Archive for May, 2011
April showers appear to have brought an increase in individually underwritten life insurance applications, according to a monthly analysis. Read Story
Florida lawmakers passed a sweeping Medicaid reform package that places most recipients into managed care in a closely watched debate over how to curb costs and provide ... Read → Read Story
A superior court ruled constitutional a Rhode Island insurance statute concerning extinguishing liabilities for past and future claims that had not been challenged. Read Story
Sixteen months after appointing Beth Sammis as acting Maryland insurance commissioner, Gov. Martin O'Malley has to make another appointment to the position. Read Story
Capitol Financial Solutions (CFS) Brokerage Services department was endorsed by the Professional Insurance Agents Association (PIA) of NC to offer members its product line. Read Story
An insurance trade group says the U.S. House is “moving in the right direction” toward affirming state-based insurance regulation by voting to defund health insurance exchanges. Read Story
United Prosperity Life Insurance Co. has signed an definitive agreement to buy Shenandoah Life Insurance Co., a Roanoke, Va.-based insurer that has been in receivership over financial concerns since February 2009. Read Story
The Maryland Workplace Health & Wellness Symposium will be held June 3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the BWI Marriott in Baltimore, Md. Read Story
The “most cost-effective way” for employers to rein in soaring health care costs is to self-insure, according to a research organization focused on using business technology and management principles to control health care costs. Read Story
Nearly three-fourths of American workers lack plans to cover their health care costs in retirement, and most workers lack any clarity about what those costs could be to them when they retire, a new survey finds. Read Story


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