2026 JUN 23– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in Economics. For more information on this research see: Regulated Competition In Health Insurance Markets On Two Sides of the Atlantic. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2026; 40: 43-68. Journal of Economic Perspectives can be contacted at: Amer…
Roughly half of U.S. adults say measures aiming to boost drug and health insurance affordability will likely sway which candidates they vote for in this year's midterm elections, the poll shows. "Americans are concerned about the cost of healthcare, and they are looking to the government and their elected officials to alleviate the burden— and soon," Ipsos Vice…
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of“ a” of Allshores General Insurance Company Limited, Allshores Life and Benefits Company Limited and Island Heritage Insurance Company, Ltd.. Concurrently, AM Best has affirmed the Long-Term ICR of“ bbb” of the parent company, Allshores Limited.
Sign up for the Planet Money newsletter. Alan Greenspan, who steered the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades, through some of the longest economic booms in U.S. history, has died. Greenspan died Monday at his home in Washington.
His wife, the NBC news correspondent Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement this morning that Greenspan died of complications from Parkinson's disease. NPR's Scott Horsley joins us now. So, Scott, Greenspan led the Federal Reserve under four different presidents- Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, both George Bushs.
EPIC Insurance Brokers& Consultants, a national insurance brokerage and consulting firm providing specialized services and products across select industries and client sectors, today announced that auto dealership finance and insurance experts Ryan Hoff and John Jacobi have joined the firm. Joining Hoff and Jacobi are senior team members Jeff Rodewald…
The following information was released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ranking Member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Jack Reed, Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin, and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve Michelle W. Bowman,…
The following information was released by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden:. Senator Ron Wyden, joined by U.S. The Trump Administration's rule promotes the use of catastrophic health plans with extremely high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs, loosens physician network requirements for plans and proposes that insurers be allowed to offer "non-network" plans…
