The Visa credit card outfit has certainly got the retail scene abuzz with news it will launch a "digital wallet" in Australia by Christmas. The e-wallet, dubbed V.me, will henceforth store all your cards in digital form, probably on your ...
Howden Broking Group has purchased a 25% shareholding in Chilean insurance broker, Patagonia Corredores de Seguros (PCS), for an undisclosed sum. Based in Santiago, PCS provides an array of property, energy, liability, construction, ...
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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 ...
Global pharmaceutical company Eisai has rolled out Aricept Dry Syrup 1%, a new medicine for Alzheimer's disease treatment Aricept (donepezil hydrochloride) in Japan. The formulation received Japan manufacturing and marketing authorization ...
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Global talent, retirement and health solutions business Aon Hewitt has formed a partnership with eHealth, an online health insurance exchange, to provide enrollment services to its health insurance clients. Under the partnership, ...
From time to time I hear from readers who are convinced the Affordable Care Act will ruin us all financially. Not happening so far. Instead, it has already saved consumers billions. Exhibit A: In 2012, the law directly saved consumers ...
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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 ...
Digital Benefit Advisors has launched Digital Benefits Marketplace, a private exchange to help employers of all sizes to control benefits costs. The exchange, which will be introduced in the coming months in several US states, will offer ...
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Alegeus Technologies has partnered with corporate payment solutions provider, WEX, to launch a new virtual card payment method for the post-adjudication claims market. Designed to serve as an alternative to automated clearing house (ACH) ...
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Florida-based Cash & Associates has inked an agreement with Digital Insurance, a US-based employee benefits-only agency, to merge its health insurance and benefits division into the Orlando office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA). The ...
Tags: Insurance, Digital Insurance, Service
HMRC's new Real-Time Information (RTI) system that organisations are obliged to use to submit their staff Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) tax - introduced in April - is struggling, with companies claiming that key information is being omitted or ...
Google Glass should be banned entirely, according to one in five UK and US adults who took part in cloud hosting provider Rackspace's new survey. The survey, dubbed "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to Productivity", was ...
Tags: Google Glass, Cloud, Wearable Technology
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services is set to launch a new universal life insurance product designed to allow customers to benefit from premium reductions, if long-term interest rates increases. Scheduled to be launched ...
Employee benefits unit Lockton Benefit Group has joined hands with SelectQuote Benefit Solutions to provide its clients a private insurance exchange for retiree medical benefits, known as Lockton Select Marketplace. Lockton Benefit Group ...