Meeting Wednesday involves long--term care needs (Aberdeen American News)

Published - 12/02/2008 06:13 AM

Most South Dakota families do their best to plan for the future, by contributing to a retirement plan or purchasing insurance to protect against home damage. Unfortunately, many are unaware of insurance that can protect them from another potential financial disaster: the need for long--term care.... 

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Donegal Group Acquires Sheboygan Falls Insurance Company (Insurance Journal)

Published - 12/02/2008 09:46 AM

Donegal Group Inc. recently reported that it had completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding capital stock of Sheboygan Falls Insurance Co. The acquisition was approximately $12 million, which 

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Crop seminars cover marketing, insurance (The Argus Leader)

Published - 11/29/2008 02:02 AM

The South Dakota Corn Growers Association, South Dakota Corn Utilization Council and Farm Credit Services of America is offerering a series of seminars on crop marketing, estate planning and crop insurance. The seminars will be repeated six times in separate cities. The schedule is: Monday - Aberdeen Best Western Ramkota, noon; Watertown Event Center, 6 p.m. 

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Donegal Group Inc. Acquires Sheboygan Falls Insurance Company (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 12/02/2008 08:00 AM

MARIETTA, Pa., Dec. 2, 2008 -- Donegal Group Inc. reported that it had completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding capital stock of Sheboygan Falls Insurance Company. The acquisition consideration was approximately $12.0 million, which includes a surplus contribution of $8.5 million to support the future premium growth of Sheboygan Falls. 

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Sellout, shutout ... wow (Rapid City Journal)

Published - 12/01/2008 03:33 AM

RAPID CITY — The Rapid City Rush staged its own holiday Festival of Lights for fans who came to watch South Dakota’s first-ever professional hockey game Saturday. The expansion franchise christened its new ice arena and introduced hockey to the sellout crowd at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center by lighting up the scoreboard. 

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Camilion's Next-Generation Policy Administration System Provides Total Implementation for Cincinnati Specialty ... (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 12/02/2008 08:30 AM

Camilion Solutions, a leading provider of insurance product development solutions and next-generation policy administration systems, today announced that The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Company, the excess and surplus lines subsidiary of The 

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No SD Medicaid Expansion (KSFY Sioux Falls)

Published - 12/02/2008 11:41 PM

In his 2010 budget proposal, Governor Mike Rounds says the state must maintain Medicaid coverage for low income people, but he says the planned expansion of two programs will be eliminated. 

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He Wrote the Book on Health Care (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)

Published - 11/30/2008 01:15 PM

When Tom Daschle was the Senate's Democratic leader, he wasn't known for his health care expertise. He had other, more pressing worries -- mainly keeping his caucus together when it was balanced on a simple one-vote majority. So he mainly deferred on the issue to Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who had long advocated for comprehensive national health insurance. 

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Kids, pregnant woman among those impacted by Rounds' budget (Rapid City Journal)

Published - 12/02/2008 07:23 PM

Health care coverage through current state programs will not be extended to an additional 2,000 children and 1,268 pregnant women as the governor clamps down on state spending. 

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South Dakota Healthcare System Saves $500,000+ Using Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (Centre Daily Times)

Published - 11/24/2008 03:17 PM

Regional Health in Rapid City, S.D., and its employees will save more than $500,000 during the next three years on insurance premiums as a result of purchasing products through the employee benefit sponsored insurance arrangements with Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Premier healthcare alliance. 

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