Former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler, who left the Maryland Insurance Administration in January 2010, now has left his position as chief counsel of the U.S Food and Drug Administration.

William L. Jews, a former CEO of CareFirst, can now claim all $18 million of his severance, five years after he left his position leading Maryland’s largest health insurer and three years after the payment was challenged by state officials.

William L. Jews, former CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has been hired as an advisor to a Glenwood, Md.-based software development firm seeking to play in the health care information technology arena.

As CEO, Bills Jews took a struggling CareFirst BlueCr0ss BlueShield of Maryland and in 13 years turned it around into an efficient — and the state’s largest – health insurance company.

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Claiming his client “earned every penny of his compensation and retirement payments,” the attorney for former CareFirst CEO William Jews is applauding a Baltimore County judge’s decision to award the former executive his full $18 million severance package.

A Maryland Circuit Court is expected to rule soon on whether the state’s insurance department was justified in reducing the severance package of former CareFirst CEO William Jews.

A group representing the nation’s health insurance companies is calling an investigation by the U.S. House into the finances of 52 insurers a “politically motivated, taxpayer financed fishing expedition.”

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The Pennsylvania insurance commissioner has deemed the compensation of the chief executives of Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross “reasonable” under state law.

The examination and finding is part of the …  Read →