Archive for May, 2010

Florida Home insurance News

Florida homeowners insurance has been in a disaster over the past few years, particularly since the bumper windstorm year of 2004. The Sunshine State has been afflicted with many home insurance claims due to hurricanes, tropical storms, flooding and sinkholes.Florida house Insurance can need flood insurance, sinkhole insurance, wind coverage and responsibility to cover a [...]

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Aetna disqualified from multi-billion dollar TRICARE military contract

Saying it is “extremely upset” with the decision, Aetna plans to decide why it was banned from winning a multi-billion dollar contract to grant health care to members of the military. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it was awarding the agreement for its TRICARE North Region to Health Net Federal Services, [...]

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The wonder of health insurance

Having struggled even the modest health care reforms of the Patient safety and reasonable Care Act, insurers now look to be falling all over themselves to make good.
But that is not what makes me wonder. That is politics, requiring getting on the superior side of the winners. What makes me wonder is about the financial [...]

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Georgia impending health reform delicately

Georgia is approaching the new health care reform law gingerly — with skepticism and even downright opposition. A combination of responses by Georgia officials to the new law ranging from opposition to some measures, declining to implement another and a general hesitancy to quickly move ahead have raised concerns that implementing reforms here could [...]

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