Three bills introduced in the Maryland General Assembly, if passed, would be the first major steps toward implementing federal health reform in the state.

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Corbett nominated a partner in the Saul Ewing law firm and former lawyer in the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to become the state’s next insurance commissioner.

About 2.6 million people in Virginia private insurance market will be eligible for the state’s health insurance exchanges, according to a new state report, which called the current insurance state insurance market “unsustainable.”

Maryland’s federally mandated health insurance exchange should be a public, government-run agency with a board tasked with overseeing its operations, according to a state task force.

More than 50% of health insurance agents and brokers spend at least half their time providing services to clients that are outside of the sales process, according to a new survey.

Health insurance agents and brokers in Maryland have formed a coalition whose objective is to ensure their jobs are maintained as the state implements health reform.

Joel Ario, former insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, has compared the federal health reform law that President Barack Obama signed in March to Republican Mitt Romney’s plan in Massachusetts.

The North and Central chapters of the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters will hold a Nov. 16 meeting to learn from Ernie Sweat, an expert on the Utah health exchange.

About 30.6 million Americans will obtain their health insurance through exchanges by 2019, according to a new government estimate.