State insurance commissioners generally refuse to allow arbitration clauses in insurance contracts, federal law be damned.
Also ensuring, as the ACA enables, that DPC practices are included in the state Insurance Exchanges.
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Hint: If they hold a state insurance license, they have no fiduciary duty.
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Finally, insurers have shifted coverage for homes in high-risk areas to state insurance pools.
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Florida officials are investigating, and state insurance regulators in Ohio, Texas and California are jumping in, too.
Mr. Davis was appointed a New York state insurance superintendent before becoming a banker specializing in insurance securities.
If you are okay with this, then cross state insurance sales may be the answer you are seeking.
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The federal law gives state insurance regulators the power to review premium hikes but not to reject them.
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That means a larger health-care agenda beyond the GOP talking points of medical malpractice and cross-state insurance purchases.
This allows DOJ and FTC the ability to look into, in complement with state insurance regulations, to ensure competitiveness.
State insurance departments and industry lobbyists would then need to get behind it.
Additionally, it alters state insurance regulations to beef up mental health care coverage.
Obviously there are state insurance commissioners that have some ability to change these.
Many have had to repeatedly seek approval from state insurance departments for price increases to offset costs they didn't anticipate.
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As a former state insurance commissioner and governor, Kathleen has been on the front lines of our health care crisis.
After the state insurance agency discovered the fraud, it warned this FA that it would inform FINRA about the crime.
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To help compensate, she skipped her mortgage payment last month, and signed up for a state insurance plan for welfare recipients.
Sebelius, a two-term Democratic governor in a Republican-leaning state, previously served as a state insurance commissioner and oversaw Kansas' Medicaid program.
For decades, many insurers were content with this cozy system, since state insurance regulators were rarely seen as advocates of the consumer.
Like Carrig and Bakke, John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor, and former state insurance commissioner Jo Musser have moderate leanings.
If a state insurance commissioner already has an effective rate review it will be the regulator doing the review, not the Feds.
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State insurance regulators should be appointed rather than elected so they are less prone to being influenced by special interest groups and lobbyists.
Right now, the opposition is led by turf-conscious state insurance regulators, consumer groups, member-owned insurance companies and trade groups representing independent insurance agents.
Last year a group of state insurance regulators hired PIMCO to replace rating agencies in analysing mortgage-backed securities held by firms they oversee.
"The world will be watching, " warns Louisiana State Insurance Commissioner J.
But, like so many things offered by our Republican friends in Congress, the notion of cross-state insurance sales may not be quite so good as it first appears.
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If implemented well and with appropriate flexibility, state insurance exchanges could help your constituents buy insurance products as easily and efficiently as they buy goods at Amazon.com.
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State Insurance Commissioner Stephen Poizner said his office has 100 fraud investigators on the ground going door-to-door with local law enforcement, telling residents how to avoid scam artists.
The DFS alleged that the companies violated state insurance law.
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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