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Lawmaker Eyes Provider Rate Data
By Allison BellSen. John Rockefeller IV is looking more closely at how health plans pay for out-of-network care.
April 06, 2009
Life Activity FallsU.S. life insurers received 3.2% fewer requests for individual coverage in March than they received in March 2008 - but 7.7% more for applicants ages 60 and older.
April 06, 2009
Carrier Holds Benefits Costs SteadyPrincipal Financial Group Inc. will be eliminating rate increases for small groups for several types of benefits this year, the company says.
April 06, 2009
Insurer Courts Special Needs MarketTransamerica Insurance & Investment Group has set up a TransAbility Special Needs Trusts Strategy Center.
April 06, 2009
Dychtwald: Boomers Need HelpThe retirement industry needs a wake-up call where Baby Boomers are concerned, Maddy Dychtwald contended at a conference here.
April 06, 2009
Treasury Extends Fund DeadlineInsurers that want to team with the federal government to buy illiquid securities from other financial institutions have two more weeks to sign up for the program.
April 06, 2009
"Don't Waste This Crisis""My advice to you is this: Don't waste this crisis," said Joseph Jordan. "Never before in our lifetimes have so many with so much money been so mad with their current investment advisor.
April 06, 2009
NAIC Posts Risk Call AgendaMembers of the Invested Asset Working Group will meet over the telephone April 7 to discuss options for improving regulation of liquidity and event risk.