Agent commissions have declined dramatically since the medical loss ratio (MLR) provision of the health care reform law went into effect, forcing many agents to reduce their services to clients, consider charging fees for services they had been providing at no additional charge and in some cases, laying off employees...

The individual health insurance price difference limits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) could lead to big increases in rates for some young consumers starting in 2014.

The sale of AIG stock is just the latest in a series of steps that signal the once-troubled insurer's eventual escape from the shadow of its near-collapse in 2008 and 2009.