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Northwestern Mutual on Thursday announced how much it expects to pay policyholders next year in dividends. Vice president and chief actuary Jason Klawonn explained why the expected payout went up again this year.

WellRithms serves self-insured companies by reviewing medical claims for billing errors, fraud, abuse and other things that can inflate bills at the expense of employers.

Dr. Frank Lau came up with a way to find a better therapy match before it's tried out on the patient.

Editor's note: The Business Journal is providing this story to all readers as a public service as the region faces the threat of a government shutdown.

Washington is bracing for the increasing likelihood that the federal government will shut down next week, and how long a shutdown will last is anybody's guess.

There are some 370,000 thousand federal workers in the District, suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia and many of them could face furloughs or have their paychecks put on hold until…

The pandemic changed the American workplace, strikingly so for service-based companies like mine, Benchmark Senior Living. I could rattle off a litany of negative changes (staffing shortages, rising cost of doing business, etc.), but want to focus on a positive post-pandemic reality.

Finally, most businesses and other organizations are addressing — or are at least aware of — the critical need to support employees facing mental health issues. Covid didn’t create this need; it did, however,…

“They have exceeded all our expectations for growth and community involvement, so when they decide to expand, we’re thrilled this agreement will help them do that here in Whitehall.”

“Thanks to relief efforts like this, as well as the heartfelt support of so many people, we can all make a difference together to support those who were impacted,” Arnold Martines, president and CEO of CPB, said in a statement.

Minnesota's 10 largest locally based banks over the past year have on average more than doubled their use of “brokered” deposits, a type of deposit that regulators and experts say can carry more risk than ordinary deposits. The reason is simple, says one banker: “Cash is king”

The cost of temporary staffing at Massachusetts hospitals doubled in 2022, according to the latest report from CHIA. It was up five-fold from 2019, the year before the pandemic, according to the report.

SSM Health, the St. Louis-based multistate health system, said Thursday it would build a replacement facility for its pediatric hospital.