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N.Y. union, others exempted from raising minimum annual health benefits
About 351,000 members of a New York teachers union are among nearly 1 million people for whom the new health reform law’s elimination on the cap on insurance costs will not apply. The U.S. Department...
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Companies plan modest changes to employee benefits packages
About one-third of chief financial officers and senior comptrollers in the U.S. plan to cut health care benefits at their companies, according to a new Grant Thornton survey. The biannual survey found...
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Councilor calls firefighters ‘selfish’ for rejecting cheaper coverage
Plattsburgh, N.Y., Councilor James Calnon said a group of city firefighters are needlessly costing taxpayers by not adopting a new self-funded health insurance plan. In 2008, the city asked union...
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State Farm to offer same-sex partners benefits, stating June 1
State Farm Insurance Cos. will begin to offer health insurance and other benefits to its employees’ legally recognized same-sex partners, starting June 1. The Bloomington, Ill.-based insurer’s...
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Former Pa. judge stripped of pension, benefits after fraud conviction
A former Pennsylvania superior court judge was stripped of state-funded pension and state-funded health insurance after defrauding two insurance companies of more than $400,000, the Erie Times News...
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Chubb extends medical benefits to transgender employees, dependents
The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering its medical benefits to transgendered employees and dependents. Trevor Gandy, senior vice president and chief diversity officer for Chubb, called the...
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Baltimore County votes to open health benefits to same-sex couples
Baltimore County’s Health Care Review Committee agreed to extend health care benefits to same-sex couples legally married in other states, starting Jan. 1, 2012. The provision, recommended to the...
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Employers shelling out $2.60 per hour for health benefits
Employers paid an average of $2.60 per hour worked to provide health benefits to their employees in March, according to a quarterly federal report. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report on health...
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Additional PPACA-related health benefits should stay
Health insurers should continue to provide additional benefits created to the federal health reform law, regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules, a plurality of voters in the most recent...
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Half of employers considering shift away from health insurance
Employers are looking more closely at defined contributions, vouchers and exchange purchasing, or eliminating their health benefits, according to a new survey. Nearly half (47%) of employers say they...
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