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Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. will raise the quarterly dividend it pays shareholders by more than 30 percent due in part to strong growth across its businesses. It also authorized a stock buyback.

The incoming president of the American Medical Association says not to expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part of the sweeping federal health care law.

Cecilia E. Norat, Esq. received the Chairs Distinguished Service Award at the New York Insurance Associations annual conference May 31 in New Paltz, N.Y.

Here we go again. In an event about as frequent as a bipartisan vote, employers are apparently on the same page as their employees.

Weve been hearing for a while how employer-based health plans are an endangered species. And it appears that beeline to extinction is accelerating. Maybe.

I want to talk briefly about the statistics behind the "best cities for health brokers" study, and why a city like Chattanooga could come in at No. 1 and why New York City didnt even crack the top 20.