The News Review:
- Swinton Insurance Picks SAS to Grow Customer Base
- Insurance ‘Bad Faith’ Subject of Recent State Supreme Court Cases …
- Health insurance mess
Swinton Insurance Picks SAS to Grow Customer Base
MarketWatch
SAS, the leader in business
analytics, will enable Swinton to create and automate more timely
and targeted campaigns to attract new and lapsed customers, supporting
its aim to become the leading retailer in the personal insurance market. By improving understanding of customer behaviours, SAS’
analytics will help Swinton predict their likelihood to respond to
specific marketing campaigns. Swinton will increase response rates by
better targeting potential customers with the right offers, at the right
time. Furthermore, the company will use SAS to evaluate the effectiveness of
its entire direct marketing programme, across direct mail, e-mail, Web
and SMS, to understand which channels are working best and where to make
improvements.
Insurance ‘Bad Faith’ Subject of Recent State Supreme Court Cases …
MarketWatch
Updates on recent cases is just one of the sessions for litigators,
in-house counsel and insurance companies at the “Bad Faith Litigation
Conference” scheduled for Nov. 6-7 at The Harvard Club in New York City. Mealey’s Litigation Report: Bad Faith, published by LexisNexis, reported
on four cases decided or presented to the high courts, two in Florida. In the case of Perera v. USF&G, the Eleventh Circuit U.
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Health insurance mess
Salt Lake Tribune, United States
What about John McCain, offering a tax cut to Americans so they can buy health insurance? Does McCain not understand that half of all bankruptcies come from medical costs, and 74 percent of those people had health insurance at the time of filing? Why don’t we solve the problems instead of adding to them? Coverage doesn’t result in care unless the insurance companies approve treatment. A tax cut doesn’t translate into affordability when insurance premiums, co-pays and deductibles are rising this quickly, while the actual “care” that is paid for by insurance companies has been consistently dropping for the past 10 years. Why does America keep buying into this system? Are these candidates only finding ways to give insurance companies more money so that the insurance companies can turn around and make a donation to the candidates? Erica Abbott Logan Advertisement.