Health Care

Humana Inc. has promoted Kristine Seymour to president of the company's Wisconsin market. Seymour will report to Larry Rambo,...

The concerns over soaring health care costs has led to intense examination of factors that influence consumer health choices...

A Milwaukee manufacturer cuts its health care costs, increases its profits and improves its workers' quality of life by implementing...

Wisconsin business owners, homeowners and drivers can expect to see either modest increases or reductions in their property and casualty insurance premiums in 2007. P&C insurance in Wisconsin and its surrounding states, including Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Iowa, had premium decreases of 1 percent in the past nine months and a decrease of 0.2 percent in 2005, said Genio Staranczak, chief economist for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, based in Des Plaines, Ill.

Some small- and medium-sized business owners are combating rising health insurance benefit costs with the help of an online tool launched by Humana Inc.
The Louisville, Ky.-based insurance company has created the Broker Benefit Utilization Director, or Broker BUD.

Health insurance costs are expected to increase again in 2007, although not by as much as in some recent years, local health insurance brokers say. Still, as health care costs continue to escalate, more businesses are asking their employees to shoulder a greater share of their health insurance costs. Many firms are creating health benefits packages with high deductibles, often combined with a health savings account (HSA) or a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA). That trend is also expected to continue in 2007, health insurance brokers say.

A West Milwaukee-based small-business owner was able to save potentially 30 percent on his property casualty insurance premiums, or...

Peter Schwabe Inc., a design/build construction firm based in Big Bend, recently began a construction project to rebuild the...

Greg Kolton is leading an effort to create the Veteran’s Bell Tower Memorial, a proposed three-story, 58-foot-tall bell tower...

Greg and Heidi Kolton are entrepreneurs, and they’ve made working with entrepreneurs and start-up businesses a priority for Foundations...