Aetna’s chairman and CEO, Ronald A. Williams will retire from the national health insurer in April 2011.

CVS Caremark has been awarded a 12-year contract to provide pharmacy benefits to the 9.7 million lives covered by Aetna.

Increasingly cast as the villain in the nation’s rising cost for health care, five of the nation’s largest health care insurers met with the Obama Administration to argue that they are bit players in a much larger production.

Citing the economy’s impact on its customers, one of the nation’s largest health insurers is eliminating about 1,200 jobs between now and March 2010.

A collection of the top health insurance executives will discuss an insider’s perspective on health care reform during the Greater Philadelphia Association of Health Underwriters’ annual conference, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2, in Drexel Hill, Pa.

A group representing the nation’s health insurance companies is calling an investigation by the U.S. House into the finances of 52 insurers a “politically motivated, taxpayer financed fishing expedition.”

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The Pennsylvania insurance commissioner has deemed the compensation of the chief executives of Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross “reasonable” under state law.

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National health insurer Aetna disappointed its shareholders again with its second quarter numbers, showing a 28% decrease in operating earnings and “significantly higher” commercial medical costs.

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An investors’ case against Aetna Inc. for allegedly making false statements about the company’s “disciplined pricing strategies” to drive up its stock price several years ago has been thrown out …  Read →