Question: Peter Francese works with many non-profit organizations and major American corporations, such as one of  the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs with how many customers?

Context articles: Peter Francese
Defined benefit pension plan
Third-party administrator
MetLife
Corporate title
Kate Dillon Levin
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Engineering Projects In Community Service
Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila
StormGeo

Peter Francese (born February 21, 1941) is an American speaker and writer on the subject of populations and consumer trends.
 Francese works with many non-profit organizations and major American corporations, such as "MetLife" and others.
 He is a frequent contributor to "Advertising Age".
A defined benefit pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum (or combination thereof) on retirement that is predetermined by a formula based on the employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.
 Traditionally, many governmental and public entities, as well as a large number of corporations, provided defined benefit plans, sometimes as a means of compensating workers in lieu of increased pay.
 A defined benefit plan is 'defined' in the sense that the benefit formula is defined and known in advance.
 Conversely, for a "defined contribution retirement saving plan", the formula for computing the employer's and employee's contributions is defined and known in advance, but the benefit to be paid out is not known in advance.
 In the United States, specifies a defined benefit plan to be any pension plan that is not a defined contribution plan where a defined contribution plan is any plan with individual accounts.
 A traditional pension plan that "defines" a "benefit" for an employee upon that employee's retirement is a defined benefit plan.
A third-party administrator (TPA) is an organization that processes insurance claims or certain aspects of employee benefit plans for a separate entity.
 It is also a term used to define organizations within the Insurance industry which "administer" other services such as Underwriting, Customer Service and the like.
 This can be viewed as "outsourcing" the administration of the claims processing, since the TPA is performing a task traditionally handled by the company providing the insurance or the company itself.
 Often, in the case of insurance claims, a TPA handles the claims processing for an employer that self-insures its employees.
 Thus, the employer is acting as an insurance company and underwrites the risk.
 The risk of loss remains with the employer, and not with the TPA.
 An insurance company may also use a TPA to manage its claims processing, provider networks, utilization review, or membership functions.
 While some third-party administrators may operate as units of insurance companies, they are often independent.
MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates.
 MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries.
 The firm was founded on March 24, 1868.
Corporate titles or business titles are given to company and organization officials to show what duties and responsibilities they have in the organization.
 Such titles are used in publicly and privately held for-profit corporations.
 In addition, many non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and sole proprietorships also confer corporate titles.
Kate Dillon Levin (born March 2, 1974 in Washington D.C.) is an American model, activist and actress.
 She is best known for her work as a plus-size model where she appeared in multiple editorials in fashion magazines, appeared in cosmetics, plus-size, and designer campaigns, worked with top photographers on campaigns and in editorials and appeared in many mass media outlets.
 She was the first plus-size model to appear in U.S. Vogue and was the first plus-size model to appear in a Gucci campaign.
 Dillon has also been involved with many non-profit organizations, and is an advocate for eating disorder awareness and treatment, sustainability, global poverty reduction and social justice.
 She received her bachelor's degree in political science and international studies from University of St. Thomas and master's degree in international development from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
 Dillon was briefly married to Gabe Levin.
 During the marriage they had a son.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. was a global consulting firm that merged in January 2010 with Towers Perrin to form Towers Watson.
 The firm's services included managing the cost and effectiveness of employee benefit programs; developing attraction, retention and reward strategies; advising pension plan sponsors and other institutions on optimal investment strategies; providing strategic and financial advice to insurance and financial service companies; and delivering related technology, outsourcing and data services.
 Its principal operating subsidiary, Watson Wyatt & Company, was a human capital consulting firm with operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
 Its corporate offices were in Arlington, Virginia.
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) was founded in 1995 at Purdue University by Professors Edward Coyle and Leah Jamieson as a solution to two problems.
 First, many engineering graduates lacked real world skills need for project management, such as budgeting and scheduling.
 Second, many non-profit organizations did not have funding for needed professional engineering services to design displays and exhibits or keep relevant databases.
 The solution was to use the skills of undergraduate students through the curriculum to provide services to local non-profit organizations.
Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, 542 U.S. 200 (2004) , was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court limited the scope of the Texas Healthcare Liability Act (THCLA).
 The effective result of this decision was that the THCLA, which held Case Management and Utilization Review decisions by Managed Care entities like CIGNA and Aetna to a legal duty of care according to the laws of The State of Texas could not be enforced in the case of Health Benefit plans provided through private employers, because the Texas statute allowed compensatory or punitive damages to redress losses or deter future transgressions, which were not available under ERISA § 1132.
 The ruling still allows the State of Texas to enforce the THCLA in the case of Government-sponsored (Medicare, Medicaid, Federal, State, Municipal Employee, etc., Church-sponsored, or Individual Health Plan Policies (High-deductible individual policies, self-pay, any insurance not subsidised by a Private Employer), which are saved from preemption by ERISA.
 The history that allows these Private and Self-Pay Insurance to be saved dates to the "Interstate Commerce" power that was given the federal Government by the Supreme Court.
 ERISA, enacted in 1974, relied on the "Interstate Commerce" rule to allow federal jurisdiction over private employers, based on the need of private employers to follow a single set of paperwork and rules for pensions and other employee benefit plans where employers had employees in multiple states.
 Except for private employer plans, insurance can be regulated by the individual states, and Managed Care entities making medical decisions can be held accountable for those decisions if negligence is involved, as allowed by the Texas Healthcare Liability Act.
StormGeo is one of the largest global providers of decision support for weather sensitive operations.
 Through the provision of tailored weather forecasting services StormGeo helps companies to manage risk, control costs, plan better and increase revenue.
 Key industries served are offshore oil and gas , shipping , renewable energy , corporate onshore business, media and aviation industries.
 The company has received several awards for its achievements.