insurance commissioners

• A new option (actually 50 of them)

  By Eric Johnson  |  June 1, 2012

  Do you ever wish you could be a fly on the wall when the “other side” is meeting to talk about health reform?

• Talking to myself - Part 1

  By Denis Storey  |  December 1, 2011

  Honestly, do we really want to create and establish a new federal bureaucracy that controls how we create, sell and distribute something like insurance?

• NAIC passes broker compensation resolution

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 23, 2011

  A deeply divided plenary body of the NAIC passed a contentious resolution backed by health insurers and agents but not consumer groups late Tuesday that urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take “whatever immediate actions are available” to it to release agents and brokers from medical...

• MLR: Agent allies may take indirect approach

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  July 13, 2011

  State insurance commissioners who want to help health insurance agents and brokers cope with the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules apparently have decided that a behind-the-scenes strategy has the best chance of succeeding.

• Agent groups urge Congress to fix MLR rule

  By Jenny Ivy  |  November 23, 2010

  Industry groups will seek Congressional intervention to change MLR rules on agent compensation.

• Can brokers survive health reform?

  By Jenny Ivy  |  November 1, 2010

  The dust may have settled on the hill for now, but agents and carriers alike can almost certainly expect more change.

• NAIFA to talk up agents at NAIC meeting

  By Jenny Ivy  |  October 18, 2010

  The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors will present a survey of more than 800 health agents to insurance commissioners next week that will reinforce the important role agents play in handling claims.

• Reform questions answered?

  By Denis Storey  |  August 18, 2010  | Storey Lines

  Guess that's what you get when you throw a bunch of insurance commissioners in a room and tell 'em to figure what Congress meant when they passed health care reform.