Costs for commercial insurance, Medicare care increasing more slowly

The average cost of health care services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs decreased slightly in the year ending in November 2010, with Medicare claims costs showing a sharper decline in growth.  Read Story

Aon accused of failing to protect D.C. Metro from casualty losses

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has filed suit against Aon Risk Services, saying the insurance advisor failed to protect the operators of the Washington, D.C., Metro system from “avoidable out-of-pocket casualty losses.”  Read Story

Lititz Mutual Group, a property-casualty insurance company based in Lititz, Pa., selected iPartners’ Insurance Scorecard business intelligence solution.

The customized interface will offer the agency analytics, including performance management dashboards, detailed ...  Read →  Read Story

House votes to repeal health reform law; replacement bill likely

The U.S. House of Representatives, led by Republicans since the midterm elections last November, voted to repeal the $1.2 trillion health reform law passed by congressional Democrats last year.  Read Story

As the debate over a Republican effort to repeal the health care reform law kicked into high gear on Jan. 18, 2011, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., argued ...  Read →  Read Story

Six more states join multi-state challenge to health reform law

Six more states have joined the multi-state challenge, asking a federal judge in Florida to deem the health reform law passed last year unconstitutional.  Read Story

Governors, HHS say repealing health reform would be ‘terrible mistake’

A repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would restrict access to affordable health insurance, “burden” small businesses with skyrocketing health care costs and “explode” national and state deficits, government officials say.  Read Story

Financial Solutions Group is moving Feb. 1, back to Mount Airy, Md., where it had an office for four years, ending in 2004.  Read Story

Pa. agent loses license, to pay $100,000 for borrowing money

A Gladwyne, Pa., agent had her insurance license revoked and was ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution for borrowing money wrongly from clients of her business in West Conshohocken, Pa.  Read Story

Virginia approves workers’ compensation loss cost reductions

Virginia regulators approved decreases to a handful of workers’ compensation voluntary loss costs, including those for industrial, surface coal mine and underground coal mine classifications.  Read Story