October 29, 2007

Sunshine State Scorches WellCare

Street.Com - In recent years, WellCare has enjoyed explosive growth as a leading health insurance carrier for Medicaid and Medicare recipients. But a huge government raid last week devastated the company’s stock. The shares, sitting at a two-year low of $33.61 Read more

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October 26, 2007

Feds take control of Miami-Dade housing

Miami Herald - The federal government takeover of the Miami-Dade Housing Agency began Friday morning with an early meeting between leaders from both sides. Affordable-housing advocates briefly interrupted the meeting around 9:30 a.m., dropping off an oversized Read more

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October 24, 2007

State works to protect consumers from having health coverage pulled

San Francisco Gate - Insurers, however, were concerned that rules requiring them to prove an applicant intended to lie would make individual insurance more expensive and difficult to get. “We’re concerned a broad willfulness requirement will make it more expensive and Read more

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October 21, 2007

GOP rivals argue who’s most conservative

Miami Herald - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, answers questions about his conservative agenda and Mormon faith during a taping of CBS’s Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, in Washington, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. The Read more

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October 18, 2007

Music: She bangs the DRUM

Minneapolis Star Tribune - I’m just hoping to have fun.” Zach attack The Dinkytowner hosted an impromptu benefit Wednesday night for Kanser rapper Zach Combs , aka New MC , who needs about $4,000 worth of face surgery ASAP and doesn’t have insurance. Combs said he was clothes-lined Read more

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October 16, 2007

Secrecy is still possible – just

Financial Times - A leader in the field of captive insurance and also strong in offshore funds and aircraft registration. Bermuda has not signed up to the European Union withholding tax and exchange of information directive. British Virgin Islands Launched as an Read more

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October 13, 2007

‘I know how I am going to die’

Globe and Mail - And there are the very real possibilities of being unable to obtain life and long-term-disability insurance. Adult children are not always aware that Huntington’s disease runs in the family. Sure, there may have been a tragic story about a grandparent Read more