Block Insurance Agency, which arranges customized fine-arts coverage for individual, commercial and institutional collections.
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The bill would also block insurance companies from dictating treatment options to doctors, and would allow patients direct access to specialists, without need for insurance company approval.
In July Allstate lashed back by threatening to exit the Louisiana homeowner's insurance market altogether if regulators block its plan to drop wind and hail coverage.
Only its Japanese and Korean insurance arms remain on the sale block.
By contrast, Mr Gore would expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme, a set of block grants made to states by the federal government to insure poor children, to reach 1m families living just above the poverty line.
That would include the Medicaid block grants and assistance for the purchase of private health insurance discussed above for those too poor to buy such health insurance on their own.
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But the IRS' attack on split-dollar insurance came months after key congressmen had moved to block the ploy.
Voters in Florida rejected by a slim margin a proposal to amend the state's constitution to try to block the federal health law's requirement that people purchase insurance or pay a penalty.
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Lots of other businesses spanning brokerage, annuities, property and casualty, mortgage insurance and so on, are all theoretically on the block.
President Bush's boldest policy move on health care reform so far could be the veto he used this morning to block a bipartisan bill reauthorizing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers free or low-cost health insurance to children in low-income families.
Their major shareholders, investment consortium Cobra with 17% of Commerzbank and insurance Allianz, which has 21.7% of Dresdner, could block the deal.
With a Medicaid block grant to the states, states could use the block grant funds to provide financing for each poor family to choose the private health insurance of their choice.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a similar bill that would grant both state insurance regulators and the federal Department of Health and Human Services the authority to block rate increases.
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