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Florida Governor Rick Scott has chastised state lawmakers for failing to fully consider a controversial plan to use state premium tax credits to help shore-up the state’s homeowners’ reinsurance fund before attaching it to the state budget. Scott used his … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party's campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama's healthcare law if the measure is overturned… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

An Environmental Protection Agency official says a cleanup plan has been approved for a Superfund site at a former phosphorous production plant in eastern Idaho. The Idaho State Journal reported that spokesman Roger McLerran at a meeting Friday of the … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

A plan to help ensure the California Coastal Conservancy can work on addressing climate change was approved by the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. Senate Bill 1066, authored by state Sen. Ted W. Lieu, D-Torrance, would require the conservancy … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

The agency overseeing Massachusetts’ landmark health care law has begun enrolling thousands of legal immigrants into the subsidized insurance program after the state’s highest court ruled that state lawmakers unconstitutionally denied the benefit to foreign-born residents who have been in … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has filed a lawsuit to block the state’s planned switch to a new health insurance company, alleging improper lobbying on United Healthcare’s behalf. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that Blue Cross says the … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

The Texas Insurance Automobile Insurance Plan Association has announced the election of officers for 2012-2013. Long-time board member Fred Strauss, production operations director- shared markets governance for Allstate Insurance in Northbrook, Ill., was elected to head the association’s governing committee. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

South Africa on Saturday launched a plan to diagnose tuberculosis in the country's gold mines, where the disease's incidence is the highest in the world. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

John Paulson, a billionaire hedge fund manager and the largest shareholder of The Hartford Financial Services Group, says the company’s plan to exit most of its life insurance businesses is a good start — but just a first step. Paulson … View full post on Insurance Journal » News