Medicare Ends Contract With Fox Insurance Company Drug Plan (Medical News Today)

Published - 03/12/2010 12:16 AM

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Company. After an onsite review of the plan and its services, CMS determined that the plan's significant deficiencies - not meeting Medicare's requirements to provide enrollees with prescription drugs according to recognized standards of care - jeopardized the health and safety of Fox enrollees ... 

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State Farm plans to raise Texas homeowner rates 4.5 percent (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Published - 03/11/2010 05:33 PM

The Texas Department of Insurance commissioner asked State Farm to withdraw the rate increase, given that it follows an 8.8 percent increase the company implemented in September and October. 

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Quotit® Corporation Introduces New Online Application for Insurance Coverage With Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 03/11/2010 12:21 PM

ORANGE, Calif.----Quotit® Corporation, a division of The Word & Brown Companies, today introduced enhancements to their Internet system that will provide individuals and families seeking health insurance a seamless, online application for coverage. 

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Safeco Insurance Donates $4K To Support Boys and Girls Clubs (Tyler Morning Telegraph)

Published - 03/12/2010 12:05 AM

Bosworth Associates announced this week that Safeco Insurance has donated $4,000 to the Boys Girls Clubs of East Texas in Tyler to support their work with children in the community, said spokesman Brian Coddington, senior account supervisor, Hill Knowlton Northwest. 

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Business briefs: U.S., Texas, Barnett rig counts up this week (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Published - 03/12/2010 09:29 PM

U.S., Texas, Barnett rig counts up this week The number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil and natural 

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A.M. Best to Feature Best's Directories of Recommended Insurance Attorneys and Adjusters at PLRB Conference (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 03/12/2010 09:03 AM

OLDWICK, N.J.----A.M. Best Co. will exhibit at booth #489 at the Property Loss Research Bureau Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo, set for March 21-24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. 

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Texas Company Awarded W.Va. School Food Contract (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

Published - 03/09/2010 12:28 PM

The West Virginia Department of Education has awarded a contract to a Texas company to improve its food service operations at schools across the state. 

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Exclusive: State privatization champion gets contract to help clear up welfare mess (Dallas Morning News)

Published - 03/14/2010 03:08 AM

AUSTIN - A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted. 

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Recession Is Fueling A Boom In Insurance Fraud (Free Internet Press)

Published - 03/12/2010 02:28 PM

The sour economy is producing a bumper crop of cash-strapped consumers, business owners and shady agents who're fueling a wave of insurance fraud that's keeping regulators and law enforcement officials busy from coast to coast. 

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Child-murder suspect Byron Lang nabbed in Texas (The Joplin Globe)

Published - 03/12/2010 04:39 PM

A Joplin man, who skipped town while out on bail in a child murder case, has been captured in Texas. Authorities in Big Spring, Texas, reported the arrest Thursday of Byron D. Lang, 20, on a warrant for second-degree murder. 

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