January 29, 2008

Humble Independent School District Opens Care ATC On-site Clinics

Forbes - As insurance and health care costs spiral upward and employers look for ways to minimize the impact on their operations, the national trend of providing worksite medical care continues to grow. The Humble Independent School District’s decision to Read more

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January 27, 2008

Insurance worker’s risk pays off in health care

Chicago Tribune - As a summer assistant, Wilbur Gantz shared an office with his boss and “heard everything going on,” Gantz recalled, including the wholesale grocer negotiating his company’s first group insurance plan. “I was fascinated with the concept and with Read more

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January 24, 2008

Fixing Md.’s deregulation will be harder than its start

Baltimore Sun - But that was when he was insurance commissioner. Now’s he’s chairman of the PSC, an agency that retains a small fraction of the power that it held a decade ago, thanks to deregulation. Most importantly, it lost control of the supply side of the Read more

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January 21, 2008

Support wavers in South Florida

St. Petersburg Times - MIAMI - Radames Villalon fits the profile of an Amendment 1 supporter. He’s a loyal Republican and business owner who is disgusted over soaring property tax and insurance bills. A week from today he will enter the polls — but to vote against the Read more

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January 19, 2008

2 arrested in Bhutto assassination plot

Miami Herald - Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard on the route of Shiite Muslim’s procession in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Authorities boosted security after a suicide bombing in Peshawar which killed 11 people in a Shiite mosque and Read more

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January 17, 2008

US presses China on Iran sanctions

Miami Herald - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, center in background, speaks at a media roundtable at the U.S. embassy compound in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Negroponte will attend the fifth session of the semiannual U.S.-China Senior Read more

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January 15, 2008

Oil below $94 ahead of US inventory data

Miami Herald - Oil prices fell Tuesday ahead of a U.S. inventory report expected to show crude oil supplies rose last week for the first time in nine weeks, with the market shrugging off comments from Saudi Arabia suggesting the OPEC heavyweight considered present Read more