors, hospi...
Jefferson Pilot Financial, one of the nation's leading providers of universal and variable univ... Jefferson Pilot Financial U
Jefferson Pilot Financial, one of the nation's leading providers of universal and variable universal life insurance, fixed annuities and employee benefits, today announced the introduction of “Paycheck Plus,” a comprehensive package of voluntary income protection benefits that provides four lines of coverage within a single group rate.
OMAHA, NE November 22, 2005 -- Jefferson Pilot Fina...
A rather suspect insurance claim has landed me with premiums at about four times what they should... Insurance firm stands behi
A rather suspect insurance claim has landed me with premiums at about four times what they should be.
I was insured with Wawanesa, but earlier this year I was informed by my agent that because of too many claims I was being cancelled and that I would have to move into facility insurance at a cost of more than $4,500 a year.
I couldn't believe what was happening and when I asked for...
