health insurers

• What's Next for MLR?

  By Laura Mazzuca Toops  |  April 25, 2012

  The medical loss ratio question is far from settled, as SCOTUS weighs the healthcare law’s constitutionality, and Congress debates two MLR reform bills.

• McCarty to HHS: Florida Already Damaged by Agent Commissions in MLR

  By Elizabeth Festa, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 3, 2012

  The state of Florida continues to carry the banner of agents on the medical loss ratio issue, asking federal health regulators to review its decision not to exempt Florida from the rule.

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  Can Group Health Business Ruin Your M&A Prospects?

  By Dave Lenckus  |  November 16, 2011

  Some say agency health business can decrease valuation by as much as 90 percent--while other buyers actively seek out this specialty.

• Experts Weigh Direct, Indirect Impact Of S&P’s U.S. Downgrade

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com, Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 11, 2011

  Insurers and reinsurers will not likely see a direct impact from Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of U.S. long-term sovereign debt, experts say, but the underlying economic conditions that led to the downgrade could cause some of the same issues experienced in 2008 to re-emerge.

• NAIC, HHS can still do right by agents

  By Ted Besesparis  |  March 1, 2011

  Ted Besesparis discusses NAIC failure to support HHS that agent compensation be removed from healthcare medical loss ratio and how its not too late for NAIC to stand up for agents.

• Healthcare reform: Moving target

  By Dave Lenckus  |  March 1, 2011

  In the year since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as uncertainty has mounted over how the health insurance reform law will work and whether it eventually will even be the law of the land, producers are concluding they can only keep up, team up...

• Obama, NAIC Launch Health Reform Partnership

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  September 27, 2010

  Emphasizing that state insurance commissioners will play a critical role in implementing federal health care reforms, President Barack Obama met a large contingent of regulators at the White House as part of their new partnership last week.

• Alterra Capital Merges Its Bermuda Holdings

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 7, 2010

  Alterra Capital Holdings Limited announced the consolidation of its Bermuda operating subsidiaries, Alterra Insurance Limited (Alterra Insurance) and Harbor Point Re Limited (Harbor Point Re).

• Protesters Hit, Obama Skips, NAIC Meeting!

  By Staff Writer  |  August 25, 2010

  In the spirit of risk management, the Washington Community Action Network made quite a scene giving out “lobbyist pandemic kits” during last week's meeting of the ...

• Connecture Acquires Insurint

  By Staff Writer  |  April 20, 2010

  Connecture, Inc., has acquired Insurint to create one of the largest end-to-end sales automation providers in the health insurance market.