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...help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3,100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Amica employees had doubled in four years. "We thought, O.K.," Boyd says now, "we have to manage these high-risk groups a little better...
...Amica Mutual, Boyd awaits the forthcoming results of employees' health-risk assessments, conducted last fall with high staff participation, thanks to a program that allowed workers to take medical tests on-site. Boyd asks, "What are some of the other chronic conditions our employees have? Do they need to work on cardiovascular? Depression? Asthma-type issues?" Whether it's a persistent illness or a failed New Year's resolution, maybe a well-placed nudge can help get them back on track...
Flight Plans. Domestic airlines will be carrying 6.6% to 8% fewer passengers in 2009, according to a new report by the Boyd Group. Airlines will respond to the decline by cutting capacity 10% - but if they don't raise fares now, they'll still lose an estimated $7 billion in revenue this year. Which could result in more add-on fees for travelers or fare hikes down the line. The Boyd group is not predicting a return to 2008 capacities until...
...recession is hitting Las Vegas on all fronts. Nevada legislators have struggled to close a deficit of more than $1 billion in the 2009 budget. Budget projections for 2010 and 2011 also look grim. Construction on Boyd Gaming's $4.8 billion Echelon resort was stopped last August just as three of its towers reached the 12th floor (the tallest would have risen to 55 stories). Construction won't resume until 2010, though the cranes will remain towering above the site (it's cheaper to leave them in place - and these days no one else in town needs them...
...Clymer particularly noted that, over the course of his career on The Times, he especially enjoyed his role in training a number of journalists, including E.J. Dionne ’73, a current Washington Post columnist and former Crimson editor; Gerald M. Boyd, the first black managing editor of The Times; and Pulitzer Prize-winning Times columnist Maureen Dowd...