Agency Management

Employers are working overtime to sort through the details of the new health-care reform legislation and its effect on their benefits programs.

Independent agents are tired of losing personal lines market share to direct writers and they will be fighting back in 2011, said the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA).

The person who will be sitting in the governor's chair this coming January will face a myriad of challenges, not the least of which is Florida's troubled property insurance market and other insurance-related issues.

The Department of Health and Human Services last night issued a statement that it will allow great flexibility to employers in applying medical loss ratio (MLR) standards to certain health plans under the health care reform law.

It seems to me that insurance companies are more interested in paying shareholders than claimants. I've read that insurer profitability is improving and can't figure out why that should be good news for me.

Who won, who lost in the new Medical Loss Ratio regulations? Maybe everybody got a bit of good news.