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NAIC Recruiting Consumer Liaisons for 2010: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is accepting applications for its 2010 Consumer Liaison Program. The 17-year-old program provides ...
Date: 11/13/2009    Source: BestWire
Connecticut A.G. Investigating Anthem Blue Cross Data Breach: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is facing a data breach investigation by Connecticut's attorney general, who alleges the health insurer waited two months to ...
Date: 11/10/2009    Source: BestWire
U.S. Senator Criticizes Health Insurers' Medical Loss Ratios: The U.S. health insurance industry, and one company in particular, Cigna Corp., are coming under fire again. This time the scrutiny is on companies' medical ...
Date: 11/3/2009    Source: BestWire
New York Names Creators of Independent Database for Out-of-Network Payments: FAIR Health Inc. and a research consortium at Syracuse University will develop an independent database to determine reimbursement rates for out-of-network ...
Date: 10/28/2009    Source: BestWire
House Committee Passes Consumer Agency Bill; Insurers Wouldn't Be Under Its Authority: The House Financial Services Committee -- after several days of debating amendments -- approved the bill that would establish a new Consumer Financial ...
Date: 10/22/2009    Source: BestWire
Under Proposed Reforms, Little Rate Regulation, New Customers May Mean Health for Insurers: With virtually no limits on what they could charge in premiums, coupled with millions of new customers to gain, the U.S. health insurance industry's financial ...
Date: 10/19/2009    Source: BestWire
Frank Wants Retirement Products to Get a Pass From New Consumer Agency: Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House committee that's trying to steer the establishment of a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency, has proposed a ...
Date: 10/6/2009    Source: BestWire
Pa. Regulators Seek Liquidation of Long-Term Care Insurer Penn Treaty and Subsidiary: Pennsylvania insurance regulators have filed petitions with a state court seeking to liquidate long-term care insurers Penn Treaty Network America Insurance ...
Date: 10/5/2009    Source: BestWire
Minnesota Sues Companies for Selling Unregulated Health, Long-Term Care Coverage: Minnesota's attorney general is suing two out-of-state companies for selling unregulated, noninsurance health and long-term care coverage with limited ...
Date: 10/2/2009    Source: BestWire
Consumer Representatives to Senate: Don't Give NAIC Health Authority: A group of National Association of Insurance Commissioners-delegated consumer representatives are opposing a designated federal role for the organization in ...
Date: 9/30/2009    Source: BestWire
New Consumer Protection Agency Proposal Eases Oversight: Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House's Financial Services Committee who originally introduced the bill to establish a Consumer Financial Protection ...
Date: 9/25/2009    Source: BestWire
Perspectives: With Congress' Focus on Health Reform, Overhauling Regulation May Be a Tall Order: Congress wasn't designed for efficiency. It's supposed to be hard to make laws. Add to that Congress' tendency toward a one-track mind, and it becomes easy to ...
Date: 9/21/2009    Source: BestWire
Iowa Conducts Hearings, Study on Ethics, Fairness of Credit-Based Scoring: Iowa regulators are holding the last in a series of public hearings on the use of credit-based insurance scoring in underwriting, specifically the ethics and ...
Date: 9/16/2009    Source: BestWire
As AIG's Brand Fades in Asia, Local Insurers Get Their Chance: The financial storm created by American International Group Inc. [18540] has brought subtle changes to the insurance industry across the Asia-Pacific region, ...
Date: 9/15/2009    Source: BestWire
Consumer Group Accuses Wellpoint and UnitedHealth Group of 'Illegal Coercion': Nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, Consumer Watchdog, has written California Attorney General Jerry Brown to request an investigation into certain ...
Date: 9/8/2009    Source: BestWire
Billboard Blasting Mercury Insurance Is Removed: California-based Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, said Mercury Insurance has threatened to sue the owners of a billboard the ...
Date: 9/4/2009    Source: BestWire
Nippon Life of America COO: Interplay of Cost, Access, Quality Absent in Health Debate: In the debate about how to reform the U.S. health care system, there's no real discussion about how cost, access and quality interact with one another, says ...
Date: 8/17/2009    Source: BestWire
Frank Introduces Bill to Establish Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Rep. Barney Frank has introduced a bill that closely matches the Obama Administration's proposals for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which would ...
Date: 7/9/2009    Source: BestWire
Conn. AG Urges Commissioner to Reject Anthem Blues' Rate Increase Request: The Connecticut attorney general is urging state Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan to reject Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's request to increase ...
Date: 7/8/2009    Source: BestWire
Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Has Limited Mention of Insurance: The Obama Administration has revealed its version of a bill that would form a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, though its approach includes only limited ...
Date: 6/30/2009    Source: BestWire
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