2026 JAN 05– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for“ EMPOWER PERSONAL WEALTH” by Rachel A. Rice, representing Great-West Life& Annuity Insurance Company. This application was made available to the public on…
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2026 JAN 05– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in Drugs and Therapies- Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy. According to news reporting originating from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ The 2028 incorporation of Part B drugs into the Medicare Drug Price…
Maryland officials and health care advocates announced on Monday a $100,000 media advocacy campaign for the state’ s Easy Enrollment health insurance program, betting that increased awareness will lead to broader coverage. The University of Maryland, the Horizon Foundation, LifeBridge Health, and the Maryland Hospital Association are among the sponsors…
American Integrity Insurance Group, Inc., a leading Southeast regional property insurer with a long-standing record of disciplined underwriting and financial resilience, today announced its expansion into North Carolina. American Integrity now offers its homeowners insurance product to North Carolina residents, representing a strategic extension…
It was Thanksgiving weekend, and Jody Crow was having chest pains. That changed when Crow, who is self-employed and makes less than $40,000 a year, was told her monthly insurance premiums would increase from $80 to $407 a month. The Texas Association of Health Plans reported in September that premiums for over 3 million Texans who rely on tax credits would jump by…
The following information was released by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:. Authors: Michelle Long, Justin Lo, Rayna Wallace, and Kaye Pestaina. The expiration of the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits, along with the passage of the budget reconciliation law, implementation of new Marketplace regulations, and other administrative changes,…
The following information was released by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:. Authors: Alice Burns, Maiss Mohamed, and Molly O'Malley Watts. Such shortages could increase as states will face tough choices about how to absorb Medicaid cuts stemming from the 2025 reconciliation law, which is estimated to reduce federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over…
The Baldwin Group today announced leadership appointments in its Insurance Advisory Solutions segment, the firm’ s retail property and casualty and employee benefits brokerage business. Joe Valerio, Chief Operating Officer, The Baldwin Group’s Insurance Advisory Solutions segment. Following The Baldwin Group’ s recently closed merger with CAC Group, Erin…
Remington Bixby Hotchkis thinks fighting wildfires with water in California may be so yesterday. The ranching family scion with roots stretching back to the 19th century San Joaquin Ranch in Orange County to the early days of oil drilling in Long Beach and a spread in the Santa Ynez Valley, is leading an innovative effort in California to commercialize a new…
Open enrollment for individual health insurance closes on Jan. 15. Still, many people in Washington remain on the fence about coverage in 2026. Some are deciding between plans.
New York Life, America’ s largest mutual life insurer, 1 today announced that the company once again enters the new year with the highest possible financial strength ratings currently awarded to any U.S. life insurer by all four major ratings agencies. In November 2025, New York Life announced that the company will pay an estimated $2.78 billion in dividends to…
Nichols Cauley, a leading accounting and advisory firm, today announced a transformative merger with insurance brokerage Partners Risk Services and transactions advisory firm JGH Consulting. The new platform is supported by a strategic growth investment from Madison Dearborn Partners, a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago.
SageSure, the largest residential property MGU in the US specializing in catastrophe-exposed markets, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Gemini Financial Holdings Corporation and its Olympus subsidiaries, one of the leading underwriting franchises in Florida. As part of the transaction, Valence Insurance Holdings, the parent…
Talcott Financial Group, an international life insurance group and leading provider of comprehensive risk solutions, today announced its official launch in the retail annuity market segment with three fixed annuity products. Talcott’ s annuity offerings include one multi-year guaranteed annuity and two fixed indexed annuities- one focused on…
Venerable Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of SunAmerica Asset Management, LLC and the close of the reinsurance transaction involving The United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York, the final two components of the landmark agreement with Corebridge Financial, Inc. announced in June 2025.
Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham both knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. Instead, like many other same-sex couples, Berton and Higginbotham, who live in Santa Clara County, had to pay $45,000 out of pocket to conceive while heterosexual colleagues with the same insurance plan had many of those costs covered.
Unchecked, that could drive up health care costs for self-insured groups— or even push health insurance premiums higher, say officials with the insurer, Blue Cross of Idaho. Nutex Health, based in Houston, operates boutique hospitals providing what it calls a“ concierge” level of around-the-clock emergency care, plus some“ specialty” services, according to its…
Democrats did after the 2024 election, and now it's Republicans turn as the New Year begins with a big spike in health insurance premiums for many Americans. While Democrats try to keep voters' attention focused on health care, Republicans are reminding them of the new tax cuts and the old temporary ones made permanent by the bill. "The press does a great job of…
ORANGE, Calif.— Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. It marked the start of a $20 million campaign by the Medicaid health insurer to help low-income residents get and maintain health coverage and food benefits as federal restrictions under…
