Category: Insurance Regulatory News

NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting

Jan 20, 2009

NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) will hold a Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup meeting on Tuesday, January 20, starting at 12:00 p.m. (EST) via teleconference. The registration call-in number is: 412.317.6715. To view …

Clinic owners plead guilty to Medicare fraud

Jan 16, 2009

South Florida Business Journal–January 15, 2009 The owners of two Miami medical clinics, along with a phlebotomist, have pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $5.3 million HIV and cancer infusion fraud scheme, according to the …

Florida Medicaid Computer Still Ailing

Jan 16, 2009

Tampa Tribune–January 16, 2009 By LINDSAY PETERSON Problems erupted with the state’s new Medicaid payment system the day it went online seven months ago, and they haven’t gone away. The Hillsborough Achievement and Resource Center has lost about $12,000 in …

Big health plans lose 190,000 Florida enrollees

Jan 16, 2009

South Florida Business Journal–January 16, 2009 by Brian Bandell The growing unemployment rate drove a loss of nearly 190,000 commercial health plan enrollees at Florida’s largest insurance plans during 2008. A Business Journal survey of the seven-largest commercial health insurers …

Concern about drywall grows

Jan 16, 2009

Bardenton Herald–January 16, 2009 By JESSICA KLIPA MANATEE – A growing number of homeowners worry that they, too, could have foul-smelling Chinese drywall in their homes. The building material has been linked to corrosion of mechanical and electrical systems and …

Alex Sink won’t run for Mel Martinez’s Senate seat

Jan 16, 2009

Miami Herald–January 16, 2009 BY BETH REINHARD Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced Friday that she’s not running for the U.S. Senate, opening the door to a crop of lesser-known contenders. Sink, the only statewide officeholder on the Democratic shortlist, …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Friday, January 16

Jan 16, 2009

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Alex Sink won’t run for Mel Martinez’s Senate seat Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced Friday that she’s not running for the U.S. Senate, opening the door to …

Insurance-Related Meetings for the Week of January 19-23

Jan 16, 2009

  Insurance-Related Meetings:  Week of January 19-23, 2009   Tuesday, January 20   NAIC Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup Meeting The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) will hold a Casualty Actuarial Statistical Subgroup meeting on Tuesday, January 20, starting at …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Thursday, January 15

Jan 15, 2009

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   S&P:  Florida Hurricane Fund, Citizens’ Guaranty Fund Ratings to Negative Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised the outlook to negative from stable on Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (AA-), …