Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
Read moreAn insurance collective is suing California’s insurance commissioner, claiming its new mandate to make coverage more accessible to those in wildfire-prone areas will force cost increases.
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More than 130,000 people have purchased health insurance through California’s state-run marketplace for the first time, a 16% increase from last year now that the state is offering more money to help people pay their monthly premiums and will begin taxing people next year who refuse to buy insurance.
Read moreA former executive claims Anthem Inc. is illegally demanding $4.2 million from him for alleged violation of a non-competition agreement, in L.A. Federal Court.
Read moreXL Specialty Insurance Co. claims in superior court that Starz Entertainment owes it $10 million for the $92.5 million shareholder class action settlement after Starz was purchased by Lions Gate.
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A lawyer for insurers that paid into the so-called risk corridor of the federal health care law told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government had engaged in a bait and switch with $12 billion on the line.
Read moreUrging a bankruptcy judge to reject Pacific Gas and Electric’s $11 billion settlement with insurers, a wildfire victims’ lawyer likened the deal to dangling money that comes with a pernicious catch in front of “desperate” people.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced Tuesday a plan that offers free access to PrEP, the daily pill regimen that prevents HIV infection among users who have not yet contracted the disease.
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President Donald Trump’s attempt to bar immigrants without health insurance from entering the United States won’t take effect yet, after a federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Tuesday.
Read morePresident Trump’s proclamation barring the entry of immigrants who don’t have health care is an illegal abuse of presidential authority and a federal judge should prevent it from taking effect at the end of the month, attorneys argued Friday.
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With the fate of millions of Americans’ health insurance hanging in the balance, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is due to rule in a bellwether case that could gut the Affordable Care Act after Congress removed the individual mandate tax penalty two years ago.
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The Trump administration announced new rules Friday that would require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual cost of common medical procedures.
Read moreAn attorney for Universal Music Group told a federal judge Monday that artists seeking a cut of an insurance settlement from a 2008 fire that destroyed their master recordings have no stake in the matter since recordings belong solely to the label.
Read moreA federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas.
Read moreMore Americans are going without health insurance, and stable premiums plus greater choice next year under the Obama health care law aren’t likely to reverse that.
Read moreConsumers will have more health insurance choices next year under former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and premiums will dip slightly for many, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
Read moreEmployers Mutual Casualty Co. claims in federal court that it has no duty to defend a Montana woman who failed to secure a gun with which her son, who was prohibited from owning, using or possessing guns, allegedly killed another man.
Read moreOn the eve of a months-long jury trial, California and Sutter Health reached a settlement in principle Wednesday to resolve antitrust claims against Northern California’s largest health care provider.
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