The Principal Financial Group has introduced a voluntary critical illness insurance to help employees fill the gap in financial protection, due to added expenses that are not covered by medical insurance. Covering five most common ...
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Q. My wife just got laid off from her job, which has been supplying our health insurance for the past 15 years. I'm switching to my employer's plan but it says that pre-existing conditions won't be covered for the first 12 months. My wife ...
Novo Nordisk announced today the introduction of HemaGo, a mobile application (app) to help individuals with hemophilia and their caregivers monitor the details of treatment, including medications, dosing, bleed information and the impact ...
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Life and health insurance marketing group AmeriLife has purchased Arizona-based marketing organization Unkefer&Associates,which offers products for annuity and life insurance sales agents. The acquisition,which is the second similar ...
Do you think of taking a daily multivitamin as a form of "health insurance"? More evidence suggests that you may be wasting your money. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School gave either a ...
Q. I am 68 and have only Medicare Part A. My sole source of income is $1,062 a month from Social Security. I'm in good health but concerned about future medical needs. Are there any plans for lower-income people? A.Yes, and it's a shame ...
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Medicare beneficiaries whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to sign up for Medicare health and drug plans after the open enrollment deadline of Dec. 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ...
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Q. I heard that the Medicare Part B premium was going to go up to $120 in 2013 and $247 in 2014 as part of Obamacare, and that this was kept under wraps so as not to influence the outcome of the 2012 election. True or false? A. I've been ...
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The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) has launched its next generation guaranteed withdrawal benefit (GWB) solution for customers. Dubbed Class Plus 2, the newly launched solution is specifically designed to address the changing ...
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Auto-Owners Life Insurance has selected a new end-to-end system, MphasiS-Wyde Wynsure software, for its life policy issuance and administration, billing, claims and reinsurance. Selected against several other competing vendors, the ...
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Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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US-based underwriter Fidelity National Financial (FNF) has acquired Digital Insurance, which provides health insurance distribution and benefits management for small and mid-sized businesses, for an undisclosed amount. Commenting on the ...
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Bermuda-based Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company (Athene Annuity) has completed the acquisition of US-based Presidential Life, which markets and sells various fixed annuity, life insurance and accident and health insurance products. ...
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The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising ...
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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