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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has added Daniel J. Pierro, Jr. as principal and senior employee benefits consultant. His addition comes through the acquisition of his company P&C Financial and Insurance Services, Inc. where he was owner and president. Pierro brings a strong background in all phases of employee benefits consulting.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — People need insurance, but do retirement funds? ‘Absolutely,’ says Jonas Roeser, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Operations for LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP). ‘If you’re not thinking about your own health as you age, think about the health of your 401k or IRA. If your retirement vehicle becomes disabled or loses life blood, how can it support you when you need it?’

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services, LLC (WTCI) announced today that wholesale brokerage industry veteran David Bamford has joined the firm as vice president/casualty broker.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — MCT Trading, Inc. (MCT), a recognized leader in hedging and risk management, has announced that Rhonda Beck has joined the firm as regional sales director for its Charlotte, North Carolina office, and will lead the company’s expansion in the Southeast Unites States.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today LTC Financial Partners, LLC (LTCFP), which educates Americans on the need to plan for long-term care, announces a strategic alliance with Caregiver Services Inc. (CSI), which provides in-home care so people don’t have to leave their homes to receive care elsewhere.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, has enhanced the e-signature options for the idsDoc platform. Changes were made based on the feedback and demand of customers and reflect the growing demand for more sophisticated e-signature capabilities that also keeps the process simple for borrowers and lenders alike.

CARSON, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — DocMagic, Inc., the mortgage industry’s leading provider of compliant loan document solutions, announced that Laurie Spira has joined the company as chief compliance officer.

NEW CANAAN, Conn. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Prevail Consulting, Inc., a leading insurance industry consulting and technology services provider, today announced a contract with Triple-S Propiedad, Inc. to license the Prevail Reinsurance System to support all of Triple-S’s reinsurance operations. Triple-S Propiedad has utilized a variety of Prevail’s technology consulting services over the past 10 years.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at least 70 percent of Americans over 65 will need long-term care services at some point. And Prudential Financial Inc. notes that 74 percent of consumers age 55 to 65 (about three in every four of us) polled for a recent survey said they are concerned about needing some kind of long term care.

DENVER, Colo. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Titan Lenders Corp (TLC), a U.S.-based domestic mortgage fulfillment outsource operation, and Grid Financial Services, Inc. (Grid Financial), a U.S.-based domestic business process outsource provider for loan processing, underwriting, and default services, have created a full service best practices loan fulfillment service that will allow mortgage lenders to accelerate market entry, reduce overhead, and establish credibility with mission critical partners.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — According to Curt Doman, president of International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, 2010 marked the second year in a row the firm saw significant growth in the number of document packages prepared. In addition to a 23 percent increase in doc volume over 2009, IDS also achieved company record numbers in Q2 and Q3 for the amount of doc packages prepared in a single month.

SAN MATEO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, announced today that Allen Amos and Nancy Hahn have been recognized by Risk and Insurance magazine as 2011 property and casualty insurance ‘Power Brokers.’

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services, LLC (WTCI) announced today that wholesale brokerage industry veteran, Mark Morgan, has joined the firm as vice president/property broker.

WALL, N.J. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Peter Grandich, founder of Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management Company, Atlantic Avenue, announced today that mortgage industry expert and Broadway Producer Barry Habib, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Robert F. Munoz, have joined the company’s corporate advisory board.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, integrated risk-based pricing notices into the idsDoc system on January 1, 2011, per the deadline set in the December 2009 final ruling by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Reserve Board (FRB).

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — MCT Trading, Inc., a leading hedging and risk management firm, announced that its COO, Philip Rasori, will speak on a panel session that addresses the state of capital markets. The panel is being held by the Mortgage Bankers Association of Florida at the Grand Hyatt in Tampa Bay, Florida on Thursday, February 10, 2011.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has added Amenda-Ming Chen as an employee benefits Account Executive in its San Francisco office. Amenda brings a strong background in employee benefits consulting including benefit plan design, wellness planning, financial analysis, underwriting and benefit plan valuation.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — For three years in a row (2008, 2009, and 2010), LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP) has been selected by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies. And among large national agencies specializing in LTC insurance sales, none is growing faster than LTCFP. What accounts for this?

DENVER, Colo. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In accelerated growth mode throughout the year, Titan Lenders Corp (TLC) added eight mortgage lenders as clients in the second half of 2010, and experienced a twofold 2009 to 2010 volume increase. TLC, a U.S.-based domestic mortgage fulfillment outsource operation, offers a parallel and variable cost alternative solution to lenders that need to maintain back office and warehouse line management operations.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, announces a major new initiative for public entities nationwide. Recognizing the need for more creative and effective risk management strategies for the public sector, EPIC has organized an integrated team to meet this need.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP) reveals one of its marketing secrets: ‘electronic business cards’ that supply an agent’s name, address, and phone number, just as old-fashioned business cards do, but with a difference. The electronic variety ‘can’t be misplaced, and they establish credibility by providing helpful, detailed information,’ says Jonas Roeser, LTCFP’s Senior Vice President of Marketing & Operations.

PETALUMA, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, announces the addition of North Bay business professional Adam Heher in the company’s Petaluma, Calif. office. Heher has deep ties to the North Bay, having lived and worked in the community his entire life.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, and Del Mar DataTrac®, Inc. (DMD), the leading provider of affordable mortgage lending automation solutions, and an industry pioneer in business intelligence, paperless lending, and loan process workflow tools, have rebuilt their partner interface to improve mortgage lenders’ experience with the idsDoc platform and the DataTrac loan origination system of record.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Virtual Law Partners LLP is very pleased to announce that Denise Zack has joined the firm’s Commercial Lending practice. Ms. Zack joins VLP from the Virginia office of Cooley LLP, where she served as special counsel in the Credit Finance and Leasing Finance practice groups and represented both institutional lenders and company borrowers in debt financings.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Supreme Lending, a full service mortgage banker, has selected International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage doc prep vendor, as its vendor of record for closing documents. As a full service mortgage banker with multi-state licenses, Supreme is able to provide customers with a wide variety of loan products, lower interest rates and closing costs and faster turnaround time.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Curt Doman, president of International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, says lenders who have not adopted the Model Privacy Form are exposing themselves to unnecessary risk. Lenders are not required to adopt the Model Form and may, in fact, develop their own form to use.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, announced it has begun to phase out the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC) in response to an October 15 directive from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stating that the HVCC will no longer be the standard bearer for the protection of the home appraisal process beginning in 2011.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — According to the Society of Actuaries, the leading cause of U.S. long-term care claims is Alzheimer’s. Who cares? Evidently President Obama does. ‘We praise the President for his words and the legislation behind them,’ says Jonas Roeser, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Operations for LTC Financial Partners, LLC (LTCFP), one of the nation’s most experienced long-term care insurance agencies.

WALL, N.J. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Market and economic commentator Peter Grandich has long stated that one of the biggest maladies with the American economy is our obsession with ‘stuff.’ The boom in the self-storage industry, he says, is symbolic of our addiction to excess.

WALL, N.J. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Peter Grandich, dubbed the ‘Wall Street Whiz Kid’ on national television for calling the 1987 ‘Black Monday’ market crash, has been making major top and bottom calls for 26 years. Now, Grandich has his bear suit back on, and is calling for a new top.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP) announces the availability of ‘true cost’ estimates for long term care insurance policies from multiple carriers. According to LTCFP, the actual out-of-pocket expense of any LTC policy is usually less than the stated premium. Why?

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Nov. 17, 2010 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Specifically designed for CPAs, attorneys and enrolled agents, PitBullTax.com – a Web-based IRS tax resolution software – gives practitioners the tools, confidence and support to take control of difficult cases. Whether clients owe years of back taxes or have fines and penalties that they cannot pay; PitBullTax is the answer.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Reports of the death of long-term care insurance are highly exaggerated, according to LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP), one of the nation’s largest and most experienced LTCI agencies. Last Thursday, when MetLife announced it would stop selling new LTCI coverage, ‘It wasn’t the end of the world,’ says Cameron Truesdell, LTCFP’s CEO.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Americans planning to buy long-term care insurance in 2011 may deduct a larger portion of their premiums than ever, thanks to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, raised more than $6,000 for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity during the IDS Cycling Challenge at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) 97th Annual Convention and Expo in Atlanta. IDS staff members, partners and conference attendees pedaled for a combined total of 202.06 miles over two days.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A new employee benefit is coming for millions of American employees: access to affordable long-term care insurance. So says Dan Cahn, an industry expert. LTCI provides funds for in-home or nursing-home care in case of longer-lasting illnesses or disabilities not covered by regular health insurance. Cahn is Senior Vice President of Business Development for LTC Financial Partners, LLC (LTCFP).

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, has been approved by Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) to provide mortgage documents via e-delivery to loan applicants. The approval covers e-delivery for all mortgage documents, but typically, initial and pre-disclosures are the primary documents submitted to loan applicants electronically.

ATLANTA, Ga. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Depth Public Relations (DepthPR), an Atlanta provider of public relations, Internet search visibility, and marketing strategies for the mortgage lending and financial services industries, has pledged its financial support in a fundraising challenge presented by document preparation vendor International Document Services at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) 97th Annual Convention and Expo.

ATLANTA, Ga. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, and Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, one of the top producers of affordable home ownership opportunities among U.S. Habitat affiliates, have teamed up to challenge attendees at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) 97th Annual Convention and Expo to raise $10,000 for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Stagnant economy? Jobs hard to come by? If you’re an employer, jobs too risky to create? One company – LTC Financial Partners LLC – isn’t buying in to the doom and gloom. They’re bucking the trend with bullish expansion plans. ‘We need 300 new people now, in all parts of the country,’ says Denise Gott, LTCFP’s Chairman of the Board.