All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2009 // Lobbyists for property/casualty insurance agents have elevated health care reform to the top of their political agenda.P/C agents have addressed health insurance legislation in the past but the issue has taken on new...
May 18 2009 // Property/casualty insurance agents have elevated health care reform to the top of their political agenda; the matter is now just a notch below the perennial battle against federal regulation of insurance on their...
May 15 2009 // House Democrats are looking at big health care changes, including federal aid to help families earning up to $88,000 pay for insurance and a requirement that all must carry coverage.A document obtained by The Associated...
May 12 2009 // President Barack Obama’s plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality after leaders of the health care industry offered $2 trillion in spending reductions over 10 years...
Apr 23 2009 // An advocacy group criticized Oklahoma legislative leaders on April 21 for what it described as a host of bills that help the health insurance industry at the expense of consumers.Dr. Rene McNall Knapp, who specializes in...
Apr 6 2009 // California Assembly Member Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, has introduced AB 1521, “Health care coverage: solicitation,” that would establish a fiduciary duty for persons or entities that submit an application to a...
Mar 30 2009 // California Assembly Member Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, has introduced AB 1521, “Health care coverage: solicitation,” that would establish a fiduciary duty for persons or entities that submit an application to a...
Mar 4 2009 // Nebraska’s highest court will determine whether a state insurance guaranty fund must cover nearly $1 million in losses suffered by 26 Nebraskans in a life insurance deal.The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments...
Mar 2 2009 // Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said Saturday.The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Obama...
Feb 9 2009 // Senior Market Sales, Inc. has partnered with CalSurance (Brown and Brown of California, Inc.) to offer errors and omissions insurance at discounted rates for life and health insurance agents who do business with Senior...
Dec 18 2008 // A tax break that takes effect for many Alabama small businesses on Jan. 1 is being implemented by state tax officials to cover as many companies as possible. State Revenue Commissioner Tim Russell said his department is...
Dec 5 2008 // President-elect Barack Obama has begun laying the groundwork for overhauling the troubled U.S. healthcare system, reaching out to interest groups and building grass-roots support for the huge undertaking.Obama, who takes...
Nov 25 2008 // Insurance companies must treat same-sex couples in New York who were legally married outside the state the same as any other validly married couples, irrespective of the sex of the spouses, Insurance Superintendent Eric...
Nov 20 2008 // The nation’s health insurers have proposed guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual coverage mandate.Under the industry proposal, health plans...
Nov 16 2008 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, the 64-year-old Democrat, easily won his third term as Washington state insurance commissioner, defeating Republican John Adams, who owns a Seattle-based insurance brokerage firm 57...
Oct 24 2008 // Eleven computer disks containing personal information on thousands of Ohio retirees are missing and are believed to be somewhere in the US Postal Service, Medical Mutual of Ohio recently announced.The disks contain member...
Oct 6 2008 // North Dakota’s Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm was appointed to fill the vacancy left by a popular Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman, who left 17 months early to take a job in the private sector. Amid the flack...
Oct 2 2008 // A new actuarial analysis finds health insurance purchasing arrangements – also called connectors, exchanges, and health insurance purchasing cooperatives – lead to higher health insurance premiums and fail to...
Aug 18 2008 // Ohio will receive $541,000 as part of a health insurer’s $20 million settlement of allegations that it misled consumers and mishandled claims. State Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson said Friday, August...
Aug 15 2008 // Private-sector employers and their employees have seen their health insurance premium costs more than double in the last decade, according to a recent survey by a federal agency.Private-sector employers and their employees...