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Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, September 24, 2012

Insurance Journal Weekly Reader Picks
September 24, 2012

Top 10 for the Past Week

1.More Employers Offering Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Survey
Sep 17, 2012 -- Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have surpassed health maintenance organizations to become the second most common plan design offered by U.S. employers, according to a survey from Aon Hewitt. Preferred provider ...
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2.Top 5 Reasons Employees Leave and Stay
Sep 17, 2012 -- Who is leaving companies and why? And how do employers hold onto key employees? The incentives to get employees to stay are not exactly the same as the factors that would cause them to leave, according to the Talent ...
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3.Is Long-Term Care Insurance Dying?
Sep 19, 2012 -- Poor results in the long-term care insurance sector have led many providers to exit the market, leaving its future uncertain, Moody's Investors Service says in a new report. The report, "Long-Term Care Insurance: Sector ...
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4.How Agents and Carriers Can Find Gold in Personal Lines
Sep 19, 2012 -- Independent agents and their companies have over the years been beaten in the personal lines market by direct response carriers and captive agents. But being down so long means there is plenty of room for independent ...
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5.Employees Staying Put Even If Unhappy: Talent Survey
Sep 17, 2012 -- As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the "resume tsunami" appears to have been reduced to a "resume riptide." According to Deloitte's latest global talent ...
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6.Insurance Agent is Face of Anti-Muslim Film Inflaming Middle East
Sep 14, 2012 -- A California insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran is the public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East, several news sources are reporting. Film promoter and insurance agent Steve Klien, who ran in ...
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7.Wisconsin's Sentry Insurance Cuts Office Jobs, Home-Based Agents
Sep 9, 2012 -- Sentry Insurance, based in Stevens Point, Wis., says it's cutting 27 office jobs in central Wisconsin and 144 home-based agents across 10 states as it restructures its strategy for selling personal line policies. Those ...
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8.Mass. Woman Charged With 46 Counts of Motor Vehicle Insurance Fraud
Sep 17, 2012 -- A Rockland, Mass., woman has been indicted in connection with a scheme to fraudulently collect insurance payments of more than $28,000. The Massachusetts attorney general's office announced last Friday that Olga ...
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9.Willis Launches Pizza Delivery Program
Sep 19, 2012 -- Willis Programs, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has introduced a customized insurance program for pizza delivery restaurants. PizzaGuard is an insurance program designed specifically to meet the needs of the pizza ...
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10.Re/insurers Increasingly Less Relevant to Global Economy: XL CEO McGavick
Sep 17, 2012 -- XL's CEO Mike McGavick doesn't mince words when it comes to looking at the big, and not very pretty, picture of the state of the re/insurance industry. Address emerging risks, innovate, create new products and provide ...
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