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The board of directors of Normandy Harbor Insurance Co. has named Therese “Terri” A. Stevens as the company’s new president and CEO....
Fort Lauderdale-based PEO Alpha-Staff Group, Inc., has named Joseph G. De Rosa executive vice president of traditional sales....
Towers Watson has appointed Robert Betz to the position of practice leader for the company’s Florida P&C insurance services....
Armando L. Vilches, CPCU, has joined Uni-Ter Underwriting Management Corp. as vice president of marketing. ...
WellCare Health Plans, Inc., of Tampa has named Ann O. Wehr, M.D. to the post of chief medical officer. Dr. Wehr will lead the company’s medical affairs initiatives and health policy strategy. ...
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HealthPlan Holdings, Inc., of Tampa has acquired GEMGroup, a service company that specializes in providing administrative services to large and medium-sized employee benefit plans. ...
Brown & Brown, Inc., earned a net income for the second quarter of 2010 of $41,185,000, an increase of 1.3 percent from the $40,668,000 reported for the same time period in 2009....
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is offering policyholders with Energy Star buildings a five percent discount on their insurance premiums....
MarketScout Wholesale, an electronic insurance exchange that underwrites and distributes product lines to a member agency network nationwide and in Canada, has opened an office in Tampa....
The Travelers Companies, Inc., reported net income of $670 million for the quarter ending June 30, 2010, compared to $740 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. ...
The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has a new tool that allows injured employees to estimate their wage replacement benefits when injured on the job....
More than 80.1 percent of Florida’s small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage....
FWCI
NCCI has examined the new health-care bill with an eye toward enumerating the effects anticipated for the workers’ compensation industry. ...
A new drug study by PMSI provides significant insight into the key drivers of price, utilization, and drug mix across the top medication classes used in the treatment of injured workers nationwide....
