Broker Regulation

Seeking a jolt for the economy, President Barack Obama will lay out new ideas for speeding up job growth and helping the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech in early September, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

Insurance regulators have told Michigan's largest health care provider to give seniors who purchase Medigap coverage more time to prove they live in the state so they can avoid a large rate increase.

Wisconsin's powerful statewide teachers union said 40 percent of its staff members were laid off Monday as a result of the law pushed by Gov. Scott Walker and passed by the Legislature curbing collective bargaining rights.

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...

Its been a rough couple of years for insurance agents best case, health reform will drastically change the way brokers do business; worst case, brokers might have their commissions slashed and find that the new insurance exchanges can quickly and easily perform many of the services they offer clients...

The fate of the CLASS Act is in the hands of the Super Committee, a group of 12 lawmakers created to propose more than one trillion dollars in federal spending cuts. Although the newly created committee may have the motivation and means to stop the clock before the starting bell...