News Digest 9/16/2008
Wyoming Lawmakers Cowboy Up on Workers’ Comp Wyoming’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee meets in Casper to mull over several proposed bills aimed at improving services to …
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News Digest 6/3/2008
Cowboy State Lawmakers Hear Testimony on Workers’ Comp At a hearing of the state’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee, Wyoming lawmakers scrutinize whether workers’ compensation benefits are …
News Digest 4/29/2008
ACS to Purchase CompIQ Texas-based business processing outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services Inc. agrees to acquire workers’ compensation software and services provider CompIQ Corp, for $22 million plus contingent payments based …
News Digest 1/24/2008
Employers Direct Launches New Benefits Brokerage This Month Plenary Insurance Services is now in business. Find out about Employers Direct’s foray into benefits brokering. Can it find efficiencies where so …
Employers Direct New Benefits Brokerage Launched This Month
Employers Direct Insurance Company this month threw open the doors to its new employee benefits brokerage, Plenary Insurance Services. Employers Direct executives say that, to their knowledge, it’s the first offering of an efficient group health program that can work closely with the workers’ comp carrier if the client buys both coverages from the two …
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News Digest 11/15/2007
Oregon Insurance Division Has New Administrator The Department of Consumer and Business Services names Scott Kipper, currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Health Insurance for the Louisiana Department …
Benefit Managers Can Reap Rewards
More and more workers’ comp carriers and self-insureds are starting to use the services of pharmaceutical benefit managers, thanks to promises of annual drug-spending savings of up to 20%. At its core, the function of a pharmaceutical benefit manager (PBM) is to ensure the right prescription drugs are delivered to the right patient at the …
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News Digest 9/20/2007
Oregon Cuts 2008 Pure Premium Rate for Second Straight Year The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announces that the state’s pure premium rate will drop by 2.3 percent, …