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pointerHEALTHCARE
- Healthcare Consumers Get Added Appeal Rights
- Health Reform May Put Some Smaller Insurers Out of Business
- Some Insurers Stop Writing Individual Coverage For Kids
- Improving Medicare Efficiency

pointerEMPLOYEE BENEFITS
- People Who Buy Disability Insurance
- Retirement Benefits Declined 19% between 1998 and 2008

pointerIN CALIFORNIA
- Anthem Blue Cross of California Gets New President
- Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Spurn High-Risk Pool
- New HSAs in California


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pointerLIFE INSURANCE
- How Refinancing A Mortgage Can Compromise Life Insurance Protection

pointerINDUSTRY NEWS
- Hyatt Legal Plans, Acquires Allstate’s Group Legal Plans Business

pointerNEW PRODUCTS
- Social Media Marketing Guide
- Hospital Indemnity Product
- Guide to Healthcare Reform

pointerLIFE SETTLEMENTS
- GAO Says Life Settlements Need Consistent Oversight

pointerDISABILITY NEWS
- High Unemployment Continues for People with Disabilities


insurance surveys

dental survey 09
19. If covered, explain the process that allows the general dentist to refer to the specialist.
20. Are any of your specialists board eligible/certified?
21. How do you fund your specialty care?
Get the answers....
hsa survey 09
1. What are the primary services you offer as part of your HSA product?
2. Do you offer an HSA-qualifying high deductible health insurance plan?
Get the answers....
ppos survey 09
1. Is an approval procedure required for getting a specialist referral or a diagnostic test or treatment in-network or out-of-network?
2. Are there any restrictions on getting second opinions from an in-network provider or an out-of-network provider?
Get the answers.... ppo survey 09
Hmo survey
1. Do you guarantee a time limit on getting referral/treatment routine, urgent, emergency? If not, how many days does it take?
2. Do you have any conditions/diagnoses/symptoms that are referred automatically?
Get the answers...
term survey 09
1. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two preferred non-smoker classes?
2. What percentage of the cases you underwrote last year were issued at your top two standard nonsmoker classes?
Get the answers...
voluntary_benefit survey
Assembling Our First Assembling Our First Voluntary Benefits Survey
Finding the Right Benefits Package for Your Clients
1.Please list the voluntary/employee-paid benefits that you offer along with the minimum group size for each offering:
2. Do you have any benefit offerings for employees that work fewer than 40 hours a week?
Get the answers...

July 2010

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• Medical Tourism
• Voluntary Benefits
• Annuities
• Long-Term Care
• Self-Funding
• Healthcare
• Disability
• COBRA

 
Problem
Not Solved

by Kate Kinkade
Despite the fact that the insurance industry has been forecasting the loss of its primary means of distribution for the past two and half decades, nothing has been developed to address the issue. Considering how resourceful this industry is in every other circumstance, the lack of productive solutions to the key issue of distribution is surprising, to say the least.

Insurance distribution continues to rely on the involvement of a trained, skilled sales person to interact with the consumer. There are exceptions, of course, but even consumers who have been responsible for the increasing sale of term life insurance online have reported that an interaction with a sales person has driven them toward the purchase.
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