Archive for February, 2009

XL Unicorn acquires underwriting capacity building Equine

XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Capital, said “strengthening capacity of equine” With the acquisition of underwriting and claims team based in London, Unicorn Underwriting Limited, a subsidiary THB Group plc. “The five-person team is led by Guy Morrison, who has over 20 years of underwriting experience in the international market of sickness [...]

Sunday Conversation: Health care, with a Texas perspective

Todd Ackerman Nov 08, 2009 (Houston Chronicle – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) – James Rohack is the president of the American Medical Association, which is meeting in Houston through Tuesday. A graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and a cardiologist in Temple, Rohack has led efforts to lobby Congress to [...]

2nd LD Writethru: U.S. Senate votes to move health care reform bill forward

The U.S. Senate voted on Saturday night to move an overhaul health care reform bill forward, removing the first procedural hurdle for the bill to be passed in the chamber. Supported by all of the 60 Democratic and independent senators, the bill was voted to be in a full-scale debate in the Senate starting Nov. [...]

Neotys Partners with ICEsoft to Provide Stress and Load Testing for ICEfaces Applications

Neotys, a provider of load testing tools for web applications, announced that it has partnered with ICEsoft Technologies, to offer load and stress testing support for ICEfaces applications. ICEfaces is an open source Ajax framework for developing and deploying thin-client, rich enterprise applications in pure Java. ICEfaces delivers a responsive Java EE web application to [...]