Allied Insurance Brokers, N.J. insurer partner on real estate program

Allied Insurance Brokers is going to offer a real estate program in the mid-Atlantic states through a partnership with American Alternative Insurance Corp.  Read Story

AIA opposes Md. ‘set-aside’ condition of workers’ comp. settlement

The American Insurance Association (AIA) opposes a regulation requiring the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) to approve a set-aside arrangement as a condition for approval of a workers’ compensation settlement under Maryland law.  Read Story

Insurance agents: Base Md. health exchange on existing private system

About 100 Maryland health insurance agents and brokers lobbied members of the Maryland General Assembly today (Feb. 8) for a continued role for the private sector – and them – when the state's health insurance exchange starts in 2014.  Read Story

New Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent C. Gray named Bill White as his insurance commissioner, replacing Gennet Purcell.  Read Story

Pa. lawyers file class action against Texas life settlement firm

A class-action suit has been filed by purchasers of securities from Life Partners Holdings (LPH), alleging that the Waco, Texas-based company and some of its officers and directors violated securities laws.  Read Story

N.C. regulators to review dwelling fire and extended rate filing

The North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) will review the dwelling fire and extended rate filing. The public comment period on the filing ended ended Jan. 31.  Read Story

Agents say their state’s insurance regulation is ‘excessive’

The level of insurance regulation in the state where insurance agents and brokers do business is greater than necessary, a majority of respondents reported in the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.  Read Story

If you've ever been in a management position, there's a good chance you had several pet peeves regarding your staff members and their behavior. What you may not realize is that your employees probably have a few complaints themselves.  Read Story

The argument that everyone must have health insurance so that we who are insured don’t end up paying the medical bills for those who aren’t insured has been repeated by so many people so many times that it has become an irrefutable truth. That is why Obamacare’s linchpin provision requires all of us to have health insurance by 2014.  Read Story

NJAHU’s annual State of State in Healthcare symposium set for March 3

Judith L. Roman, president and CEO of AmeriHealth New Jersey. is among five panelists scheduled to take part in the third annual New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters’ State of the State in Healthcare Symposium.  Read Story