21st Century Holding Company Gives Guidance and Visibility for Its Fiscal Year.
PLANTATION, Fla., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- 21st Century Holding Company (Nasdaq: TCHC), which is a vertically integrated financial services holding company, gives guidance for its first fiscal quarter ending March 30, 2001 and visibility for the rest of its fiscal year ending December 31, 2001. ...

Schifrin, Gagnon & Dickey.
STEVE TILGHMAN has joined the senior management team at Schifrin, Gagnon & Dickey, the company has announced. Steve brings more than 33 years of adjusting, claims consulting and management experience in the property claims field. He previously worked as a regional claims manager at National American Insurance, an adjuster...

How to reconcile the split personality of the claims organization.
As claims organizations advance closer to the emerging paradigm of claims management, they will incorporate increasingly intensive approaches to subdividing the work of a claim. Veterans of the P&C claims industry often marvel at how the adjuster's role has changed over the past few decades. Once an...

Time to adjust: claims adjusters find it's heavy slogging as they try to reach clients left stranded by Hurricane Katrina.
What came first? The wind or the water? The answer may seem easy to someone living near a river that floods every spring. But ask someone in Bayou La Batre with a claim on the garbage, the mold and the mud that once was his business--where there are both...

The Wired Claim.
A steady stream of online software applications is being introduced that provide easier access to information, speed the claims process, and improve both medical and cost outcomes of claims. Today's Internet technology is bringing Web-based business solutions to virtually every industry, including disability management. For claims-handling professionals,...

Same goals, different directions. (Special Report: Claims Management and TPAS).
Risk managers and claims professionals are often at odds. Communication issues and unfamiliarity plague the process. Isn't it time you identified where the disconnect is between you and your claims management team? Just the news risk managers didn't want to hear--workers' comp rates are expected to rise...

Analyze this: health insurers can predict claims risks by studying policyholders' hobbies and grocery bills.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Given the extensive research into the effects of lifestyle factors on health, actuaries and insurers are investigating the possibility of using commercially available lifestyle data to price and deliver health-related insurance services. Such data are available for the vast majority of adults in...

Triaging claims for optimal outcomes: treating claims as active, breathing entities with their own characteristics, needs and timelines is the best way to insure the most efficient processing of them.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Similar to a triage nurse in an emergency room (ER), claims professionals must evaluate the severity of each claim that comes their way and quickly identify the appropriate next step. The better the diagnostic tools they have and the more treatment options available, the more...

State privacy laws leave RMs in the dark. (Regulation).
New statutes and regulations in the states that aim to ensure privacy could threaten to limit the ability of insurance companies to share information on workers' compensation and third-party liability claims with their policyholders. A wave of new state and federal privacy rules has been creeping across...

Twists and turns thread comp and disability show: the annual National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo was not without controversy nor irony, if you knew where to look.
In the 15 years that the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo has been in existence, never has it been as popular as it was last November. More than 2,400 attendees registered--double the 2005 attendance--and the number of booths sold in the expo hall jumped...