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Concern Grows Among California Employers About Downside of Cost-Sharing
Harris Interactive suggests. Though still cited by a majority of employers as a necessary strategy to bring health-care costs under control, cost-sharing with employees was ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 7, 2005
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Malpractice Costs Aren't High Priority With Most Voters, Survey Shows
Congress last year (BestWire, Jan. 5, 2005) -- came in 11th on a list a 12 items that people thought the administration should address. While it wasn't high on the list of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 18, 2005
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Life Insurance Applications in North America Fall 4.7% in November
North American risk managers. Similarly, the drop in 2003 year-to-date numbers for the United States and Canada were 4% and 3.5% respectively, the company said. MIB customers ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 17, 2004
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Aon: Demand for Terror Coverage Has Doubled
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act swiftly. Fifty-seven percent of the more than 500 companies surveyed have decided to purchase some type of terrorism coverage during 2004, according to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 16, 2004
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Poll: Doctors' Records, Elderly Care Top Voters' Health-Care Concerns
...Henry & Associates Inc. to conduct the research, which polled 1,000 voters on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4. As a priority for deciding between candidates, the poll found, health care ranked ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 8, 2004
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Study: Public Confused, Wary of Bush-Style Health Proposals
Medicare Modernization Act. When the accounts are paired with a high-deductible plan, employees can put as much as $2,600 for an individual or $5,150 for a family -- tax free -- ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 1, 2004
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Update: Survey Shows Bush Support, Terrorism Concern Both Slipping Among Insurance Execs
National Marketing Services Inc., questions executives in companies across the country about such matters as confidence in the economy, public perception of the industry, and the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 7, 2004
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Survey Shows Bush Support, Terrorism Concern Both Slipping Among Insurance Execs
National Marketing Services Inc., questions executives in companies across the country about such matters as confidence in the economy, public perception of the industry, and the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 6, 2004
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Connecticut Professional Agents Give High Marks to Chubb, NLC and Peerless
Chubb Group, NLC Insurance Cos. and Peerless Insurance in the latest survey measuring 16 performance areas that agents value in insurers. The survey asked PIACT members to rank 15 ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 7, 2004
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Canadians Wouldn't Trade Their Health Plan for Cash, Survey Says
...Sponsors have either kept the status quo, or made minor changes." Sarah Beech, benefits practice leader at Hewitt Associates in Toronto, pointed out that coverage maximums in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 14, 2004
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California Voters Would Back Workers' Comp Referendum, Survey Finds
California voters would support Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to cut costs in the state's workers' compensation system if the issue were put to them as a referendum, according ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 27, 2004
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Number of Employed Uninsured Higher Than Expected in South Carolina
Viki Fox, the insurance department's project manager. "The biggest surprise," was discovering that efforts to address the uninsured needed to move less toward subsidizing the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 20, 2004
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Aon Study: Professional Liability Claims Up 9.7% a Year
Aon Actuarial and Analytics Practice. The marketplace is focused on premiums, but the results of this study show that claims activity is a significant contributor to the recent ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 27, 2004
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Some Health Plans' Changes Tighten Access to Allergy Drugs
Asthma and Allergy Foundation. "Rather than just take it from anecdotal stories from patients, we wanted to get a cleaner, more scientific look at what was happening and a lot of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 8, 2004
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Bank Sales of Annuities Rise, Survey Shows
...Jackson National Monthly Bank Annuity Sales Survey. Annuity sales in the banking industry were only 3% below those of March, which was the best month ever recorded for annuity ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 26, 2003
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Notebook: Blaster Worm, Power Blackout Might Spur Cyber Insurance Sales
Carnegie Mellon University statistics. By Lori Chordas, senior associate editor, Best's Review: Lori.Chordas@ambest.com
Source: Best's Review   Date: November 1, 2003
Survey Finds Information Security a Concern, Companies Poorly Prepared
As privacy issues become more closely regulated on both a state and a federal level, a new industry survey shows insurance executives believe more needs to be done to meet the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 1, 2003
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Auto Rates Increase but So Does Customer Satisfaction
National Auto Insurance Study by J.D. Power & Associates, a global marketing information services firm. In the past 12 months, many people who have shopped their rates are ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 2, 2003
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Some Complain NAIC Survey Has Affected Auto Insurance Rates in New Jersey
...That appears to be the only reason to publish the report." The survey is "absolutely misleading and of absolutely no use to anybody because it compares apples with pineapples and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 30, 2003
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NAIC: New Jersey Again Most Expensive State for Auto Insurance
National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Garden State policyholders paid an average of $1,027.71 per insured vehicle in 2001. This was up from 2000, when New Jersey was ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 29, 2003
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