NCIA Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, will stop writing new policies April 1, as it terminates its “exclusive life carrier” partnership with Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Co., now Dearborn National.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is urging Democrats in Washington, D.C., to reconsider the use of the “deem and pass” rule to approve health care reform and is threatening a state suit against any such comprehensive bill.

In a move it says “dramatically accelerates its national growth,” Marsh & McClennan Agency has acquired Roanoke, Va.-based Thomas Rutherfoord Inc., one of the nation’s largest independently owned firms.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance has announced that insurance companies and producers can now print licenses online.

Two property-casualty insurers, who recently stopped writing business in Virginia, had their certificates to operate in Arkansas suspended by regulators, citing their negative surplus balance.

Virginia lawmakers went into overtime this weekend to pass a two-year, $70 billion budget that includes $360 million in cuts to health and human services programs in the state.

Designed as a one-stop online source to support agents’ full training and development needs, Ohio Casualty has introduced its new Agent Learning Center for appointed agencies.

Kinsale Capital Group, a Bermudan holding company for insurance operations, has announced the formation of a new U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance company based in Richmond, Va.

While 34 other states have considered or partially passed legislation to ban any federal mandate to secure health insurance coverage, the Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill that is expected to get the signature of the state’s governor.

Reacting to a consumer complaint about unusually high health insurance premiums, the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) rescinded its approval of a rate increase proposed by CareFirst after discovering a filing error by the regional insurer.