You will usually see workers compensation liability insurance within every business or organization. Most countries it has become a legal requirement to have such insurance within a business. With this insurance it puts on a safeguard for the employers against any costs or claims that are acquired by the employer due to an injury at [...]

THE acceptance letters are in, decisions are being made and another horde of parents is getting ready to send children to college in the fall.
If you’re part of that wave, here’s an important item for the to-do list: make sure your child has the right kind of health insurance.
The task used to be fairly straightforward. [...]

Aetna  announced that it will cover the transition care services of Napervilles Almost Home Kids (formerly CoACH Care Center) for its members the first insurance company in Illinois to do so (see also Aetna).
The staff of Almost Home Kids trains parents whose critically ill children have been discharged from the hospital. Many of these children [...]

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario on Thursday outlined the reasons behind his intent to turn down the proposed merger of health insurers Independence Blue Cross and Highmark.
Ario was set to render his decision on the proposal on Jan. 27. On Wednesday, that became moot after the two insurers withdrew their application.
IBC in Philadelphia and Highmark [...]

Highmark Inc. processed $20 billion in Medicare claims in 2008 and intends to pay down $54 million in debt principal in 2009, according to an annual financial report released yesterday by the nonprofit insurer.
The report, which includes an independent audit compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a more detailed version of the preliminary report issued earlier this [...]

Quick quiz. In what category does Texas lead all other states?
If college football comes to mind, then guess again. The correct answer is the percentage of uninsured children. Texas is No. 1 in the nation with 1.5 million children — 22 percent of all kids — who lack health insurance.
That has been true for more [...]