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
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
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
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
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
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























