WASHINGTON — To a greater degree than most insurance company chiefs, Mark Bertolini has encountered his own personal challenges with the health care system.

Bertolini, the head of insurer Aetna, faced a tough time in 2001 when his teenage son Eric was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that was considered incurable. Bertolini moved into his son’s hospital room for more than a year during treatment. At one point, his son’s prognosis was so grim that the family decided to place him in hospice, a move that meant signing “do not resuscitate” orders and making other difficult decisions.

That experience, Bertolini says, later helped guide him to make changes to hospice policy at Aetna to make it easier for families. Full Article…

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Miller has announced that it has enhanced its reinsurance capabilities team with the appointment of Mark Lambert.

Lambert, who formerly worked for AonBenfield ReSolutions, brings over a decade of experience in the reinsurance business to Miller.

He is particularly knowledgeable in the field of property catastrophe and risk XL business, in addition to casualty, personal accident and kidnap & ransom.

In 1993 he joined broker Alexander Howden’s non-marine retrocession team, focusing upon non-traditional solutions, and three years later moved on to Grieg Fester.

Following the Benfield takeover he became team leader of Benfield Structured Products in 2007, and later became co-leader of Aon Benfield ReSolutions.

James Geffen, head of Reinsurance at Miller, expressed his delight at Lambert’s appointment, adding that his skill set was highly complementary and enhanced the firm’s ability to provide unorthodox and practical reinsurance solutions for its clients.

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Medicaid coverage health insurance has been restored for transplant patients by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer many months after a reduction started accusations that Republicans lawmakers were cold hearted on serious medical conditions.  According to the article “Arizona Restores Transplant Coverage With New Budget” by Paul Davenport on MySanAntonio.com, this was made possible through a budget packed signed by Brewer earlier this week.

The Governor’s administration state that the transplant coverage was reinstated immediately following the authorization of the new budget.  Brewer proposed in March that the coverage be restored as part of a revamping of Arizona’s Medicaid program in an effort to balance the budget.  Approxim

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As announced in the 2011 budget, the changes to the Furnished Holiday Lets (FHL) tax rules come into effect today – April 6.

From April 6 it will only be possible to offset trading losses from a furnished holiday lettings business against certain income from that same FHL business. T

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If you have been wondering as to why it is that automobile insurance quotes keep fluctuating the way they do, you might perhaps want to know how you might be able to keep their increase under check. There are a lot of factors that are responsible for the rise in automobile insurance rates. You should be aware of these so that you can keep them in check and ensure that you never have to deal with exorbitant insurance rates. Listed below are some things that you could perhaps do in order to avoid an increase in your quotes.

One of the things that you might perhaps want to consider here is that when you do get the automobile insurance quotes and notice an increase, it might because you had made claims in the past.

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