Health insurer Health Insurance Innovations (HII) has rolled out HealtheMed STM plan (Short-Term Medical) in collaboration with HCC Life Insurance Company (HCC), which caters medical stop loss, group term and short term medical insurance. ...
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Health insurer United Healthcare has decided to stop marketing of individual insurance policies in California after 2013 as it intends to concentrate on its core business of group plans for large and small employers. Commenting on the ...
US-based health care benefits company Aetna is planning to stop issuing health care products to individual consumers in California at the end of 2013. The health insurer, which notified California's insurance regulator about its impending ...
Health insurer Aetna has launched a new product to help mid-sized employers offer health benefits directly to employees and also assume the financial risk for their employees' claims. Known as Aetna Funding Advantage (AFA), the new ...
Life and health insurer Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services has launched a new iPhone application for its group insurance customers. Dubbed IA Mobile, the newly introduced application is designed to let iPhone users to ...
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Raffles Health Insurance (RHI) in collaboration with international health insurer Bupa has unveiled two new international health insurance plans, aimed at next generation expatriates and international businesses in the Asia Pacific region. ...
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IBM's Watson supercomputer has gone from game show king to doctor's office helper. You may recall the epic man vs. machine battle two years ago in which the supercomputer beat former champions on the show Jeopardy. Well, now there's a ...
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US-based health insurer WellPoint (WLP) has named Joseph Swedish as the company's new chief executive officer effective from 25 March 2013. Swedish, who replaces interim chief executive officer John Cannon, joins WLP from Trinity Health ...
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US health insurer Aetna has introduced a new product offering for members of the Flexible Benefits Plans (FBP) Employers Association. As part of the affinity program, the company will make its individual, small group and Aetna Voluntary ...
Life and health insurer, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services has introduced a new and innovative retirement savings statement for its group retirement plan members. The new statement is expected to serve as a simple, easy ...
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Health insurer Aetna has signed a four-year reinsurance arrangement with Vitality Re IV Limited, a Cayman Islands domiciled exempted company. Signed as part of Aetna's long-term capital management strategy, the agreement enables the ...
Canada's life and health insurer, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services is planning to add the new Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) to its offerings as soon as it is launched by the federal government. Addition of PRPP ...
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US-based health insurer WellPoint (WLP) has closed the acquisition of Amerigroup, in a bid to effectively serve the growing Medicaid population in the country. The acquirer expects the acquisition of Amerigroup to boost its core business ...
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US health insurer WellPoint has agreed to shell out$90m as a compensate amount to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 700,000 former members of Anthem Insurance Companies. WellPoint,the corporate parent of Anthem ...
US based health insurer UnitedHealth has entered into an agreement with Brazil's Amil Participações, pursuant to which 90% of the 359 million outstanding common shares of the latter is likely to be purchased for approximately ...
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