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Health Plans Can Share In Settlement
By Staff WriterInsurers may be able to get more than $29 million from a fund that could be created to settle a prescription marketing class-action lawsuit.
October 23, 2009
EBSA: New Form 5500 Rules Apply To Health PlansThe Employee Benefits Security Administration has published a new batch of advice aimed at insurers, benefit plan administrators and other organizations that are trying to comply with new reporting requirements.
October 23, 2009
Administration Takes On Insurance GiantThe White House has accused WellPoint Inc. of "cherry picking certain policies and ignoring major aspects of reform" in a collection of analyses of how health reform might affect some of the states it serves.
October 23, 2009
Health Plans Can Share In SettlementInsurers may be able to get more than $29 million from a fund that could be created to settle a prescription marketing class-action lawsuit.
October 23, 2009
Administration Takes On Insurance GiantThe White House has accused WellPoint Inc. of "cherry picking certain policies and ignoring major aspects of reform" in a collection of analyses of how health reform might affect some of the states it serves.
October 22, 2009
Out-Of-State Plans Told: Don't Give Your NumberIf an insurer that is not authorized to do business in New York sells a group plan that happens to cover New York residents, it can communicate with those insureds only through mail and electronic mail.
October 22, 2009
ACLI Chairman-Elect Gets New Role At NationwideNationwide Mutual Insurance Company has named Mark Thresher chief financial officer.
October 22, 2009
Antitrust Bill Amendment Protects Loss StudiesRep. Dan Lungren has won a change to H.R. 3596, the House Judiciary Committee health antitrust exemption bill, that could reduce the bill's practical effects.