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• Health insurance comes at a cost but so does not having it - Marketplace.org

  13-07-2017 23:26
  
  Marketplace.org
  Health insurance comes at a cost but so does not having it
  Marketplace.org
  A healthcare reform specialist helps people select insurance plans at a free Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fair on November 2013. - David McNew/Getty Images. As the the newly revised Senate health care bill is floundering and Americans still have no ...and more »
  
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• New Alaska political groups could support initiative campaigns on Medicaid, insurance - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-07-2017 23:14
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  New Alaska political groups could support initiative campaigns on Medicaid, insurance
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Two newly registered political groups could support a pair of initiative campaigns aimed at Alaska's insurance industry and Medicaid health care program, but the consultant involved with the groups is revealing few details. "Defend Alaska's Care" and ...
  
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• The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance Will Advance Use Cases For The Insurance Industry - ETHNews

  13-07-2017 23:11
  
  ETHNews
  The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance Will Advance Use Cases For The Insurance Industry
  ETHNews
  Founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and insurance knowledge group The Institutes announced on July 12, 2017, the formation of a blockchain coalition focused on the risk management and insurance industry. Named The Institutes ...
  
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• 29 people charged with insurance fraud felonies in Pennsylvania, 13 from Western Pa. - WTAE Pittsburgh

  13-07-2017 22:51
  
  WTAE Pittsburgh
  29 people charged with insurance fraud felonies in Pennsylvania, 13 from Western Pa.
  WTAE Pittsburgh
  Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced criminal charges against 29 people Thursday following investigations by the Office of Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section. The charges are part of a sweep conducted in July and June by the Insurance Fraud ...
  2 Lebanon women among 29 people charged with insurance fraud by PA Attorney GeneralFOX43.comall 2 news articles &raq
  
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• Don't let insurance companies off the hook on affordability - Detroit Free Press

  13-07-2017 21:20
  Don't let insurance companies off the hook on affordability
  Detroit Free Press
  To fix what's wrong with the Affordable Healthcare Act, insurance companies have to make health insurance affordable to those not getting their healthcare from an employer, be it corporate or government. Rand Paul has stated the Insurance companies ...
  
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• The New Health Insurance Bill Faces The Same Old Roadblocks - FiveThirtyEight

  13-07-2017 21:19
  
  FiveThirtyEight
  The New Health Insurance Bill Faces The Same Old Roadblocks
  FiveThirtyEight
  The revised Senate Republican health insurance bill released Thursday makes a major change from the previous version in an effort to placate conservative lawmakers. But the new version still includes the major cuts to Medicaid that more moderate ...and more »
  
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• EverGuard Buys West-based Anchor Bay’s Restaurant, Bar And Tavern Program

  13-07-2017 21:04
  
  EverGuard Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Anchor Bay Insurance Managers’ restaurant, bar and tavern program. Anchor Bay is a provider of insurance products to the restaurant, bar and tavern industries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Colorado. Terms of the deal …
  
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• Insurance industry announcements - Press Herald

  13-07-2017 20:56
  
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  Insurance industry announcements
  Press Herald
  NEW HIRES n Tim McCarty joined Clark Insurance as the director of loss control services. McCarty, of Gorham, brings decades of national experience in the safety field and has twice been recognized by his peers as the Maine Chapter Safety Professional ...
  
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• Insider breach on global health insurance giant Bupa exposes data of 108000 customers - Healthcare IT News

  13-07-2017 20:18
  
  Healthcare IT News
  Insider breach on global health insurance giant Bupa exposes data of 108000 customers
  Healthcare IT News
  A Bupa employee -- who has since been fired -- copied private information from global health insurance policies, which cover those who frequently travel or work overseas. By Jessica Davis. July 13, 2017. 11:40 AM. Share. data breach. The personal ...
  Bupa data breach affects 500000 insurance customersBBC News
  Bupa: Rogue staffer stole health insurance holders' persona
  
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• Want National Health Insurance? Dump the Term 'Single Payer'—and 'Medicare for All' Too - The Nation.

  13-07-2017 19:55
  
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  Want National Health Insurance? Dump the Term 'Single Payer'—and 'Medicare for All' Too
  The Nation.
  “Medicare for all” is better than “single payer,” but better yet is “guaranteed lifetime coverage for all.” By Trudy Lieberman. Today 1:52 pm. Facebook; Twitter; Email; Print. Protect Republican Health Care. Activists protest against the Republican ...and more »
  
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• Iowa insurance division to hold public hearings on Affordable Care Act fix - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

  13-07-2017 19:53
  
  The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
  Iowa insurance division to hold public hearings on Affordable Care Act fix
  The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
  The Iowa Insurance Division is seeking feedback on its proposed short-term fix to the state's individual insurance market through three public hearings, including one in Cedar Rapids. In June, Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen submitted the proposed ...and more »
  
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• Plan aimed at stabilizing Alaska insurance market approved - KFQD

  13-07-2017 19:38
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  Plan aimed at stabilizing Alaska insurance market approved
  KFQD
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved a proposal intended to help stabilize Alaska's individual health insurance market. State leaders hailed the news. But U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said that work still ...and more »
  
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• Study: Californians Would Pay $1.9B More for Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax - Insurance Journal

  13-07-2017 19:30
  
  Insurance Journal
  Study: Californians Would Pay $1.9B More for Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax
  Insurance Journal
  Californians would face $1.9 billion in higher insurance costs if Congress passes a border adjustment tax as part of federal tax reform, according to a study issued today by the R Street Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. According to the ...
  
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• Study: Californians Would Pay $1.9B More for Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax

  13-07-2017 19:30
  
  Californians would face $1.9 billion in higher insurance costs if Congress passes a border adjustment tax as part of federal tax reform, according to a study issued today by the R Street Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. According to …
  
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• Threlkeld Insurance partners with Employee Benefits Consulting to form new entity - Tyler Morning Telegraph

  13-07-2017 19:27
  
  Threlkeld Insurance partners with Employee Benefits Consulting to form new entity
  Tyler Morning Telegraph
  Threlkeld & Co. Insurance has partnered with Employee Benefits Consulting LLC, to form a new entity, Threlkeld Benefits Partners LLC. EBC, owned by Rachel Means, is a Tyler company with connections in Houston and Dallas. Together, the firms will offer ...
  
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• A Wife Killed Her Husband For The Insurance Money, But The Ex-Wife Received The Payout - Vibe

  13-07-2017 19:16
  
  Vibe
  A Wife Killed Her Husband For The Insurance Money, But The Ex-Wife Received The Payout
  Vibe
  Nothing says romance like having your husband killed so you can collect his insurance money to pay down your debt. Uloma Curry-Walker was found guilty Friday (July 7) of aggravated murder, felonious assault and conspiracy in the Nov. 23, 2013 killing ...
  
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• Texas E&S Broker McClelland & Hine Promotes Barnes and Hine

  13-07-2017 18:55
  
  San Antonio-based managing general agent and excess and surplus (E&S) lines broker, McClelland and Hine Inc. (MHI), has promoted Lisa Barnes to the position of chief operating officer, and named Amicia Hine president and chief executive officer. Barnes, who holds …
  
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• New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas - Insurance Journal

  13-07-2017 18:41
  
  New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas
  Insurance Journal
  Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in Arkansas. In a press release, Kerr said “Arkansas is ...and more »
  
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• New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas

  13-07-2017 18:41
  
  Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in Arkansas. In a press release, Kerr said “Arkansas is the first state to …
  
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• 5 ways to strengthen a contractual risk transfer program

  13-07-2017 18:40
  
  Contractual risk transfer identifies critical exposures and assigns responsibility for preventing and paying for losses — but it’s not always an easy process.
  
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• Why Too Many Americans Don't Understand Their Insurance - HuffPost

  13-07-2017 18:31
  
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  Why Too Many Americans Don't Understand Their Insurance
  HuffPost
  There is no denying that insurance—home, car, or personal—has never provided the most inspiring or exciting source of conversation. These days, just coaxing new recruits into the insurance industry involves videos of zombies and free bacon. Consumers ...
  
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• Using banking technology to manage the insurance agency journey

  13-07-2017 18:30
  
  Taking your insurance agency from start-up to retirement is a journey. Effective cash management can make the process go more smoothly.
  
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• Missouri Jail Beating Lawsuit Settled for Nearly $440K

  13-07-2017 18:29
  
  A former inmate who alleged guards at a troubled jail in Kansas City, Mo., beat him so severely that he suffered nine broken ribs, fractured wrists and a collapsed lung has settled a lawsuit for $437,500. Jackson County agreed to …
  
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• Court: Insurer Must Pay Policy Limit in Wisconsin Parking Garage Death

  13-07-2017 18:26
  
  The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has upheld a $39 million jury verdict against the builder of a Milwaukee parking garage where a 15-year-old boy was killed in 2010 when a concrete slab fell. But the court said that Liberty Insurance …
  
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• Kansas Insurance Department Distributes $13.1 M to Firefighters Relief Fund

  13-07-2017 18:22
  
  The Kansas Insurance Department is currently making the annual funds distribution to state and local firefighter relief organizations. More than $13.1 million will be distributed among 562 local Firefighters Relief Associations (FRAs) across the state. “This fund assists firefighters and …
  
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• Albany foot doctor pleads guilty to Medicare, insurance fraud - Albany Times Union

  13-07-2017 17:54
  
  Albany foot doctor pleads guilty to Medicare, insurance fraud
  Albany Times Union
  A foot doctor with offices in Albany and Hudson pleaded guilty earlier this week to health-care fraud for illegally charging Medicare and private insurance companies for services he never provided, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern ...and more »
  
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• Kentucky Fines Car Plastic Maker Montaplast $21K Over 2 Worker Deaths

  13-07-2017 17:19
  
  A Kentucky county’s largest private employer has been fined $21,000 following the deaths of two employees in unrelated accidents last October. The State Journal obtained files through an open-records request that show the Kentucky Labor Cabinet’s Office of Occupational Safety …
  
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• McConnell to release new GOP health plan allowing bare-bones insurance policies - Washington Post

  13-07-2017 17:09
  
  Washington Post
  McConnell to release new GOP health plan allowing bare-bones insurance policies
  Washington Post
  Senate GOP leaders plan to unveil a revised health-care proposal Thursday that would allow insurers to sell austere plans that do not comply with requirements imposed under the Affordable Care Act, according to three Republicans familiar with the plans.
  Top health insurance lobbying group blasts 'Cruz provision' expected in GOP Obamacare-replacement billCNBC
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• Colorado’s Democratic Governor Hops on Global Climate Pact

  13-07-2017 17:09
  
  Colorado’s Democratic governor added his state to a dozen others endorsing the Paris global accord on climate change even as President Donald Trump withdraws the nation from the agreement. Gov. John Hickenlooper said the state would also set a goal …
  
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• Wyoming Wildfire Caused by Lightning, Investigators Say

  13-07-2017 17:06
  
  Investigators have determined that lightning ignited a wildfire that has burned about 3 square miles of timber in southeast Wyoming. The fire burning in the Keystone area of Medicine Bow National Forest began July 3. After growing quickly last week, …
  
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• As California Wildfire Wanes, Evacuees Return and Damage is Measured

  13-07-2017 17:04
  
  Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home. Authorities surveying the damage from a blaze in Northern California this week said …
  
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• 'Big Bang Theory' star Mayim Bialik returned to acting because she was 'running out of health insurance' - New York Daily News

  13-07-2017 16:59
  New York Daily News
  'Big Bang Theory' star Mayim Bialik returned to acting because she was 'running out of health insurance'
  New York Daily News
  Mayim Bialik, who plays the lovable and socially awkward neuroscientist Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler in “The Big Bang Theory,” told Peter Travers on his show “Popcorn” that she returned to acting to obtain health insurance. Bialik, a four-time Emmy nominee ...and more »
  
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• Top health insurance lobbying group blasts 'Cruz provision' expected in GOP Obamacare-replacement bill - CNBC

  13-07-2017 16:20
  
  CNBC
  Top health insurance lobbying group blasts 'Cruz provision' expected in GOP Obamacare-replacement bill
  CNBC
  The provision is expected to let insurers sell plans that don't comply with some key Obamacare rules. It could lead to lower premiums for healthy customers, but much higher premiums for sick ones. The insurance lobbying group AHIP says such a provision ...
  Don't Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than MedicaidNew York Times
  Sen. Mike Lee: Obamacare Is Like Car InsuranceNews
  
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• Hyperledger Project Releases Blockchain Code for Large Firms Building Software

  13-07-2017 16:07
  
  The Hyperledger Project, a group led by the Linux Foundation, has released its first blockchain code that can be used by large businesses to build software. The group, whose more than 120 members include International Business Machines Corp, Cisco Systems …
  
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• Everest Taps Farr to Lead Environmental Unit in North America; Adds McVay for Monoline

  13-07-2017 15:51
  
  Brian Farr has been named leader of the Environmental unit within Everest Insurance. Based in Everest’s Liberty Corner, N.J., office, Farr is charged with expanding the company’s environmental product breadth, appetite and distribution footprint in North America. Farr initially joined …
  
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• Truckers Win Fight to Keep Insurance Payouts Low - NBCNews.com

  13-07-2017 15:44
  
  NBCNews.com
  Truckers Win Fight to Keep Insurance Payouts Low
  NBCNews.com
  This article was produced in cooperation with FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization based in Pasadena, California, that focuses on public health, consumer and environmental issues. Graham Brown was headed to his job as a computer technician in ...and more »
  
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• Truckers Win Fight to Keep Insurance Payouts Low - NBC News - NBCNews.com

  13-07-2017 15:44
  
  NBCNews.com
  Truckers Win Fight to Keep Insurance Payouts Low - NBC News
  NBCNews.com
  For 34 years, the insurance limits for truck accidents have been kept at a low level. Truck drivers just won a government fight to keep them from going up.and more »
  
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• Connecticut Firefighter Fired After Workers’ Compensation Investigation

  13-07-2017 15:34
  
  A Connecticut fire chief says a firefighter has been fired following an investigation into alleged workers’ compensation fraud. In a statement issued Tuesday, Hartford Fire Chief Reginald Freeman says the investigation found “clear evidence” of workers’ compensation abuse. The Hartford Courant …
  
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• The American Health Care System Has Lots of Problems. Here's When They Started - TIME

  13-07-2017 15:25
  
  TIME
  The American Health Care System Has Lots of Problems. Here's When They Started
  TIME
  With Senate Republicans planning to introduce a new version of a health care bill on Thursday, in their latest attempt to find a way to fulfill the promise to repeal former President Obama's signature health care law, it's as clear as ever that, in the ...
  
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• It’s Not True that Marijuana Dispensaries Increase Crime, Say Researchers

  13-07-2017 15:22
  
  A new study published in the July issue of the Journal of Urban Economics finds that contrary to popular belief, medical marijuana dispensaries (MMDs) reduce crime in their immediate areas. In the study, “Going to pot? The impact of dispensary closures on crime,” …
  
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• Reliance Partners Expands Presence in Northeast with Fourth Office Location

  13-07-2017 15:04
  
  Reliance Partners, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based provider of commercial insurance focused on the transportation and logistics space, has announced the opening of its Buffalo, N.Y., location. Rob Anderson will lead the new Reliance operation. As a Buffalo native, Anderson has been …
  
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• Hamilton’s Macia Returns to AIG to Head Tech-Driven Subsidiary

  13-07-2017 15:03
  
  Seraina (Maag) Macia, chief executive officer of Hamilton USA, which AIG is acquiring, is returning to American International Group (AIG) under its new CEO, Brian Duperreault. Macia has been named executive vice president and CEO of a new planned subsidiary …
  
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• No health insurance needed to see Dr. Chris Larson — an Austin physician at vanguard of new health care model - Austin Business Journal

  13-07-2017 14:11
  No health insurance needed to see Dr. Chris Larson — an Austin physician at vanguard of new health care model
  Austin Business Journal
  Dr. Chris Larson owns Euphora Health, a direct primary care clinic on West 38th Street in… more. Arnold Wells/Staff. Direct primary care abandons the "fee-for-service" model prevalent in American health care and instead asks patients to pay a monthly ...
  
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• Life insurance needs will change over time… so be prepared - Gulf Breeze News

  13-07-2017 14:05
  
  Life insurance needs will change over time… so be prepared
  Gulf Breeze News
  If you're going to achieve all your financial goals, such as sending your kids to college, retiring in comfort and leaving a legacy, you will need to save and invest throughout your lifetime. However, to truly complete your financial picture, you'll ...
  
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