Kroll pushes hard on healthcare ID theft

Nashville-based Kroll Inc. began a month ago promoting its anti-fraud services a month or more ago, after the FTC delayed until August enforcement of Red Flag Rules related to ID theft. Today, Kroll issued a release touting its new "enhanced data breach preparedness program," targeting healthcare providers. The package contains risk-assessment tools, training, incident response and legislative and regulatory updates.

Relocations, consolidations

Two separate Nashville operations are consolidating in Chattanooga offices: Platinum Financial Funding, a mortgage-loan packager, is moving its HQ into existing Noog offices, to better reach markets in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, according to reported comments by Founder-President Chris Payne, who had been based here. Elsewhere, at least 11 have been laid off in Nashville and Loudon, as nationwide metals distributor Ryerson Inc. consolidates in Chattanooga, citing cost-cutting and efficiency. No word on whether the Volkswagen-Wacker Bubble may be tilting consolidation decisions in favor of Chattanooga, but there is mounting evidence that companies plan to get by with fewer outposts. A third company, multilevel marketer Ecoquest International, based in Greeneville, Tenn., has been bought by Dallas-based Aerus Holdings, and layoffs are apparently in prospect following integration of operations. Ecoquest apparently had FTC legal problems, earlier this decade.