As health care costs continue to climb, many midsize employers are turning to self-funding as a cost-effective way to provide health benefits to their employees. Fifty-eight percent of employers with 200 to 999 employees self-funded their health care programs in 2010, up from 44% in 1999, according to the ...
The Manhattan United States Attorney and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have charged three insurance agents with a $100 million fraud scheme involving stranger-owned life insurance or STOLI. Typically, people buying a life insurance policy have some relationship to the person being insured. In contrast, with STOLI arrangements, a ...
The Consumer Federation of America is attacking home insurers for holding too much capital and avoiding business in risk-prone regions, charging that property-casualty companies have "hollowed out" catastrophe coverage. In response, the head of the major industry trade group charged that CFA is dead wrong and is ignorant of ...
In the heated debate over to what extent religiously affiliated employers should be required to provide free contraception for workers, no one has talked much about what methods are available to women who want to prevent pregnancy and how their choices might change if cost were removed from the equation. ...
BOISE, Idaho — Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama’s health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance companies to ignore new federal rules requiring them to cover contraception. Measures ...
The insurance industry is concerned it will take a hit from the Obama administration’s mandate that they provide birth control in health plans for employees of religious organizations that object to the coverage. Publicly, the health insurance industry has avoided getting involved in the fight. But in private, ...
EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) -- The history of western U.S. wildfires suggests current conditions and fire-managements practices could mean a dangerous future for the region, a study says. Researchers from the University of Oregon and other institutions said the American West has seen a recent increase in large wildfires due ...
Studies of climate change and its impact on coastal communities usually focus on rising sea level. Now, scientists from MIT and Princeton University have developed a method to examine how multiple effects of climate change – including the combination of sea-level rise and stronger hurricanes -- will affect storm surges ...
President Obama's efforts last week have failed to quell the fury over his decision to require most health plans to cover contraception. Republicans are still promising a fight in Congress, and two leading Catholic groups remain on the fence although the administration thought they had been won over. In ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—President Barack Obama on Monday proposed more aggressive deficit reductions through savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs than the White House put forward just five months ago. The president's budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 seeks a total of $364 billion in health care ...
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