Led by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb, the Senate today passed legislation repealing the much-criticized 1099 reporting provision in the healthcare reform law and sent the bill to President Obama for his signature.
Led by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb, the Senate today passed legislation repealing the much-criticized 1099 reporting provision in the healthcare reform law and sent the bill to President Obama for his signature.
Over the next five years, we should expect dramatic changes in insurance underwriting, claims handling and fraud detection. What are the key trends, and what will be their impact on the claims-handling and fraud-fighting workflow between now and 2016? Here are some predictions.
Since AA&B's December 2009 cover story "Diving Into Internet Marketing," the social media world has gone from a swimming pool to an ocean, with most of your carriers and customers busy on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Are you swimming, sinking or just treading water?
The use of social-media sites—Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—has surged at a record-breaking pace over the past few years, and they are now used by employees and employers in almost every workplace—a development that has opened new vehicles for harassment, discrimination and employment-related defamation.
The impact of social media on employment claims was a hot topic at the most recent International Conference of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society in San Antonio.