State Regulation
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Insurers Eye Medicare Drug Profits
By Steve TuckeyThe new Medicare drug benefit will generate lower profits than previously predicted in several key states, an analyst says.[@@]Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Patrick ...
August 16, 2005
New Hampshire Law Clarifies Ad Disclosure RulesNew Hampshire Gov John Lynch has signed Senate Bill 111, a bill that will simplify disclosure requirements for financial advisors who advertise via television ...
August 12, 2005
Spitzer Calls For End To Antitrust EemptionThe McCarran-Ferguson Act, which has kept insurance regulation in the hands of the states since its passage in 1944, should be repealed, according to ...
August 12, 2005
EBSA Allows State MEWA TaesFederal law lets states tax multiple employer welfare arrangements. [@@]An official at the U.S. Department of Labor writes in an advisory letter to the ...
August 12, 2005
Hall To Oversee Troubled Empire State InsurersJody Hall is now a special deputy superintendent at the New York Liquidation Bureau.[@@]Hall, who also will be the bureau's chief executive officer, will ...
August 03, 2005
Spitzer Calls For End To Antitrust EemptionThe McCarran-Ferguson Act, which has kept insurance regulation in the hands of states since its enactment in 1945, should be repealed, according to New ...
July 28, 2005
USI Closes On Bay State Benefits FirmUSI Holdings Corp. has acquired HRB Benefits Group, a firm that has been selling employee benefits to midsize Boston-area employers for 20 years.[@@]USI, Briarcliff ...
June 29, 2005
Stolte Addresses NCOIL As ACLI Board Offers SOX AlternativeAs a leading insurance regulator detailed reasons why changes to insurance accounting regulation should be put in place, the American Council of Life Insurers, ...