The WellPoint Foundation, a private, non-profit organization wholly funded by WellPoint, Inc., the parent company of UniCare Health Plan of Kansas, Inc. (UniCare), is providing a $10,000 grant to the American Red Cross North Central Kansas to aid in the recovery efforts following a series of large tornadoes which tore through sections of northeast Kansas earlier this month.
NBA star Doug Christie and his wife, Jackie, are planning to marry yet again on Tuesday, July 8th in Seattle, Washington in a lavish ultra private ceremony. This will be the 13th wedding for the power couple who have made this a family tradition.
AEGON N.V. and the international humanitarian organization Right To Play announce a new global partnership to extend the organization's mission to help children in deprived areas of Sudan, Uganda, Ghana and China. AEGON N.V. has donated EUR 1 million as part of a three year partnership that will extend through the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver, Canada.
PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the primary U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today released its Summer 2008 U.S. Market Risk Index(SM), which ranks the nation's 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) according to the likelihood that home prices will be lower in two years. The U.S. Market Risk Index shows risk further diverged along two distinctly different paths during the first quarter of 2008, continuing a trend that began in the fourth quarter of 2007. In general, risk continued to intensify in many of the MSAs where home price growth had significantly exceeded historical norms during the housing boom, but continued to decline in many other areas across the country.
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon announces that it has won four bronze (second-place) Telly Awards for health and wellness videos it created and produced for myRegence.com, a health-focused Web site for Regence members. The Telly Awards are widely considered to be the Emmys of non-news and advertising video production, and Regence's videos were selected from more than 14,000 entries worldwide.
Gridlock has paralyzed the U.S. Senate, derailing a critical bipartisan bill that would have stopped a 10 percent cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients, kept Medicare premiums fair, and made significant improvements to a program that 44 million Americans depend on.
The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge Louisiana today published a front page story about Louisiana's new law regarding teaching of evolution that contains a completely false statement in the lead.
Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MNRK), parent of Monarch Bank, announced that effective on June 30, 2008, it had sold $2.1 million of common stock in the second closing of a private placement in which it sold a total of 774,110 shares of common stock with gross proceeds of $7.2 million in additional equity capital. The first closing of the private placement was announced on June 10, 2008. In this placement, accredited investors purchased 704,309 shares at $9.25 per share, a discount to current market price to reflect the restrictions placed on the newly issued shares, and members of the corporate board of directors and senior management purchased 69,801 shares at $9.90 per share, the closing price of the Company's common stock on June 6, 2008, which, in accordance with NASDAQ guidelines on purchases by company insiders, is considered to be the market value of purchased shares. Monarch sold the private placement to local investors, institutional investors, board members, and members of management.
AARP Texas joined forces today with the Texas Medical Association to urge Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn to reconsider and support a bipartisan bill that would stop a 10.6 percent cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients, keep Medicare premiums fair, and make significant improvements to a program that 44 million Americans depend on.
In an effort to assist in the relief for victims of the Midwest flooding disaster, five AXA Financial, Inc. insurance companies announced today that they have relaxed the grace period for policy premiums for those impacted by the extreme storms and severe flooding in the counties declared as disaster areas by the state of Missouri. Details of this and additional actions being taken by the insurance companies follow below. The five companies are:
Yesterday in a historical and unprecedented move, the Pennsylvania legislature voted nearly unanimously in the affirmative for House Bill 1150 to mandate commercial insurance companies to cover some services for children with autism. The bill, introduced by House Speaker Dennis M. O'Brien, requires insurance companies to cover up to $36,000 of autism-related treatment for individuals less than 21 years old.
In celebration of its Grand Opening, the Noah's Bagels(R) restaurant located at 821 N. Douglas St. near the Atwood Way intersection, will offer 99 cent Breakfast and Lunch Sandwiches with the purchase of any drink to every guest who visits the restaurant on Monday and Tuesday, July 7 and 8, while supplies last.
SMU -- Jack St. Clair Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit (IC), or microchip, at Texas Instruments in 1958 revolutionized the world, creating limitless applications for computers, calculators, space-age technology and much more. For his contribution to the field of engineering, Kilby received numerous awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and induction into the Inventors Hall of Fame. Unknown to most people, however, is Kilby's artistic bent, which included making photographs of great sensitivity and beauty.
Rising Medical Solutions, Inc. (Rising), a leading medical cost containment and care management organization, has extended its offerings in California to include Utilization Review (UR) services in addition to its Medical Bill Review and Medical Provider Network (MPN) services in the State. This product line expansion is part of a corporate wide effort to provide a full-service managed care program in the California market for Rising's existing and growing customer base.
Laura Dean-Mooney, born and raised in Texas and now living in Florida, takes over as MADD's new National President this week. Just in time for the nation's celebration of July 4th and our country's independence and freedom, Dean-Mooney aims to make sure the public has the freedom to drive on roadways without the fear of drunk drivers sharing those roads. This holiday weekend is among the deadliest for drunk driving, especially given the long weekend for many. In 2005, nearly half (47 percent) of all traffic fatalities involved a drunk driver resulting in 182 people being killed over a four-day period. Countless others were injured.
PartnerRe Ltd. (NYSE: PRE) today announced dates for its 2008 second quarter and half year results press release and conference call.
Seeking to provide its franchises with an intuitive collision estimating solution that can efficiently communicate the repair process, Warren, Michigan-based Collision on Wheels has signed a multi-year agreement with CCC Information Services Inc. Collision on Wheels specializes in bringing professional mobile auto repair technology to the customer's home or workplace, conducting on-site dent repairs, painting and parts replacement. The agreement includes the utility of CCC Pathways(R) Basic Plus Collision Estimating with an accounting interface and CCC's Auto Workfile Entry.
Insteel Industries (Nasdaq: IIIN) today announced that its third-quarter 2008 earnings conference call will be webcast live over the internet on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. ET following the release of the Company's third-quarter financial results at 8:30 a.m. ET on that same day. The conference call can be accessed on the Company's website at http://investor.insteel.com/ and will be archived for replay.
Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CINF) today announced that Dirk J. Debbink, a director on the company's board since 2004, has been appointed Vice Admiral and Chief of Navy Reserve, U.S. Navy. Debbink was recalled to active military duty in Washington, D.C., and confirmed by the U.S. Senate effective June 27, 2008. He tendered his resignation from the Cincinnati Financial board of directors, effective June 30, 2008.
What better way to tell the 80-year history of Los Angeles headquartered Farmers(R) Insurance Group of Companies, than to hire award-winning, world-wide-known event designer and builder, Craig Parkinson. Parkinson was asked to design, build and fill a special Farmers Heritage Center to display eight decades of pictures, memorabilia, mementos, signs, film, publications, buttons, papers and oral histories for all past, present and future Farmers employees and agency force members to enjoy.
