The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) should make itself more transparent to consumers, and also should give brokers better access to information, said consulting firm officials in a public hearing June 23.

WellPoint, the nation’s largest health insurer by medical membership, plans to unilaterally implement key provisions of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act introduced in Congress.

A series of proposed new regulations in Massachusetts, calling for greater consumer protections in the auto insurance marketplace, are both ‘unnecessary and ill-advised,” according to an industry group.

Like other health insurance companies nationwide, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is citing increasing medical costs as the primary driver for its need to raise rates on some of its plans.

MetLife has agreed to a settlement with the federal government regarding allegations it paid millions of dollars in improper contingent commissions to a San Diego-based insurance brokerage.

New York insurance regulators have updated a few of the provisions of their proposed broker compensation regulations, according to a state trade association, which says the changes will ease the …  Read →