Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Survey: Employers Shifting More Costs To Workers
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, June 18, 4:49 p.m. -- U.S. health care costs will continue to rise, and employers will shift more of the ...
June 17, 2002
Mass. Blue To Work With Wells FargoNU Online News Service, June 17, 12:53 p.m. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc., Boston, has picked Wells Fargo Flexible Benefit ...
June 16, 2002
NAIC Adopts Model Controlling Usee Of Discretionary ClausesNAIC Adopts Model Controlling Use Of Discretionary Clauses ByPhiladelphia A model act that would control an insurers ability to use discretionary clauses in health insurance ...
June 16, 2002
Voluntary Dental Can Ease The Bite On Employers' Benefit ExpensesVoluntary Dental Can Ease The Bite On Employers' Benefit ExpensesByMany employers, stung by continuing increases in health insurance premiums, are looking for ways to save ...
June 16, 2002
An Agent Writes About 'The Most Valuable Sales Tool Of All'An Agent Writes About 'The Most Valuable Sales Tool Of All' To The Editor: Twenty years ago as I began my "new life" as an ...
June 16, 2002
How To Talk To Rank-And File Workers About Buy-Up DIHow To Talk To Rank-And-File Workers About Buy-Up DI ByDisability "buy-up" programs, which use individual disability income contracts to supplement group long term disability coverage, ...
June 16, 2002
Want Voluntary Market Profitability? Manage All The RisksWant Voluntary Market Profitability? Manage All The RisksByThe bread and butter of group insurance carriers has traditionally been "core" benefits--insurance coverages offered to all employees ...
June 16, 2002
To Keep Voluntary Disability SalesGrowing ByThe year 2001 was a strong one for disability products sold to employees at the worksite. But with so much attention focused on health ...