Monica Lindeen

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  Montana exchange could offer three carriers

  By Allison Bell  |  May 30, 2013

  The state's Blue Cross company may set up a multi-state plan.

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  Insurers lose unclaimed property case in Kentucky

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  April 4, 2013

  "The traditional industry practice allows insurance companies to stick their heads in the sand and ignore publicly available data," said the judge in his decision.

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  New Montana law targets life insurance companies

  By AP Staff Writer  |  April 1, 2013

  A new state law requires life companies to search for beneficiaries when a policyholder dies.

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  Pennsylvania's Consedine and NAIC's Thompson expected for new roles

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  December 1, 2012

  The NAIC leadership lineup will be Republican-heavy with Donelon, Hamm and Consedine.

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  FACI Meeting Sets Sail Aug. 6 on International Issues

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  August 3, 2012

  FACI's agenda reflects Federal Insurance Office director Michael McRaith's global view of FIO's role currently, not insurer pet peeves.

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  State Regulators Concerned Over Health Care Costs if PPACA Fractured

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  June 27, 2012

  North Dakota's Hamm likens unhinging the individual mandate from the rest of the act to unpinning a grenade and putting it in Americans' laps.

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  FACI Sets Next Washington Meeting for Aug. 6

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  June 4, 2012

  Huge demographic changes are prime for two subcommittees organized as the Affordability and Accessibility of Insurance Subcommittee and the International Regulatory Balance Subcommittee.

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  The Catch: Paperwork

  By Allison Bell  |  March 20, 2012

  PPACA may not do much to decrease the mortality rate of the trees, HHS knows how it's doing, and more.

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  NAHU Looks at the CO-OPs

  By Allison Bell  |  March 13, 2012

  John Morrison of Montana and others are trying to create a new type of enrollee-owned health plan.

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  Put 'Em Up: Why All the Discord and Confusion over the MLR at the NAIC?

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  March 7, 2012

  After a series of unusual decisions and signs of infighting, some some are left to wonder if the NAIC is showing the stress fractures that are bound to result when a group dedicated to state insurance regulation finds itself in an era of relentlessly encroaching federal oversight.