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In the two months since UMass Memorial Health Care and Springfield-based Baystate Health announced they were exploring a potential collaboration, the two hospital systems have said little about how they might join forces to realize efficiencies and improve quality, as UMass spokesman Robert Brogna said was the intention back in September.

Consolidation of an Avery Dennison segment acquired by Toronto-based specialty packaging company CCL Industries, Inc. will result in the closure of supply chain operations in Holliston and the majority of its employees will be laid off as of Feb. 1, according to Sean Washchuk, chief financial officer for CCL. The segment, a consumer office products business called Avery, is part of a consolidation of operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to a statement released by the company Oct. 30. The company's other Massachusetts supply chain operations in Chicopee are also slated to close. The consolidation will impact 250 Mass. employees, with only a small group of employees relocating and keeping their jobs, according to Washchuk. He declined to disclose the number of employees located in Holliston. No one answered the phone Monday afternoon at the Holliston location at 89 Cross St.

Profits jumped while revenue fell in the most recent quarter at Unum Group.

Third-quarter profits nearly doubled at The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. of Worcester due to growth in its commercial lines, the company said Wednesday.

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Following a three-year hiatus, Harvard Pilgrim will once again offer Medicare Advantage in Worcester County.

The Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) late last week said it was “gravely disappointed” with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius's denial of Gov. Deval Patrick's request for a waiver on health insurance rating-factor limitations under federal health care reform.

On the same day that it was ranked the top private health plan in the U.S. for the 10th straight year, non-profit insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care on Thursday disclosed that it has reduced its workforce by 65.

The Hanover Insurance Group, based in Worcester, has joined a national insurance agent partnership to strengthen its bonds within the industry.

Minuteman Health, the state's only member-governed health insurance plan, received its license to operate from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) and had its premium rates approved so it can sell plans in 2014.