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The Hartford selling brokerage Woodbury to AIG

Peter Westerman | August 01, 2012

The sale of the unit is the first of three transactions planned by Hartford under its strategy of focusing on its property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds businesses.

Medicare fraud busters unveil command center

Peter Westerman | August 01, 2012

Medicare's war on fraud is going high-tech with the opening of a $3.6 million command center that features a giant screen and the latest computer and communications gear. That's raising expectations, as well as some misgivings.

Potential defense cuts would skip personnel

Peter Westerman | August 01, 2012

President Barack Obama would exempt military personnel from any automatic defense spending cuts, the White House says amid the congressional clamor for specifics on how the administration would implement the looming across-the-board reductions.

ADP's second-quarter profit climbs 7 percent

Peter Westerman | August 01, 2012

Automatic Data Processing Inc., the world's biggest payroll processor, said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 7 percent as it benefited from some new hiring in a slowly improving economy.

ACOs a top priority—eventually

Peter Westerman | August 01, 2012

Accountable care organizations top a long list of should-be priorities for the health care industry, a new survey finds, though by reviewing some numbers, you wouldnt know it.

Feds post benefits summary aids

Allison Bell | August 01, 2012

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is trying to get employers and their benefits advisors ready to issue summaries of benefits and coverage (SBCs) by the Sept. 23 compliance date.