Defined Contribution Health Plans Overview. Recruiting and retaining key employees is important to every company, and a company's health benefit program is a key part of the compensation they offer to their employees. Due to the rising costs of traditional employer-sponsored health insurance, Defined Contribution Health Plans are gaining popularity in the U.S.
He attended Sheffield Scientific School of Yale in 1875. Jared Sidney Torrance was an American real estate developer, best known as the founder of Torrance, California in southwest Los Angeles County. Torrance was born in Gowanda, New York and moved to southern California in approximately 1887, settling initially in Pasadena where he worked in real estate.
Alan Shugart -- pioneer in computer disk drives. Published 4:00 am, Thursday, December 14, 2006. ** FILE ** Alan Shugart, Seagate Technology C.E.O., is shown in this January 7, 1997 file photo. Shugart, the co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC, has died, the company said Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, at age 76. Shugart helped pioneer the multibillion dollar hard drive industry, in which Seagate now holds the leading market position. He was also well known for his colorful and non-conformist tactics that included putting his dog up for election to Congress one year.