All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 9 2006 // New Jersey will consider adopting a program that “approaches universal health care” as it seeks to provide health insurance to small businesses and uninsured residents, the governor said recently.Gov. Jon S....
Aug 6 2006 // With Maryland’s groundbreaking Wal-Mart health care bill declared invalid by a federal judge, state officials are re-examining their options for providing medical care to many of the almost 800,000 people who have no...
Jul 27 2006 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger wants Kansas seniors to know that the “$299 Ring” scam recently has escalated into a higher priced scam involving, in some cases, a new Medicare card, instead of a...
Jul 21 2006 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has announced a new policy to issue refunds to nonsmoking individual policyholders who, although eligible, have not been paying tobacco-free premium rates.“Blue Cross has done...
Jul 18 2006 // Approximately 43 percent of the reported 6.7 million California residents that qualify for government-sponsored health insurance aren’t signed up, according to statewide studies. Upon discovering this information,...
Jul 17 2006 // Gov. Matt Blunt recently signed legislation aimed at increasing access to affordable health insurance for employees of small businesses.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jay Wasson, R-Nixa, expands eligibility for association...
Jul 17 2006 // Pennsylvania’s two largest health insurers are discussing a possible merger, which could happen as early as September.Independence Blue Cross, based in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. are part of the...
Jul 11 2006 // It’s not just the Italian Football (soccer) team that’s in an expansive mood. Italy’s Generali Group announced that it has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 51 percent shareholding in Bulgarian...
Jul 7 2006 // A conservative group this week filed suit to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers and said the school is violating a 2004 amendment to the state constitution.The...
Jul 7 2006 // The Rhode Island General Assembly recently passed the Health Care Affordability Act, a set of 14 bills intended to lower health insurance costs for small businesses, strengthen state control over provider expansion,...
Jul 6 2006 // According to Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, the 2006 Delaware General Assembly session produced some positive accomplishments, but also left some of what he says are his pro-consumer initiatives undone.“There are...
Jul 5 2006 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman warned seniors and other Medicare recipients to be on the look out for telephone scams. Callers, posing as representatives of fictitious companies such as Pharma Corp.,...
Jul 3 2006 // Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has signed a General Assembly bill that allows small businesses to collectively purchase health insurance, a measure supporters hope will help address health care concerns within the...
Jun 29 2006 // Public policymakers are considering cost containment measures to bring the costs of prescription drugs used to treat injured workers more into line with similar costs in group health or government insurance programs,...
Jun 21 2006 // The Florida Department of Financial Services has released its annual “Top-10 Fraud List,” summarizing 10 of the costliest or boldest securities, finance and insurance fraud scams investigated by the DFS...
Jun 20 2006 // Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has signed a General Assembly bill that allows small businesses to collectively purchase health insurance, which supportershope will help address health care concerns within the...
Jun 12 2006 // Gov. Brad Henry on June 9 signed into law a bill to expand health insurance coverage to small businesses and their employees.It was among more than a dozen bills passed during the final week of the legislative session that...
Jun 5 2006 // Zurich announced that Oliver Ade has been named regional executive for the company’s North Central Region. Ade will be responsible for all business operations within the region, including profit-and-loss objectives,...
May 31 2006 // Details about allegations that two of Ohio’s largest health insurers paid independent agents to steer government entities to their plans cannot legally be released even though the companies have paid settlements to...
May 16 2006 // Department of Insurance Director Dale Finke today praised the Missouri Legislature for passing House Bill 1827, which will allow more small employers to obtain health insurance for their employees.According to release...