Insurance

Auto Club to cut automobile insurance for 1 million customers

2013-05-23 00:00:00

About 1 million customers of the Automobile Club of Southern California will get an average $65 reduction in their annual car insurance bills, the auto club and the state Insurance Department announced. The total rate cut for all motorists came to $70...

Witness: Michael Jackson passed medical exam 'with flying colors'

2013-05-22 13:34:00

A few months before Michael Jackson’s death, AEG executives were told that the performer had passed a medical exam “with flying colors,” an in-house attorney for the company testified Wednesday. Shawn Trell, senior vice president and...

UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange

2013-05-22 17:59:00

Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation'...

Auto Club of Southern California cuts car insurance rates

2013-05-22 00:00:00

About 1 million customers of the Automobile Club of Southern California will get an average $65 reduction in their annual car insurance premiums, the company and the state insurance department announced Wednesday. The total rate cut came to $70 million,...

Why the medical device tax needs to stay

2013-05-21 20:43:00

The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...

AEG sought life insurance on 'basket case' Michael Jackson

2013-05-21 15:00:00

In the days before Michael Jackson’s death, AEG executives were still attempting to secure a life insurance policy on the performer who had been acting erratically at rehearsals for his comeback tour, according to testimony and emails revealed in...

Family of unarmed man killed by Downey officer to get $4.5 million

2013-05-21 11:59:00

The family of an unarmed man killed by a Downey police officer with a submachine gun in a case of mistaken identity has agreed to a $4.5-million settlement with the city's insurer. Michael Nida, 31, was fatally shot in the back Oct. 22, 2011, by Officer...

Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]

2013-05-18 05:00:00

We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...

California's jobless hotline hours slashed

2013-05-17 00:00:00

SACRAMENTO — Want help from the state getting unemployment benefits? Don't call after noon. Because of federal budget cuts, the California Employment Development Department has told its call center workers not to answer its benefits hotline...

Cedars-Sinai stands out for steep pricing

2013-05-17 00:00:00

When Medicare disclosed average charges from thousands of U.S. hospitals for 100 common procedures last week, only one hospital was near the top in every category: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Be it a cardiac stent, a hip replacement or a...

GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law

2013-05-13 20:14:00

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...

Letters: How much to fix that dog bite?

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Re "After ER trip, it's hospital bill shock," Column, May 10 and "Medical rates range off the chart," May 9 David Lazarus' column on a child's dog bite that resulted in an emergency room bill of $1,721.75 exposes a flaw in the business of healthcare....

A screen grab of the Illinois Department of Insurance logo.

2013-05-13 10:18:00

No. 438 W.R. Berkely 2013 Revenues: $5.8 billion According to their website, "W. R. Berkley Corporation is a financial services company focused on the property and casualty insurance business."

2013-05-06 12:53:10

The lifetime cost of losing a limb can run to $500,000, and health insurers often impose strict limits on reimbursement for such care. A new coalition of prosthetics and orthotics makers has said it will step in to help Boston Marathon amputees with little or no insurance coverage.

2013-04-30 14:37:44