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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
New York Challenges Doctor Ranking Programs
By Staff WriterThe office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent letters asking 3 large health insurers about efforts to set up programs to steer ...
August 14, 2007
Investors Put More Cash Into Digital InsuranceInternet Healthcare Group L.L.C. and company managers have invested about $17.5 million in Digital Insurance Inc.Internet Healthcare, Avon, Conn., and Digital Insurance managers are putting ...
August 14, 2007
FINRA: Marketing Rules Can Coexist With Privacy RulesThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says insurers ought to be able to keep new reps from replacing existing customers' variable annuities without using the customers' ...
August 14, 2007
A Blimp Is BornMetLife Inc. has added another dirigible to its squadron of lighter-than-air promotional vehicles.MetLife, New York, says the newest blimp in its 20-year-old blimp program, Snoopy ...
August 13, 2007
MetLife Unit Develops Income Planning KitAn insurer has put together a package of marketing materials for financial professionals who want to help clients use variable annuities to fund retirement income ...
August 13, 2007
IPA Chooses Software VendorAccountable Health Care IPA has agreed to use a claim processing and benefits administration system from MZI HealthCare L.L.C.Accountable Health Care, Signal Hill, Calif., will ...
August 12, 2007
NCOIL Releases Life Settlement Model DraftThe National Conference of Insurance Legislators has released a new Life Settlements Model Act draft.Members of NCOIL, Troy, N.Y., say they will wait to talk ...
August 12, 2007
New Rules Demand New WaysIn recent years, the tax framework for nonqualified executive benefit programs has become more complex and expensive to administer. In the split dollar world, there ...