"… rg …"

"… company, I might have been able to help.One of the reasons I stayed in the insurance industry so long — nearly 20 years — was because occasionally I was ab …"

"… nbsp;I know from experience that when a reporter or politician contacts an insurance company on behalf of a policyholder, firm executives will elevate the case …"

"… keep a story out of the media, or to stay in a politician’s good graces, insurance company bureaucrats will often do an about face and agree to pay for cover …"

"… more likely to be worrying about whether they’ll be able to offer health insurance to their employees for another year.Or is this the year they join the ever …"

"… ever-growing list of small businesses that have been “purged” by their insurance carrier?For several years now, insurance companies have been “purging” …"

"… t have been “purged” by their insurance carrier?For several years now, insurance companies have been “purging” small business accounts they no longer c …"

"…   I became familiar with “purging” (yes, that’s the actual word insurance executives use internally) toward the end of my career as an industry PR m …"

"… rce was initiating a new effort to raise millions more from energy, health insurance, financial services, and other firms to fund a new anti-regulatory campaig …"

"… gislation. Two lobbying sources familiar with talks underway by high-level insurance executives say that a decision to go forward with such an effort is likely …"

"… t to the companies since the new drive will also try to improve the health insurance industry’s public image after the beating it took during a year-long fig …"

"… h borrowed through TARP, such as GM, Ally and AIG. (GAO) …"

"… l incentives to TRICARE-eligible beneficiaries to opt out of employer-paid insurance and shift health care costs to the Pentagon, according to the Government A …"

"… mployees who are eligible for TRICARE to decline employer-sponsored health insurance, or to terminate enrollment in private insurance.As a result, the Pentagon …"

"… employer-sponsored health insurance, or to terminate enrollment in private insurance.As a result, the Pentagon predicts a savings of $436 million by 2015. But …"

"… co-sponsors.What’s at stake, depending on who you ask, are the fates of insurance brokers and agents nationwide or the future of one of the most consumer-fr …"

"… he Medical Loss Ratio rule, this provision mandates that every health insurance company spend at least 80 to 85 percent of the premium money it takes in ( …"

"… their advocates see things differently. Facing new caps on overhead, many insurance companies have cut payments to the agents and brokers they pay to help sel …"

"… 11, the measure would exempt “remuneration paid for licensed independent insurance producers” from the administrative overhead calculations, effectively ta …"

"… Kennedy sat were holding companies; the third was a property-and casualty-insurance company. The firms, two of which were incorporated in May 1997 and the oth …"

"… in September 1999 after McAuliffe failed to secure a loan in time for the insurance company to begin operations.Raised close to $275 millionMcAuliffe has been …"

"… mpanies’ other board members, has no experience in property and casualty insurance. She is a career military officer, having served for more than 30 years, a …"

"… .” Such investigations are standard procedure for companies applying for insurance licenses in the state. Kennedy also submitted fingerprints to the Florida …"

"… lted in more than $6.1 billion in loans winning automatic approval for FHA insurance even though those borrowers had too much debt and posed a greater risk of …"

"… ard,” to calculate the creditworthiness of an applicant for FHA mortgage insurance. But HUD made changes to the Scorecard’s review rules in 2005 and 2007 � …"

"… are system should be reformed, they typically mention two things: allowing insurance firms to sell policies across state lines, which I wrote about T …"

"… and medical associations — would not only bring down the costs of health insurance premiums, it would also bring doctors flocking to their states to practice …"

"… the last decade, health care spending and individual out-of-pocket health insurance expenses have actually risen faster in Texas than in the rest of the count …"

"… consumer and patient rights.At the same time, the number of people without insurance in Texas has continued to climb. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bur …"