Kevin James Murphy was killed on the 100th floor while working for Marsh& McLennan, a global professional-services firm specializing in insurance brokerage, risk management, consulting and other services. From Smithtown, Long Island, and one of five children, he had just turned 40 on Sept. 1. His widow, Beth Murphy, was left to raise their two children, Connor, 7, and…
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2026 SEP 08– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ Home health care helps patients-including those recently discharged from the hospital-regain function and maintain…
2026 SEP 08– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Engineering. Funders for this research include National Science Foundation, NSF-Simons SkAI Institute, NSF CAREER, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health- USA, Google Research Scholar Award, Cisco gift grant.
2026 SEP 08– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. According to news reporting out of Little Rock, Arkansas, by NewsRx editors, research stated,“ Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older are susceptible to receiving potentially inappropriate medications, for which the risks outweigh the…
2026 SEP 08– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on Cancer are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Menlo Park, California, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ The burden of a new cancer diagnosis on state Medicaid programs is not well understood. Our study aimed to quantify Medicaid program…
Rising health costs may leave Main Street business owners facing increased difficulty attracting new employees and making key investments, experts warned the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Sky-high and rapidly escalating health plan costs are a major problem for small businesses, which often run on razor-thin margins," Job Creators Network Foundation…
Tina Kotek’ s Prosperity Council found that most Oregonians believe high costs, taxes and regulations are making it harder for businesses to grow. One place to start is with the steep credit-card processing fees Oregon businesses pay on nearly every transaction. Businesses across the U.S. paid a record $157 billion in credit card“ swipe fees” last year, $9 billion…
The Buffalo News is republishing the story as part of a no-paywall event for Labor Day weekend. Linda Kozlowski, 68, Carrie Beaver, 75, and Carl Patterson, 69, are all Parkinson’ s patients who live in Western New York. But all three were distressed to learn recently that their health insurance provider, Univera Healthcare, has decided that it will stop offering…
Cord Silverstein had been a Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina member for 12 years when he missed one monthly payment this summer and lost coverage— for himself, his wife and his daughter— for the rest of the year. Blue Cross sent him a letter July 7 to tell him that his policy was canceled. Blue Cross referred Silverstein to the Health Insurance Marketplace, where…
*Corresponding author: Francis Boakai Passawe, School of Postgraduate Studies in Economics University of Liberia, West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia. Despite Liberia recording one of the highest foreign direct investment- to-GDP ratios in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2018-2023, the country remained among the poorest nations globally, raising the question of…
Crude oil is repricing risk across every equity portfolio right now. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that oil price shocks transmit to equity valuations primarily through the earnings channel, not the discount rate. Why Oil Prices Matter to Equity Investors.
The volume of ceded U.S. health insurance premium to the reinsurance market has grown significantly over the past decade, to USD 203 billion in 2025 from USD 59 billion in 2016, representing growth of more than 300%, according to a new AM Best report. “Underwriting margins across several U.S. health insurance segments have been under pressure, prompting insurers…
The issue was raised during a County Council work session by Council Chair Justin Paulsen, who sits on a subcommittee examining insurance gaps. UW Clinic agreed to temporarily accept Ambetter, and the Orcas clinic brought it on through Highland Hospital. Officials fear losing Ambetter entirely in the next cycle, leaving zero carriers— something the state…
The absence of U.S banks from trading yesterday led to a cautious Monday while a long holiday weekend within North America likely allowed for nervous sentiment to simmer as traders brace for the global markets to gyrate, this as the long summer slumber has now officially ended. The USD/ZAR is trading within a tentative marketplace early today as it awaits the…
The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded $31.2 billion in net underwriting income in the first half of 2026, nearly three times the $10.9 billion posted in the same prior-year period, according to a new AM Best report. Also driving the net underwriting gain was a 3% increase in net earned premiums and a 5% decline in incurred losses and loss-adjustment…
San Francisco: On Sept. 4, President Trump issued a directive to the Federal Reserve and Chair Kevin Warsh that interest rates had better be lowered or he "ll stop trading with countries the U.S. has a trading deficit with. It "s also important to recognize that the Federal Reserve" s independence, which the president "s language clearly aims to undermine, is essential…
Illinois hospitals stand to lose upwards of $4 billion in revenue over the next several years due to impending changes in Medicaid rules that limit states' ability to direct higher reimbursement payments to facilities that serve the most vulnerable populations. And unless Congress acts to reverse those policies before they take full effect, IHA officials…
"Guzman Fralick also said she still opposes the Affordable Care Act… In a recent interview on Nevada Newsmakers, Guzman Fralick referred to an example from her time as a lawyer in Gov. Guzman Fralick wanted the state to file a lawsuit against a provision in the Affordable Care Act requiring people to sign up for health insurance.
ALBANY— The state Department of Financial Services has authorized the next round of health insurance premium rates for 2027, allowing companies to hike premiums by between 6% and 8%. Under state law, the agency has the power to approve, deny or modify the rate structures that health insurers in New York plan to set for their customers, with the exception of some…
