Baltimore County’s Health Care Review Committee agreed to extend health care benefits to same-sex couples legally married in other states, starting Jan. 1, 2012.

The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering its medical benefits to transgendered employees and dependents.

A former Pennsylvania superior court judge was stripped of state-funded pension and state-funded health insurance after defrauding two insurance companies of more than $400,000, the Erie Times News reported.

State Farm Insurance Cos. will begin to offer health insurance and other benefits to its employees’ legally recognized same-sex partners, starting June 1.

Plattsburgh, N.Y., Councilor James Calnon said a group of city firefighters are needlessly costing taxpayers by not adopting a new self-funded health insurance plan.

About one-third of chief financial officers and senior comptrollers in the U.S. plan to cut health care benefits at their companies, according to a new Grant Thornton survey.

About 351,000 members of a New York teachers union are among nearly 1 million people for whom the new health reform law’s elimination on the cap on insurance costs will not apply.

A new survey of employers shows that 46% plan to enhance their preventative care benefits in response to health care reform regulations of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

More than half of large employers plan to offer consumer-directed health plans next year, many as a means of lowering their health benefit costs.

Large-employer health plans are getting recast in the wake of federal health reform and in the midst of an average anticipated cost increase of 8.9%, according to new research.