A Maryland state senator is taking insurance companies to task for their opposition to a bill raising the dependent age of adult children, saying companies need to get more actively involved in decreasing the number of uninsured state residents.

A former employee at Aliquippa Community Hospital in Beaver County, Pa., must pay nearly $112,000 in restitution after she told her employer her boyfriend was actually her husband to secure the man health insurance.

A Rochester, N.Y., man was recently arrested for listing his live-in girlfriend as his wife so she could obtain health insurance benefits.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is reminding insurance companies and state residents that a new law increasing the age limit for a dependent covered under a parent’s health plan took effect Dec. 7.

An Upstate New York man could face seven years in prison if convicted of lying to his employer – a health insurance company – about the relationship with a woman and her child.