Healthy Howard, the program helping uninsured residents gain access to health care, has received a vote of confidence to continue for another year amid funding issues.

The Congressional Budget Office has revised its estimate for the cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, indicating that it will require at least $115 billion more over the next decade than first thought.

Jay Hancock of the Baltimore Sun is the featured speaker at the annual breakfast meeting of the Society of Financial Service Professionals – Baltimore Chapter, scheduled for June 2.

Insurance agents and financial service professionals many find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs of business owners looking to save their businesses, a lawyer in Massachusetts is warning.

Two insurance bills, including one to allow captive insurers companies to operate in New Jersey, are expected to move through the state’s General Assembly.

Hawaii’s legislators, who ended their annual session April 30, looked to the insurance industry to help recover from its budget deficit, an approach one trade association says will mean increased costs for that state’s businesses and consumers.

Beginning Jan. 1, Maryland residents will be paying more for auto insurance under a new measure signed into law by Gov. Martin O’Malley.

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.

Two New Jersey insurance agencies have joined forces to create a “master agency” to offer agents a new way to do business.

Workers earning less money were twice as likely last year to have their defined-benefit plans frozen than workers in the top income brackets, a new government report indicates.