Mercury Insurance, a multi-line insurance organization operating in 13 states, is offering a new commercial auto insurance product it says uses technology to enable its independent agents to more easily rate, qualify and issue new business.

Federal health reform rules for health insurance rate reviews, which took effect today (Sept. 1), may not be “strict” enough to protect consumers against insurers’ rate hikes, consumer advocacy groups say.

A New York-based national provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services acquired an Arizona-based property-casualty brokerage.

Employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) eroded “significantly” in the last decade, although federal health reform is expected to reverse the decline for small employers, two studies say.

A federal appeals court in Atlanta, where 26 states will argue against the U.S. Government, is the next stop in the ongoing legal battle over federal health reform.

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.

Almost all states “held steady” or made targeted improvements in their eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010 despite the recession, a new survey shows.

Companion Life Insurance Co. purchased Total Dental Administrators (TDA) and its affiliates and subsidiaries, expanding on an existing relationship among the companies.

The recent judicial trend seems to be that the signature legislation of President Obama and congressional Democrats is that their effort to seize one-fifth of the U.S. economy from the private sector and empower the federal government to dictate that Americans purchase health insurance violates what our nation’s founders deemed, “The Supreme Law of the Land.”

The U.S. House of Representatives will begin debate Jan. 18 on an effort by Republican representatives to repeal the health reform law approved by a Democratic majority last year.