All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2005 // Q3 Insured Losses an All-Time Record: Pummeled by Hurricane Katrina and six other natural catastrophes in the third quarter, U.S. property/casualty insurers paid an all-time record $40.8 billion to homeowners and...
Nov 20 2005 // Lawmakers Pass Kids’ Health Plan:The Illinois House passed H.B. 806, Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s “All Kids” health insurance program on a 79-28 vote, following Senate approval on a 32-23 vote. The...
Nov 20 2005 // Q3 Insured Losses an All-Time Record: Pummeled by Hurricane Katrina and six other natural catastrophes in the third quarter, U.S. property/casualty insurers paid an all-time record $40.8 billion to homeowners and...
Nov 10 2005 // Divorced individuals pay 26 percent more for health insurance premiums on a monthly basis than married individuals, who pay 25 percent more than singles ($242, $180, $136 average per month, respectively), according to a...
Nov 9 2005 // Louisiana Department of Insurance issued a second notice regarding the Emergency Rules that require insurance companies to give policyholders affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita an automatic extension of time...
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOISGarrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Nov 4 2005 // Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe filed suit against Peoples Benefit Services Inc., a company that claims to offer discounts on prescription drugs, the AG’s office announced.Based in Pennsylvania, Peoples Benefit...
Nov 2 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance issued a reminder that the department’s Emergency Rules required insurance companies to give policyholders affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita an automatic extension...
Oct 31 2005 // Nebraska state employees will pay 22.1 percent more for health insurance next year, after union representatives and administrators failed to reach a compromise.The rising premiums will cost taxpayers about $21.4 million...
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that the Oklahoma Insurance Department will issue expedited temporary licenses to volunteers who are assisting senior citizens to enroll in the new Medicare Part D Prescription...
Oct 16 2005 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley has ordered health insurance companies in Louisiana to keep covering victims of Hurricane Katrina, even if they cannot pay their premiums, according to the Associated Press...
Oct 12 2005 // House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi vowed to deliver a bill dramatically expanding health care coverage to the uninsured in Massachusetts but shied away from offering specifics.DiMasi said the bill, which he promised to place...
Oct 12 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer is leaving his state job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a Delaware-based health insurance company.“It’s just a perfect...
Oct 5 2005 // More than 12,000 Missouri families saw health insurance on their children lapse this week when they failed to pay new premiums required by the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program.The new premiums, which...
Oct 4 2005 // Saying that affordable health care should be within the reach for all Rhode Islanders, Governor Donald L. Carcieri this week laid out a series of five initiatives to improve the state’s system of care by the eyar...
Sep 29 2005 // After months of blocking a Senate bill because he claimed it shortchanged his state, Sen. Dick Durbin announced Thursday that he has won assurances that Illinois’ state health insurance pool would get an extra $1.6...
Sep 29 2005 // Attorney General Charlie Crist has warned Florida seniors to be on the lookout for con artists who may try to take advantage of consumers as they shop for new Medicare prescription drug coverage plans. As of Oct. 1,...
Sep 26 2005 // The Ohio Legislature is looking at plans to help patients with expensive conditions – lung disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other ailments – buy the drugs they need for treatment.However, the plans would...
Sep 26 2005 // Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans Inc. has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide prescription drug plan coverage to Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina, Mississippi and...
Sep 22 2005 // GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $150 million to settle claims it overcharged the government for two anti-nausea drugs, and prosecutors say they’re looking into 150 cases of drug price fraud.The Glaxo settlement is the...