Category: Archive – Seminars

NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting

Jan 20, 2009

NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) will hold a Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup meeting on Tuesday, January 20, starting at 12:00 p.m. (EST) via teleconference. The registration call-in number is: 412.317.6715. To view …

Clinic owners plead guilty to Medicare fraud

Jan 16, 2009

South Florida Business Journal–January 15, 2009 The owners of two Miami medical clinics, along with a phlebotomist, have pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million HIV and cancer infusion fraud scheme, according to the …

Florida Medicaid Computer Still Ailing

Jan 16, 2009

Tampa Tribune–January 16, 2009 By LINDSAY PETERSON Problems erupted with the state’s new Medicaid payment system the day it went online seven months ago, and they haven’t gone away. The Hillsborough Achievement and Resource Center has lost about $12,000 in …

Big health plans lose 190,000 Florida enrollees

Jan 16, 2009

South Florida Business Journal–January 16, 2009 by Brian Bandell The growing unemployment rate drove a loss of nearly 190,000 commercial health plan enrollees at Florida’s largest insurance plans during 2008. A Business Journal survey of the seven-largest commercial health insurers …

Concern about drywall grows

Jan 16, 2009

Bardenton Herald–January 16, 2009 By JESSICA KLIPA MANATEE – A growing number of homeowners worry that they, too, could have foul-smelling Chinese drywall in their homes. The building material has been linked to corrosion of mechanical and electrical systems and …

Alex Sink won’t run for Mel Martinez’s Senate seat

Jan 16, 2009

Miami Herald–January 16, 2009 BY BETH REINHARD Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced Friday that she’s not running for the U.S. Senate, opening the door to a crop of lesser-known contenders. Sink, the only statewide officeholder on the Democratic shortlist, …

Insurance-Related Meetings for the Week of January 19-23

Jan 16, 2009

  Insurance-Related Meetings:  Week of January 19-23, 2009   Tuesday, January 20   NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) will hold a Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup meeting on Tuesday, January 20, starting at …

2009 State of the Florida Insurance Market Summit

Jan 14, 2009

2009 State of the Florida Insurance Market Summit Join Colodny Fass, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and Guy Carpenter from January 14-16, 2009 at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida to cover the year in review, and …

Louisiana Senate Interim Insurance Committee Meeting

Jan 14, 2009

Louisiana Senate Interim Insurance Committee Meeting The Louisiana Senate Insurance Committee will hold an interim meeting on Wednesday, January 14, starting at 1:00 p.m. The live Internet broadcast may be viewed by clicking here and selecting the television icon. Items …

Workers’ Compensation Rule Hearing

Jan 14, 2009

Workers’ Compensation Rule Hearing The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a Notice of Development of Rulemaking regarding the following Rule: 69L-7.602: Florida Workers’ Compensation Medical Services Billing, Filing and Reporting Rule The proposed Rule …