Corzine signs autism insurance enhancements into law

Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law new rules requiring insurers to cover the screening and therapeutic treatment of autism, making it the 15th state in the U.S. to require ...  Read →  Read Story

Wrynn appointed as superintendent of New York Insurance Department

A little over three months after Gov. David A. Paterson tapped him to head the New York Insurance Fund, the governor has appointed James J. Wrynn as the next superintendent ...  Read →  Read Story

The Hartford returns $48 million in workers’ comp. profits to Florida

Hartford Financial Services Group will return $48.2 million in excess profits it earned on its workers’ compensation policies over a three-year period in a deal with Florida regulators.

Kevin McCarty

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A handful of employees at Salisbury, Md.-based Avery Hall Benefit Solutions were recently honored by the Leading Producers Round Table of the National Association of Health Underwriters.

Mary Mengason, Richard Prettyman, ...  Read →  Read Story

Tort reform favored over health care reform, survey finds

Two-thirds of Americans would like to see health care costs cut in ways different than President Barack Obama and Congress are considering in their health insurance reform plans.

The majority of ...  Read →  Read Story

New York Career News: Dowd joins Wells Fargo, other notables

John Dowd was named regional managing director at Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group for the Northeast Region, including New Jersey and New York.

John Dowd

Dowd will oversee wealth management in ...  Read →  Read Story

New year, same summer swoon for U.S. life applications

Despite changing economic conditions, this summer showed remarkable similarity to the previous two in application activity for individually written life insurance.

The July activity for all ages combined was down 0.9%, ...  Read →  Read Story

Auerbach named Agent of the Year by New Jersey agents’ group

An executive of E & K Agency of Eatontown and Lakewood, N.J., recently was honored for his contribution and commitment to the insurance industry.

Kenneth R. Auerbach

Kenneth R. Auerbach, a ...  Read →  Read Story

Insurance regulators in Virginia will hold a hearing in October to consider a series of workers’ compensation rate adjustments requested by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

Based in Boca Raton, ...  Read →  Read Story

Research: Insurers’ website traffic down; information searches up

U.S. consumers are definitely logging on to their computers for information on health care, but they are obtaining it more through searches of key terms than through the web domains ...  Read →  Read Story