A federal court threw out one of the key appeals of the federal health reform law, reversing a lower court’s ruling that held the law unconstitutional.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is hoping the state’s General Assembly will join him in prohibiting the state’s health insurance exchanges from covering abortions.

An insurance agents’ group in Virginia is asking its members to press the Virginia Senate’s General Laws Committee to vote against an increase in the surety bond rates for state projects that it says “doesn’t make sense.”

About 2.6 million people in Virginia private insurance market will be eligible for the state’s health insurance exchanges, according to a new state report, which called the current insurance state insurance market “unsustainable.”

Teresa Lewis is scheduled for a Sept. 23 execution for hiring to men to kill her husband and stepson eight years ago so she could collect on the younger man’s life insurance policy and her husband’s estate.

Noting its “great strides” in fighting insurance fraud, state agencies across Virginia will continue that teamwork this week, dubbed “Insurance Fraud Awareness Week.”

Like the majority of Republican governors across the nation, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has turned down a federal offer to aid in the creation of a high-risk pool program for the uninsured.

Selling insurance products across state lines, seen by many as an efficient way to improve health care across the nation, hit a roadblock in Virginia this legislative session as four bills approving such a measure failed to gain approval.

Health insurers, health care subscription plans and health maintenance organizations operating in Virginia will be required to cover the cost of telemedicine services starting next year under a new mandate signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Virginia has joined Idaho as the second state in the nation to pass a law rejecting the federal government from requiring individuals to secure private health insurance.