Like the House's version, the Senate's 983- page Agricultural Act of 2026 renews and enhances crop insurance and price support, disaster assistance, risk management programs, operation and marketing loans, and federal agricultural research. Unlike the House edition, the Senate's authorizes year-round sales of E15 gasoline nationwide and delays the "One Big…
Key findings from the fourth annual Wellness Matters survey released by Aflac Incorporated reveal younger generations are turning first to artificial intelligence for health support in lieu of seeking professional medical care.
The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation announced last week that it had reviewed recent rate hike proposals from major health insurance companies and decided on an average 16% increase in costs to individual consumers on the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace. Insurance companies such as Moda Health Plan and BridgeSpan Health Company, which are…
Federato, the AI-native platform for the full policy lifecycle, today launched Federato Claims, an end-to-end claims management system built on the same foundation as underwriting, policy administration, and billing. It captures coverage decisions, reserve movement, and claim reasoning as structured signals and feeds them back into underwriting, pricing,…
A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Norfolk- based Sentara Health of exploiting its monopoly to saddle Charlottesville with the nation's highest Affordable Care Act premiums was dismissed Friday as a federal judge ruled that courts cannot second- guess insurance rates approved by state regulators. It drew an all-star legal team led by Rick Mountcastle, the…
Industry veterans in Republican runoff for insurance commissioner
Longtime insurance professionals from Owasso and Inola will face off in the Aug. 25 runoff election as Republican candidates for state insurance commissioner. Between them, Marty Quinn and Bob Sullivan have more than six decades of experience in the insurance industry. In their campaigns, both have said they would put Oklahomans and lowering insurance costs…
After months of deliberation, Virginia lawmakers finalized budget negotiations shaped by two overlapping challenges: generating revenue to invest in our communities and responding to the damage caused by President Donald Trump's H.R. 1. The federal budget bill is already kicking people off their health insurance, increasing costs for Virginia, and…
In her 58th lawsuit brought against the Trump administration in this second term, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark last week joined a coalition of 19 other attorneys general in filing a lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that illegally undermines the Affordable Care Act and will make health insurance more expensive and harder to obtain.
Relation Insurance Services announced today their acquisition of the assets of Gary McKeighan Insurance Agency, Inc.. Located in Fresno, California, Gary McKeighan Insurance has deep expertise in the state’ s agricultural industry. Relation Insurance Services is actively seeking partnerships to expand its offerings, industry expertise, and geographic…
The audit by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli examined 275 laboratory procedures with lifetime limits set by the state's Department of Health, including many pertaining to genetic tests that "typically shouldn't be needed more than once." Auditors uncovered 91,718 claims totaling $19.6 million in Medicaid payments filed between June 2019 and December 2025…
The following information was released by the Human Rights Campaign:. WASHINGTON Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the law firm Correia and Puth filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on behalf of federal employees and their families, suing the Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management for prohibiting health insurance…
