Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Rating Agency: Student Health Proposal to be Hard on Plans
By Allison BellProposed student health plan Affordable Care Act compliance regulations could reduce use of the plans but probably will not hurt the credit quality of the big health insurers.
February 11, 2011
Personnel Changes: Symetra, The Marketing Alliance, Evolution, Health Plan OneSymetra Life Insurance Company has hired John Richter to be vice president of national accounts.
February 11, 2011
PPACA: Federal PCIP Risk Pool Enrollment Reaches 12,437The federal Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan program -- a program that has the capacity to cover about 200,000 uninsured people with serious health problems -- had 12,437 enrollees Feb. 1, officials say.
February 11, 2011
New York Life to Continue to Pay LTC DividendsNew York Life Insurance Company says its LTCSelect Premier long term care insurance policy will pay a dividend to policyholders this year.
February 11, 2011
New York Life To Pay LTCI Dividend For 7th Consecutive YearNew York Life announced on Feb. 11 that its LTCSelect Premier long-term care insurance product will pay a dividend to policyholders this year, at a time when many carriers are exiting the LTCI business.
February 11, 2011
Record turnout for Inter-Company Marketing Group meetingDerek Brigham, CPCU, American Family Insurance, is awarded the Don Kampe Lifetime Achievement Award by Doug Kampe, son of the late Don Kampe, at the Inter-Company Marketing Group (ICMG) 2011 annual meeting.The event, now in its 27th year, saw a record number of attendees. Click the headline for more.
February 11, 2011
Jobs: Hiring is Back in StyleThe percentage of life insurers that say they expect to increase the size of their staffs increased to 53% in January, from 50% in July 2010, and the percentage that expect to downsize has fallen to 5%, from 13%.
February 11, 2011
Earnings: MetLife, Prudential, Principal, Torchmark, Phoenix, Allstate, Protective, Primerica, Humana, Coventry, Centene, Triple-S, NFP, BrownLife and health earnings reports continued to pour out onto the wires this week.