The Obama administration has unveiled a deficit reduction package that could impose a $6 billion hit on corporate-owned life insurance arrangements and raise $866 billion by turning the federal estate tax clock back to 2009.
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee teamed with insurance agent groups Tuesday to attack U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) efforts to apply a uniform fiduciary standard to investment product sales.
The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) an employer group is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make administration of the new comparative effectiveness research fee as simple as possible.
Retirement plan professional groups are asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to stick with the current registration process for continuing education (CE) programs.
The 11 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) ensures that the U.S. Supreme Court will be the ultimate arbiter of the laws constitutionality, but it also further muddies the water as to what benefits employers will have to provide...
The new federal budget deal resolution may not refer directly to private health insurance, but it could have major effects on the health market, an analyst says.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed regulations for the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program – an initiative that is supposed to create a new type of nonprofit, consumer-governed health insurer.
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) is backing an effort by health insurance agents to get Congress to exempt producer compensation from health insurance medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations.
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