OF NOTE
• The city of Hartford is taking new steps to ensure diabetic government employees and their covered dependents are staying healthy. City workers and their family members with diabetes will soon be invited to enroll in a new diabetes management program which offers cash rewards for successfully keeping up with their medical checkups and lab tests. The city has partnered with Abacus Employer Health Solutions, creator of the Good Health Gateway Diabetes program, to better manage the high incidence of diabetes in the city’s health plan of 7 percent.
• Pullman & Comley attorneys and staff marched with members of Hartford’s St. Augustine Church in the March of Dimes’ annual March for Babies on April 26. Team Pullman & Comley raised nearly $10,000 to help end premature births and birth defects and to help babies begin healthy lives.
• Prudential Connecticut Realty has been ranked fourth in gross commission income out of 2,100 Prudential real estate affiliates in North America, announced Peter Helie, chairman and CEO. With 1,600 sales executives located throughout Connecticut and 56 offices, Prudential Connecticut Realty earned $3.39 billion in sales volume and closed more than 8,700 transactions last year.
• CB Richard Ellis Inc., which has significant operations in New England, has been named the world’s fastest-growing retail property manager by Chain Store Age. The retail industry publication’s May issue reported that the company added 18.7 million square feet of new global retail property management assignments in 2008, 35 percent more than the next-highest-ranked provider. Chain Store Age noted that the “pros are back in charge, helping to stabilize distressed assets and improve already-healthy ones.”
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