Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Texas Mom Sues After Insurance Denies Claim and Daughter Dies of Appendicitis

The parents of Isabella Tolentino are suing their insurance provider of the death of their 6-yr. old daughter. Prinsabella Mia FOundation/Facebook A Texas nurse and mother has sued her insurance company after her 6-year-old daughter died of a brain injury when appendicitis surgery allegedly went wrong while the family was on vacation in the Dominican Republic in 2012. Marissett Tolentino alleges in a lawsuit filed Dec. 17 in Galveston...

Monday, 30 December 2013

Virtual Insurance: How ObamaCare Saves 30 Million From Being Uninsured While Leaving 30 Million Without Coverage

Obama supporters cite the 30 million who stand eventually to gain health insurance coverage as the most compelling reason for not abandoning ObamaCare in its time of troubles. Despite a string of disappointments and broken promises, ObamaCare critics do not push back against this  claim. After all, the 30 million who will gain insurance is a calculation of the "non-partisan" CBO. In actuality, the 30 million figure is the CBO's projected difference between the numbers of uninsured without and with ObamaCare in various years in the future....

Deadline extended for health insurance sign-up

The deadline to sign up for insurance on the government's health care website arrived Tuesday, a day later than expected after the Obama administration granted those waiting until the last minute — or those tripped up by the site's glitches — an extra day to enroll. The one-day grace period was the latest in a series of delays that have marked the rollout of the health care law. Officials said they decided to extend the deadline to Christmas...

CommVault and Hitachi Data Systems Bring Advanced Data Protection, Availability and Recovery to Enterprises and SIs

2013-12-22 14:53:54 - Enhanced Hitachi Data Protection Suite powered by CommVault Simpana® software automates data backup, management and access for unified storage, virtualized and cloud infrastructureDUBAI , United Arab Emirates, 22nd December, 2013 - CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced an expansion of its long-standing OEM partnership with Hitachi Data Systems to provide the industry's most advanced data protection and recovery solutions to enterprises and IT-as-a-service providers.New, deeper integration of Hitachi Data Protection Suite,...

Criminal Justice Degree Offers Detroiters Exciting Opportunities

For more news and information about employment and education, visit Let's Get To Work Detroit. People in Detroit know how difficult it can be to land gainful employment in this tough Michigan economy; they also know how hard it can be to turn that position into a longtime, fruitful career. The Motor City may have its problems with crime, not unlike any other big city, but with the economy on the upswing, more Detroiters than...

Shifting Obamacare deadlines are giving insurance industry fits

The Obamacare enrollment deadline to have coverage by Jan. 1 was Dec. 15 ... then Dec. 23 ... then Dec. 24. Insurance industry workers charged with making it all work are not amused. This Dec. 20 image shows part of the HealthCare.gov website. Anticipating heavy traffic on the government's...

Sunday, 29 December 2013

Health-insurance sign-ups on U.S. exchange top 1.1 million in initial enrollment period

More than 1.1 million Americans signed up for an insurance plan through the federal health-care marketplace during its initial enrollment period, with more than 975,000 enrolling in December alone, the Obama administration announced Sunday. The new figures, which came as the administration reworked its computer system to extend the deadline for an extra day, until midnight on Dec. 24, suggest that federal officials are making up some ground after glitches and processing errors made HealthCare.gov difficult to access and navigate during...

Saturday, 28 December 2013

Florida Car Accident Attorneys at The Berman Law Group Wish a Safe and Happy Holidays

BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Berman Law Group, Florida personal injury and car acciden t lawyers, wish a happy and safe holidays to everyone this holiday season.  The holidays are notorious for the amount of accidents that happen, and the Berman Law Group wants to remind everyone to drive safely.  Not only can the weather have an impact on the driving conditions, but so can the amount of traffic on the roads.  Most people on the roads are in a holiday rush and the...

Friday, 27 December 2013

It's Not Just Poor People Getting Hosed When Congress Lets Unemployment Insurance Expire

NEW YORK -- David Torian is an Ivy League-educated lawyer and a onetime chief of staff to then-Rep. Michael McNulty...

Thursday, 26 December 2013

The Quiet Death Of Long-Term Unemployment Insurance In 2013

WASHINGTON -- The looming expiration of federal unemployment benefits raises the question of whether Democratic lawmakers bungled...

Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Motorcycle Accident Lawyers

Tweet Tweet As with many areas of law, choosing from the vast array of motorcycle accident lawyers is not an easy task, but for those facing accidents or injury, choosing the right attorney is often the difference between success and failure in the courtroom.  There are some key considerations that anyone needing an attorney for motorcycle accidents can and should consider and the purpose here is to provide a starting point from...

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Obama to Health Insurance Companies: Merry Christmas. Now, Drop Dead.

Move up Move down Fed Readies Reverse Repo Hoping To Soak Up QE Cash Bill Frezza Contributor App Fatigue Sets In As The Digital Revolution Ages Bill Frezza Contributor Pope Francis Is No Economist Bill Frezza Contributor Insurance is a complicated product. Even President Obama figured that out. Hundreds of highly trained actuaries spend thousands of hours assembling risk pools to determine premium levels, underwriting standards,...

Five Reasons Not to Cut Disaster Recovery from Your Budget

When was the last time you experienced unplanned downtime? How much did it affect your organization? Ninety-one percent of respondents in a 2013 Ponemon Institute study reported experiencing unplanned downtime in the last two years. Although that's not a shocking statistic to those in the cloud arena, what is alarming is the fact that an estimated 30 percent of organizations that experience a severe outage never actually recover. Business leaders...

Monday, 23 December 2013

Last-minute insurance shoppers get 1-day extension

CHICAGO (AP) — Anticipating heavy traffic on the government's health care website, the Obama administration extended Monday's deadline for signing up for insurance by a day, giving Americans in 36 states more time to select a plan.It was the latest in a series of pushed-back deadlines and delays that have marked the rollout of the health care law.But federal officials urged buyers not to procrastinate."You should...