The Maryland Workplace Health & Wellness Symposium will be held June 3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the BWI Marriott in Baltimore, Md.

The “most cost-effective way” for employers to rein in soaring health care costs is to self-insure, according to a research organization focused on using business technology and management principles to control health care costs.

Long-term care insurance agencies in Columbia, Md., and Rockaway, N.J., were among five recently recognized for showing the greatest growth in sales last year.

The U.S. House voted 238-183 to strip the funding included in last year’s federal health reform law for states to establish health insurance exchanges.

The Maryland Health Care Commission today (May 3) launched a new web portal to help small business owners choose a group health plan for their employees.

California’s state controller says a multi-state settlement with John Hancock over its handling of state unclaimed property laws with its life insurance and annuity policies “will not be the last” for life insurers.

All Risks partnered with Canal Insurance Co. to expand its trucking coverage to Virginia and Delaware, effective April 15.

Digital Insurance completed its eighth acquisition in the past eight months, part of its “aggressive” expansion mode in employee benefits in the small- and medium-sized business market.

First Rehab Life’s holding company, Rehab Services Corp., has a deal with Eos Partners, a New York City-based private investment partnership, that will enable the company to “significantly accelerate its business expansion activities,” according to a statement.

BB&T Corp., a bank holding company with insurance operations, reported $250 million in insurance income in the first quarter of the year.