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Find out who has received the most money from the health care reform law’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program
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WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has stopped paying new claims under a $5 billion program created by the health care reform law that partially reimburses employers and other organizations…
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With its decision to freeze its defined benefit pension plan covering salaried employees in the United States, General Motors Co. joins a long list of big companies that have done the same.
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WASHINGTON—A provision in the health care reform law that requires employers with more than 200 employees to automatically enroll new employees in one of their health care plans will not go into effect until 2014, federal regulators say.
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In our latest weekly video, we examine how organizations are using alternative communications strategies to inform employees about changes in their benefits plans.
DETROIT (Reuters)—General Motors Co. said on Wednesday it will end traditional defined benefit pension plans for its U.S. white-collar employees, seen as consistent with its goal of lowering pension risk for investors.
WASHINGTON—Under a new temporary voluntary compliance program, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. will waive penalties on employers who have never paid federally required pension insurance premiums.
DETROIT—The funded levels of General Motors Co.'s U.S. pension plans declined in 2011 as lower interest rates, which boosted the value of plan liabilities, offset strong investment results.
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By Fred Trotter Yesterday, one of the founders of Twitter, Biz Stone, gave the opening keynote at HIMSS. This is probably going to be the best keynote at HIMSS, followed by a speech from Dr. Farzad Mostashari, which will also be excellent. It…
A Kaiser Family Foundation policy brief provides an overview of the case before the Supreme Court that challenges the health care reform law’s individual mandate, the key constitutional questions to be decided and the legal arguments made…
Starting on Jan. 1, employers operating in San Francisco have had to comply with new restrictions on the use of health reimbursement arrangements to satisfy the city’s health care spending law.
U.S. health care expenditures continue to ease, as spending in 2010 rose a modest 3.9%, a dramatic showdown compared with the explosive growth in expenditures of just a few years ago, according to a government report.
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Coming and Goings
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Lincoln Financial Distributors, a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corp., has named Radnor, Pa.-based Richard Aneser as…
Chicago-based Dennis M. Donahue has been named by HUB International Midwest as executive vp, employee benefits practice …
Leesburg, Va.-based John Ribble has been named by Armfield, Harrison &Thomas Inc. as principal. Previously, he was…
Leesburg, Va.-based Jenni Bickerstaff has been named by Armfield, Harrison &Thomas Inc. as principal. Previously, she…
USI Insurance Services L.L.C. has named Susan Fanciullo as senior vp of operations in its New York office. Previously, she was the regional vp of…
The Worldwide Broker Network has named Willoughby, Ohio-based John Wepler as an associate member. He is currently the CEO of Marsh, Berry & Co. Inc.…
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Starr Cos. has named New York-based X. Rick Nui as senior managing director of Starr Strategic Partners. Previously, he was chief marketing officer-U.…
USI Insurance Services L.L.C. has named Robert Reers as president in its New York office. Previously, he was the national employee benefit practice…
United Educators Insurance has named Chevy Chase, Md.-based Frank Neugebauer as chief information officer. Previously he was chief information…
The Graham Co. has named Philadelphia-based Michael J. Mitchell as vice chairman. Previously, he was executive vp.
The Worldwide Broker Network has named Wilton, Conn.-based John Dempsey as an associate member. He is currently the CEO of Dempsey Partners L.L.C.…
Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Hilton Brown as vp of claims management for its Los Angeles and Irvine, Calif. offices. Previously, he…
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The Worldwide Broker Network has named Palo Alto, Calif.-based James R. Woods as an associate member. He is currently general counsel at Dewey &…
The Graham Co. has named Philadelphia-based Kenneth L. Ewell as president and chief operating officer. Previously, he was executive vp.
Zurich Financial Services Group has named Patrick Lundy as chief agent and CEO for Zurich Canada. Previously, he was the head of its healthcare…
The Worldwide Broker Network has named New York-based John Kelly as an associate member. He is currently the CEO of Hanover Stone Partners L.L.C.…
John L. Wortham & Son L.P. has named Houston-based Wesley K. Bryan as managing director-marine and energy. Previously, he was associate director. …
John L. Wortham & Son L.P. has named Dallas-based Craig Manning as managing director-commercial claims. Previously, he was associate director.
Business Insurance Feature
Many organizations use captive insurers to cover their P/C risks, and now several dozen are using them to cover employee benefits exposures too. Thanks to the efforts of several cutting-edge programs during the past several years, many employers now have the option of expanding the risks they place in their captives. In this latest white paper, captives experts Donald Riggin and Karin Landry explain what an organization needs to do to add benefits to their captives and the advantages of doing so.
This on-demand webinar covers the latest trends for brokers who aim to help their middle-market clients explore alternative risk financing options, including captives and self-insured arrangements, for their health care employee benefit programs. Learn how to advise clients considering traditional self-funding of health benefits and/or "blended" programs. Click the headline above to register.
