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		<title>WellPoint, Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes: Bloodless Economics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The mind-boggling increase in healthcare premiums promoted to policyholders of WellPoint Inc. and its subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross comes down to a central question, according to a story today in the New York Times&#8230; 
Is this the bloodless economics of risk, or a corporate culture of greed? 
In Los Angeles Bernhard Punzet opened up his envelope from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIGNA LINA disability screw-up nets $600k Settlement in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[LINA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I may not agree with Steve Poizner on his views of California labor law, but when he gets it right on other things, I give him his due. The recent bad faith insurance settlement that the California Insurance Commissioner announced with Life Insurance Company of North America (aka LINA, and part of CIGNA) is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In View of Past Misdeeds, Unum is Playing it Smart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to give credit where credit is due: for a corporation oft-painted as a villain, Unum Provident is one smart company. 
Unum Provident has been dragged through the mud in recent years over various charges and allegations that the company goes out of its way to deny legitimate disability claims. A claim, after all, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready for the Social Security Disability Insurance Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/get-ready-for-the-social-security-disabilities-insurance-tsunami-01003.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, as aging and injured baby boomers make claims, a Social Security Disabilities Insurance tsunami will likely make landfall soon. Compound that with the recession and at least 10 states ready to furlough hundreds of employees who process initial benefit claims: more waves are predicted.
According to unions.org, two out of every three Social Security Disabilities [...]]]></description>
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