Mid-Atlantic
A group of 36 people was accused of an alleged scheme to defraud New York insurers of more than $279 million in the largest alleged single no-fault automobile insurance fraud charge ever.
N.Y. insurer, N.J. processing agent probed over Calif. fire claims
California insurance regulators initiated administrative action against New Hampshire Insurance Co. and its claims processing agent over their handling of claims after a 2008 fire in Sylmar, Calif.
Nearly half of the people who bought individual critical illness insurance policies last year were younger than age 45, according to a new report.
Commercial insurance rates up 2%, shows market ‘turning slowly’
The composite commercial insurance rate index rose 2% in February, according to MarketScout, which does a monthly analysis of various lines.
California’s insurance commissioner reached settlement agreements with two health insurers to guarantee coverage of behavioral therapy for autism.
The U.S. Senate managed to slimly uphold President Barack Obama‘s controversial birth control policy, voting 51-48 to halt a Republican push to free employers and insurers companies from having to provide coverage for contraceptives, despite their religious or moral objections.
The president of a Richmond, Va.-based insurance company said he was “disappointed” with the lowering of the ratings for Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia.
The New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters (NJAHU) is hosting the 2012 State of the State: the New Landscape of Health Care in New Jersey March 7 at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital courtyard in New Brunswick, N.J.
Md. TPA offers its national Healthy Solution for employee health costs
A health insurance administrator, based in Maryland, is offering a new approach toward health and wellness, hoping it will bend the curve on health costs for its clients.
The sickest people using the U.S. health care system, as health reform continues to take hold, will have their treatment and utilization paid by those who are healthy, a new report affirms.

Lautenberg, Rubio want to cap TRICARE fees for military retirees
Health care cost at all-time high, despite lower rate of increase
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year

Life insurers sell shares in British tech firm to Pa. company
FINRA estimate for IA SROs excludes monetary, administrative details
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year

Pa. broker adds $181,000 commission to $2.1M false insurance invoice
A.M. Best rates Pa.-based insurer’s outlook ‘negative’
With five-year plan stuck, House passes new short-term NFIP extension


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