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Legal Documents for Your Graduating Senior

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If you are a parent with a child who will graduate from high school soon, now is a good time to start planning what documents the child will need moving forward.

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If you have a child who recently turned 18, you need to start thinking about the potential legal implications and how best to protect your child’s interests. Estate planning is not always about planning for death, but it is

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Elevance Health to Acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

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What You Need to Know

  • Elevance has 47 million health plan enrollees.
  • Louisiana Blue has 1.9 million enrollees.
  • One thing both have in common: a relatively low share of the private Medicare plan market.

Elevance Health — the health insurance giant formerly known as Anthem — has agreed to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.

Elevance, an Indianapolis-based company with about $160 billion in annual revenue and 47 million health plan enrollees, would be getting a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based carrier with $4 billion in annual revenue and 1.9 million health plan enrollees.

Elevance expects to pay for Louisiana

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Aditya Birla Health Insurance in bancassurance partnership with Punjab & Sind Bank

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NEW DELHI: Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Ltd. (ABHICL), the health insurance joint venture of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (ABCL), on Friday announced having signed a bancassurance partnership with Punjab & Sind Bank for distribution of health insurance products through the bank’s network of branches across India.

This partnership will enable ABHICL to expand its national footprint and reach Punjab & Sind Bank’s widely distributed network of 1,528 branches and its customers.

Punjab & Sind Bank’s customers and employees will have access to ABHICL’s comprehensive suite of health-first insurance plans, which are aimed at rewarding customers for practicing a healthy

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Report: Health Insurance Should Cover Non-Medical Services

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Medical care makes up just a fraction of what determines a person’s health, and a new study makes the case that Medicaid in Texas should support non-medical services because of their health impacts and return on investment. While medical experts and public health officials have long been touting the importance of the social determinants of health, the report from Episcopal Health Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies provides some hard evidence about why these services should be funded in the Lone Star State.

Healthcare leaders always want issues addressed upstream. Early cancer detection results in better outcomes and

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Advice to first-time health insurance buyers

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The intermittent recurrence of Covid has started impacting lives yet again with the new Omicron subvariant, BF.7 causing an uptick in cases. This has once again brought the spotlight to the significance of having an adequate health insurance policy. Keeping this in view, the regulatory authority of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has also recently reached out to insurers to take a stock of their preparedness.

Amid the fresh spurt in cases, having a sound financial safety net is of utmost importance. However, if you are someone who’s going to buy health insurance for the first

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Salesforce laid off over 7,000 workers as it hired ‘too many people’ in the pandemic

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San Francisco, Jan 5 (IANS) Enterprise software company Salesforce has announced to lay off 10 per cent of its workforce, impacting more than 7,000 employees.

In a letter to employees, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the environment remains “challenging” and our customers are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions.

“With this in mind, we’ve made the very difficult decision to reduce our workforce by about 10 percent, mostly over the coming weeks,” wrote Benioff.

Last month, Benioff said that those who were hired by the company during the Covid pandemic were “facing lower productivity”.

In the

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