UnitedHealthcare has agreed to provide its members with immediate coverage of behavioral therapy for autism in California.

Health insurer Aetna rejected California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ request not to increase premiums for its small-group PPO product.

California insurance regulators are introducing, to the dismay of the insurance industry, controversial legislation to limit self-insurance for small businesses that they say undermines the federal health care reform.

MetLife, because of its ownership of MetLife Bank, an online retail unit, was forced to submit to the Federal Reserve’s stress testing and failed, possibly because it was “unfairly penalized” by regulators.

California’s insurance commissioner reached settlement agreements with two health insurers to guarantee coverage of behavioral therapy for autism.

California’s insurance regulators are challenging two insurance companies for using “large deductible agreements” on workers’ compensation cases without their approval.

California’s insurance commissioner announced the end to a pair of civil suits, filed over his agency’s efforts to force insurance companies to stop investing in corporations working in Iran.

More than 100 felony charges have been filed against suspects allegedly involved in an elaborate, organized fraud ring operating in the San Francisco area that allegedly cost 11 insurance companies up to $500,000 in losses.

California officials predict that Standard & Poor’s (S&P) recent downgrade on the credit rating of U.S. government securities will not affect life insurers’ dealings with their consumers in the state.

Anthem Blue Cross in California has agreed to cut its quarterly premium in half, dropping it to 3% on average for some products in its small-group market.