Insurance

Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Managed Care July 2006	UnitedHealth Ruling Cites Flaws in System The judge who recently ruled in favor of UnitedHealth Group in a massive class-action suit that has been dragging through the courts since 1999, presented the state of the country's health coverage system as a somewhat dichotomous mess.
Managed Care July 2006	Education Concerns Push Back Florida's Medicaid Experiment The greatly anticipated meeting between Medicaid and managed care that's expected to take place in Florida has been delayed.
InternetNews July 26, 2006 Clint Boulton	IBM Grid in The Insurance Business IBM said it has created IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis, a new grid computing package to help life insurance companies cut the time needed to run detailed insurance model scenarios.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Gary Thompson	Property Insurers Put to the Test Insurers may circle like sharks, sensing the opportunity to blunt their obligations. But there is nothing about the sale of a property that provides an insurer with the opportunity to sidestep its duty to pay. Policyholders should insist that insurers adhere to their obligations.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Lori Widmer	Chasing Time To improve compliance efforts as well as better prioritize projects, communicate tasks to managers, and coordinate among project managers and developers, this midsize carrier of commercial and personal insurance lines decided to automate project management.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Follow the Rules Blue Shield of California utilized Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management solution to centralize its HR systems and increase workforce productivity.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Lisa Valentine	Best of Both Worlds An interview with Greg Tranter, SVP/CIO of Hanover Insurance Group about technology's role at the insurance carrier and how the close alignment between IT and business pays off.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Digging for Dollars The insurance agent often is portrayed as going door to door with an oversized briefcase brimming with paper applications. While that might have been so in the 1950s, today, selling insurance means connecting with the customer, and it takes more than just a smile and a shoeshine. It takes knowledge.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	Managing Mobility Insurers are deploying mobile/wireless devices and applications to improve productivity in areas such as sales/agent support and claims. But security issues create risks.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Anthony O'Donnell	Gosnell Takes CUNA Baton Tom Gosnell has been passed the technology leadership baton at CUNA Mutual Group, leaving former CIO Rick Roy to concentrate on his new role as SVP of customer operations.
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