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Posted today (16 hours ago)
The New Jersey-based credit rating agency, which specializing in healthcare service industries, cited First Insurance for its healthy earnings, strong brand-name recognition and diverse product offeri...
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Posted today (10 hours ago)

Organizations Take Stand Against NY No-fault System
Insurance Networking News
Currently 12 states and Puerto Rico have no-fault auto insurance laws. Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have verbal thresholds. ...


Tags:   no-fault, ny1, property, auto
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Posted today (12 hours ago)

NY Agent Disclosure Rule Revisions Secured, Says IIABNY
National Underwriter Property And Casualty Insurance News
New rules were developed by the department in the wake of the 2005 New York attorney general's investigation revealing that some commercial insurance ...


Tags:   ny1, commercial
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Posted today (13 hours ago)
A former Lancaster County, Pa., doctor, charged in March 2009 with bilking patients and insurers of $8 million, pleaded guilty in federal court in Harrisburg, Pa., to charges of health care fraud and mail fraud.


Former Pa. doctor pleads guilty to $8 million insurance scam originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   billing, mid atlantic, medicaid, claims, fraud, sylvia h. rambo, pa1, highmark, criminal, saroj kumar parida, ifa, mail fraud, capital blue cross, healthamerica
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Posted today (13 hours ago)
Maryland consumers searching for Medicare plans from CareFirst can now shop for coverage through an online health insurance marketplace.


eHealth enters Maryland market offering CareFirst Medicare plans originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   technology, md, ehealthmedicare, ifa, ehealthinsurance.com, carefirst, bruce telkamp, medicare, jeff valentine
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Posted yesterday.
The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System will conduct its National Salute to Veterans this week. Visiting hours and musical performances will be from 1 to 3 p.m. at each division.
Tags:   pa
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Posted yesterday.
Philadelphia Business Journal recently asked the region's 50 largest employers about their hiring plans for the first six months of the year. The results are encouraging! Over 6000 job openings ar...
Tags:   pa, pa1
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Posted yesterday.

Inflated Medical Bills and Bogus Claims Drive Up Cost of No-Fault Auto ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Fraud and abuse in New York's no-fault auto insurance system cost consumers and insurers nearly $230 million in 2009, constituting a "fraud tax" of $1561, ...
Paul Mueller guest column: Proposed insurance overhaul
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Tags:   no-fault, ny1, property, auto
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Posted yesterday.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on the evening of February 12th . This spectacular runway show and auction will be held in aid of CARE to raise crucial funds towards rebuilding Haiti’s healthcare sys...
Tags:   new york city, ny1, nyc
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Posted on Feb 6, 2010 (2 days ago)

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A Financial Crisis That Just Keeps Moving
Huffington Post (blog)
But don't give up hope because Obama has a plan in his new budget to nationalize everyones 401K and IRA. This will give the federal government 3 trillion ...
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Tags:   ny1, 401k
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Posted on Feb 6, 2010 (2 days ago)
Mediabistro What has been the hallmark of Barrack Obama's entire political life, double talk, reversing himself on a dime on any policy that was supposed to be based on some conviction or simply, to p...
Tags:   new york city, ny1, nyc
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Posted on Feb 6, 2010 (2 days ago)
. Many first time homebuyers often wonder what this policy covers, how much it costs and how to find a provider.When financing a home, a homeowners insurance policy is usually a mandatory requirement ...
Tags:   pa, pa1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Greensburg Salem and other Westmoreland County school districts will be getting an unexpected windfall from a fund balance left in an insurance consortium formed nearly two decades ago. Greensburg Sa...
Tags:   pa
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Staff Reports Members of the registered nurse bargaining unit represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East approved a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with Niagara Falls Memori...
Tags:   ny1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Senator Charles E. Schumer (D - NY) Friday announced that he is introducing the Cheaper Car Insurance Act of 2010, legislation that would set up new federal penalties for auto insurance fraud.This bil...
Tags:   new york city, ny1, nyc
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Webster Financial Corp., the bank's holding company, said the subcontractor made partial restitution and maintains an insurance policy that would more than cover the maximum potential exposure of $11 ...
Tags:   ny1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)

UK Firm Jumps Pond to New Jersey, Snags Five Connell Foley Insurance Lawyers
The American Lawyer
Burns said the firm was drawn to the expertise of McNally, Almeida and their associates in so-called Bermuda Form arbitrations, a niche practice area ...

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Tags:   mid atlantic, bernuda, captives
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
The lower portion of the James River is open to oyster harvesting following a 10-day closure, the state Department of Health announced today. The closure, which included part of the Rappahannock Rive...
Tags:   va1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Business groups say a timely compromise on proposed changes to the state unemployment system is unlikely to be found, as work to build consensus among stakeholders was slow Friday. Business and labor...
Tags:   md
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)

Executives: Competition Driving Down Prices in the D&O Market:
Insurance News Net (press release)
... senior vice president of Arch Insurance Group, and a speaker at the New York conference. But the increased competition is good news for D&O buyers, ...


Tags:   ny1, d&o
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
Several insurance trade groups spoke to New York legislators about the need for no-fault auto insurance reform as state residents deal with record increases, spurred by an “epidemic” of fraud.


Fraud ‘epidemic’ targeted in hearing on N.Y. no-fault auto insurance originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   ny1, ifa
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
A series of consumer complaints resulted in a $750,000 fine against Aetna for violating New York insurance law in its administration of the Healthy NY program over a 21-month period.


Aetna pays $750,000 fine for errors in Healthy NY oversight originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   ny1, ifa
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
0 posts News outlets report on health care developments in Virginia, the District of Columbia, California, Iowa, Maryland, Maine and Michigan. The Virginia attorney general wants to increase access to...
Tags:   va1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
A former bookkeeper for a Bethlehem, Pa., insurance company recently was sentenced to up to 32 months in state prison for taking nearly $400,000 from her employer by forging 246 checks over seven years.


Pa. insurer’s bookkeeper gets 32-month sentence for 246 check forgeries originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   jacqueline anderson, restitution, woodring-roberts corp., ifa, mid atlantic, property, leonard zito, fraud, legal, pa1
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (3 days ago)
A Maryland House member is trying to preserve insurance coverage for early breast cancer screenings in the wake of a November 2009 report that disputed the usefulness of those tests.


Maryland legislator wants early breast cancer screening mandate originally reported at IFAwebnews.


Tags:   md, joseline pena-melnyk, u.s. preventative services task force, breast cancer, mammograms, legislation, bill casey, carefirst, ifa, american cancer society, donna stifler, shane d. watkins, elaine koogler
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