• Will my Health Insurance pay for Breast Implants?

      Not many (if any) Health Insurance policies cover payments for breast implants for cosmetic purposes. However, it may be that policies will cover breast implantsif they are required for reconstruction following surgical procedures carried ou...
    • Will my insurance pay for LASIK eye surgery?

      It used to be the case that insurance companiesregarded LASIK eye surgery as a cosmetic procedure and as such would not include the cost of surgery in their cover. However, there is an increasing number of instances where refractive eye surg...
    • The Good in Internet Life Insurance Leads

      What is so good about internet life insurance leads? Why are more and more agents talking about these? If you dont know the answer to these questions you need to continue to read. When it comes down to it, agents are generating internet life...
    • Fla. Tries to Escape Its Overexposure to Storm Damages

      Florida is launching a new assault on hurricanes -- with percentage points. The state's vast public insurance program is seeking a 7.5 percent average increase for its riskiest policies, covering some 300,000 homes on exposed beaches and in...
    • Technical Processing Requirements for Multifamily Project Mortgage Insurance

      SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on...
    • Kerry Urges Affordability Measure Included in Merged Health Bill

      November 13, 2009 Contact: Jodi Seth/Whitney Smith, 202-224-4159 Kerry Urges Affordability Measure Included in Merged Health Bill Kerry proposal builds on successful best practices in Massachusetts health care reform WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sena...
    • Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liab

      Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on November 6, 2009, two proposed and related Consent Decrees in United States v. Carlyle Manufacturing Co., Inc., et al., No. 3:09-1784, and United States v. Timothy Fidgeon as Trustee of the...
    • DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Health Insurance Reform and Ruth Marcus Column on 'Flood of Misstatements'

      HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI November 13, 2009 Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster on What Columnist Ruth Marcus Calls 'the Flood of Sheer Factual Misstatements' Following the passage of historic health insurance reform legislation last Saturd...
    • 6 Investors Bid for 15.6% of Taikang Life

      Six investors took part in the first-round bidding French insurer AXA SA held for a 15.6 percent stake in Chinese insurer Taikang Life Insurance Co., Ltd. last Friday, said sources. They are Temasek Holdings, Blackstone Group, Bain Capital,...
    • InsWeb Leads Monday's AMBG as Global Insurance Index Rises 2.86%

      Laura McArdle OLDWICK, N.J., Nov 10, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- The AMBG closed Monday, Nov. 9, at 813.45 (+2.86%). All 15 A.M. Best stock indexes rose. Leading A.M. Best's Global Insurance Composite Index (AMBG) were InsWeb (+8.70%) a...
    • Continent Insurance Premium Income Rose 13.4%

      BEIJING, Nov 10, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- China Continent Property Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd. (Continent Insurance) reaped a total premium income of CNY 8.43 billion in the first nine months of 2009, with a 13.4%...
    • P&C Trades Unite Against Ending Health Antitrust Immunity

      A group of nine groups of goods and casualty insurance trade industry today charged that the proposed legislation in Congress that would end the exemption under the antitrust laws for insurers Care health, had a hidden agenda of the opening...
    • Med-Mal Insurers Plan A Fight To Keep Antitrust Exemption

      WASHINGTON-Medical insurance cons faults trade groups said they are preparing to fight a proposal to revoke the antitrust exemption, they are now afforded under the McCarran-Ferguson Act law. The Senate Democratic leader ship said they are l...
    • Healthcare Debate Still Dominating Washington

      With the Senate Finance Committee voting to approve its version of healthcare legislation last week, the time has come for congressional leaders in both chambers to begin the difficult task of reconciling it with the several other reform bil...
    • House Republicans Offer Health Overhaul Plan

      House Republicans unveiled their health reform proposal Tuesday night. Their alternative health care bill would reward states for reducing the number of uninsured, limit damages in medical malpractice lawsuits and allow small businesses to b...
    • Insurers' Pricing Practices Targeted By Senate Health Committee

      Senate health committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, asked four of the nations largest health insurers - Aetna, Humana, Wellpoint and UnitedHealth - to explain their pricing policies after small-business owners testified Tuesday that insuran...
    • Tax Credit for 'Black Liquor' Targeted in House Health Bill

      House Democratic tax writers switched up a key offset in the manager's amendment to the health care overhaul bill, including new language that would prevent paper producers from claiming a tax credit for the production of black liquor, a wo...
    • How To Pay For Employees' Health Care?; Proposals To Give Tax Credits Backed By Smaller Non-profits

      The health care reform proposals making their way through Congress stand to have effects on non-profits that reach beyond those organizations directly involved in providing health care. One top concern for smaller non-profits is figuring ou...
    • Adding to debt burden with more public health care is 'insanity'

      A few weeks ago, Dick Donnelly wrote about a difficult personal situation (the death of his wife) that was eased somewhat by the $800,000 medical bills being taken care of by his two government plans, Medicare and Tricare (letter, Sept. 27,...
    • EDITORIAL: Small business, big bills

      Because they lack the bargaining power of a large company, small businesses have a tough time offering employee health insurance. Yet under the state's health reform law, many small operations -- those with 11 or more full-time equivalents -...