An effort to regulate California’s health insurance premiums like auto coverage faces a key challenge today in the state Assembly. A bill authored by Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, would require state regulators to approve increases in premiums,…
The federal government is set to embark on a taxpayer-funded mail-out spruiking one of its private health insurance initiatives.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, outlined support for a major expansion of a children’s health care insurance program on Wednesday, saying it could reduce the number of people who lack coverage.
What: The CEA is a privately funded government agency and the world’s largest provider of residential earthquake insurance. It sells insurance through participating insurers. Some private insurers now also offer residential earthquake policies that are similar to the CEA’s.
A survey of insurance brokers and agents released Wednesday said that the costs of medical insurance for most companies has climbed since last fall. The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ survey said that more than half of small companies and nearly half of midsize companies in the Midwest saw double-digit percentage increases in health insurance premiums. Local employee benefits brokers …
