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NAIC Actuarial Panels Work on Annuity, Life and Disability Tables
By Staff WriterThe Life Actuarial Task Force and the Health Actuarial Task Force are forging ahead with several actuarial table updates.
March 28, 2011
MetLife: Workers Are SeethingThe workers that employers have left may be more productive, but they are also angrier.
March 28, 2011
HHS Releases Health IT Strategy DraftFederal health information technology planners would like to see "private payers" - health insurers - help encourage doctors and hospitals to make more use of electronic health record systems.
March 28, 2011
MetLife: Workers Are SeethingThe workers that employers have left may be more productive, but they are also angrier.
March 28, 2011
Physician Quality Ruling Favors Blue Shield of CaliforniaA state court judge in Alameda County, Calif., has dismissed efforts by physicians and a state medical society to kill a Blue Shield of California physician quality recognition program.
March 28, 2011
NAIC Delays MLR ActionState insurance regulators will be waiting at least 4 more weeks to act on a resolution calling for agent and broker commissions to be excluded from medical loss ratio calculations.
March 28, 2011
North Carolina Finds Precertification, Claim Processing DelaysThe North Carolina Department of Insurance has imposed $600,000 in fines on a health insurer in connection with recordkeeping and processing problems detected during a routine market conduct examination.
March 28, 2011
Consumer Information Team Tackles New ProjectsThe Consumer Information Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has created two new small groups to tackle consumer communication challenges.