A Washington, D.C.-based insurance company is partnering with Gerber Life Insurance Co. to offer group medical stop-loss insurance in New York.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners plans to hold a public hearing May 20 in Washington, D.C., to explore the emergence of stranger originated or stranger owned annuities.

CareFirst has undergone a reorganization designed to allow the insurer’s clients to receive service from “end to end” from people dedicated to specific delivery channels of the overall business.

America’s middle class suffered big losses in health insurance coverage between 2000 and 2008, with coverage to 3 million people in the group disappearing, a new report indicates.

Health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama could lead to the demise of small-group insurance market in the U.S., according to the chief executive of one of the nation’s Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates.

State Auto Insurance Co., a super-regional property-casualty insurer, is expanding its East Coast presence by opening a new regional headquarters in the Baltimore area and focusing more heavily on the Virginia market.

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.

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.

A Dallas-based general agency has “established ourselves as a dominant player” in North Jersey with its acquisition of NAS Financial Services, a general agency based in Morristown, N.J., according to its president and CEO.

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.