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ROUNDTABLE: Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island CEO and President Peter Marino, center, meets with staff at the health insurer’s Smithfield headquarters. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Turbulent time’ for those up for Medicaid renewal

Focus 09/01/2023

The staff at Thundermist Health Center has been bracing for a flood of work this year, and that flood has now arrived. The center, a...

Neighborhood Health Plan improves lives by thinking outside the box

Health Services 08/11/2023

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2023 500-1,499 Employees 2. Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island CEO (or equivalent): Peter Marino, CEO and president Number of employees:...

Stefan Petrella

Financial Services 07/21/2023

PBN 40 Under Forty 2023 Awards Stefan Petrella | 36 | Senior vice president, director of business development, arts, culture and entertainment, Starkweather &...

U.S. job openings dip to 9.8M in May yet still remain...

Economic Activity 07/06/2023

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. job openings slipped in May but remained at levels high enough to illustrate that the American labor market remains resilient...

William J. Hunt Jr. has been awarded the professional insurance designation...

People on the Move 04/21/2023

MALVERN, PA - William J. Hunt Jr, CPCU, ARM, AINS, CPIA has been awarded the professional insurance designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU®) by...

OPENING DOORS: Falvey Insurance Group Chief People Officer Roxanne Nelson created an internship program three years ago that has produced new employees within the insurance industry, including two now working full time at Falvey.  PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Falvey Insurance’s Nelson helps ensure a bright future for employees

Business Services 04/21/2023

2023 C-Suite Awards Midsize Private Company: Roxanne Nelson | Falvey Insurance Group chief people officer EMPLOYEES UNEXPECTEDLY RESIGNING. A global health crisis. Other employee-related matters. Many...

Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic

Business Services 04/10/2023

People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according...

PREPPING FOR CHANGE: Lindsay Lang, director of HealthSource RI, says the organization is taking steps to ease the change in health care coverage for the hundreds of people who will no longer be eligible for Medicare.  PBN PHOTO/CLAUDIA CHIAPPA

Medicaid renewals put state leaders on alert

Coronavirus 03/31/2023

Lindsay Lang feels a certain amount of pride that the rate of Rhode Islanders with health insurance coverage is among the highest in the...

DAN L. LATHROP, second from right, president of Lathrop Insurance Agency Inc. in Westerly, announced that the agency will open in May a new location in Cranston. /PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Lathrop Insurance to open new location in Cranston

Financial Services 03/22/2023

WESTERLY – A Washington County-based independent insurance agency is looking to tap into the northern Rhode Island market with a new location opening soon. Lathrop...