by The Associated Press | Jan 30, 2018 | Banking & Lending, Commercial & Industrial, CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance, Residential Real Estate
Amazon is diving into health care, teaming up with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase, to create a company that helps their U.S. employees find quality care “at a reasonable cost.”
by The Commercial Record | Jan 26, 2018 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
After a nationwide search, Trinity Health of New England will install a new CEO in the spring. Reginald J. Eadie will be the system’s new president and CEO, beginning on March 26. Eadie will replace Roger Spoelman, who has served as interim president and CEO since Christopher Dadlez stepped down at the end of 2017.
by The Commercial Record | Jan 24, 2018 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed Victoria Veltri to serve as executive director of the state’s Office of Health Strategy, a new state office created through the consolidation of several existing resources as part of the bipartisan state budget that was adopted in October.
by The Associated Press | Jan 11, 2018 | Commercial & Industrial, CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
New York City is halting a $9.6 million incentive package offered to Aetna to move its headquarters to the city.
by The Commercial Record | Jan 10, 2018 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Leadership Greater Hartford received a $2,400 sponsorship award from Aetna in support of four youth to attend their Summer Nexus youth leadership development program.
by The Associated Press | Jan 5, 2018 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut lawmakers are expected to move forward next week with plans to restore funding for a program that helps about 140,000 seniors pay for Medicare expenses, despite a last-minute decision by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to further delay the planned eligibility cuts.
by The Associated Press | Dec 22, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut residents are running out of time to sign up through the state’s online health insurance exchange for coverage starting in the new year.
by The Associated Press | Dec 20, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut lawmakers say they’ll likely pass a plan in the new year to permanently replenish funds to a program that helps cover Medicare-related expenses for tens of thousands of indigent senior citizens and people with disabilities.
by The Commercial Record | Dec 19, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance, Residential Real Estate
If there is one thing that 2017 has taught us, it’s that uncertainty is certain. From international dealings to domestic policy, no time has been as uncertain as now. There’s no exception when talking about the National Flood Insurance Program.
by Reuters | Dec 6, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
The California Department of Insurance is seeking to suspend or revoke Wells Fargo & Co.’s licenses for alleged improper insurance sales practices related to the company’s online insurance referral program.
by Reuters | Dec 4, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
U.S. drugstore chain operator CVS Health Corp. said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire Hartford-based U.S. health insurer Aetna Inc. for $69 billion, seeking to tackle soaring health care spending through lower-cost medical services in pharmacies.
by The Associated Press | Nov 29, 2017 | CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut lawmakers were urged Tuesday to consider ways to possibly avoid or mitigate any future contract impasses between insurance companies and health care systems, like the seven-week dispute between Hartford HealthCare and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield that affected tens of thousands of residents.
by The Commercial Record | Nov 13, 2017 | CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade recently announced that U.S. veterans applying for insurance licenses are eligible to be reimbursed for licensing exam fees.
by Bram Berkowitz | Nov 7, 2017 | CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Seema Hingorani in 2015 founded Girls Who Invest, a nonprofit aimed at getting more female fund managers into asset management and other realms of finance. Hingorani aims to have 30 percent of the world’s investable capital managed by women by 2030.
by The Associated Press | Nov 6, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance, Residential Real Estate
Connecticut legislators are looking to help hundreds, if not thousands, of homeowners whose foundations are crumbling because of an iron sulfide found in the concrete by creating the state’s own insurance company.
by Mike Flaim | Nov 1, 2017 | CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Aetna trumped third-quarter earnings expectations and raised its 2017 forecast again, even as the health insurer’s withdrawal from the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces contributed to a revenue miss. The nation’s third-largest insurer balanced a 5 percent...
by The Associated Press | Oct 23, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
It’s still business as usual for Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, despite failed congressional efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law and President Donald Trump’s proposal to stop federal payments to insurers.
by The Associated Press | Oct 23, 2017 | CR Daily, Industry News, Insurance
Federal prosecutors are seeking more than a year in prison for a Norwich man convicted in an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in eastern Connecticut.
by The Commercial Record | Oct 16, 2017 | CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut joined with 17 other states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s decision to abruptly stop making health care cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidy payments required by the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) – a...
by The Associated Press | Oct 3, 2017 | Commercial & Industrial, CR Daily, Executive Briefing, Industry News, Insurance
Connecticut Comptroller Kevin Lembo is urging Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Hartford HealthCare to reach a deal to keep thousands of residents from paying much higher costs for health care.