Pennsylvania

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  Highmark gets Pa. approval for West Penn takeover

  By AP Staff Writer  |  April 29, 2013

  The conditions of the approval are designed to protect the public, community hospitals and Highmark policyholders.

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  Penn Treaty parties spar over policyholder panel proposal

  By Allison Bell  |  April 29, 2013

  The chairman of the companies says the rehabilitator should represent the policyholders.

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  HIPAA privacy: Excuses, excuses

  By Allison Bell  |  April 26, 2013

  Providers see the rules as traps; caregivers see them as locks meant to shoo them away.

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  Beleaguered caregivers getting help from apps

  By Jim Fitzgerald  |  April 22, 2013

  Use of a tracking app helped the wife of a man with Alzheimer's return to work.

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  On the Third Hand: Sick people

  By Allison Bell  |  April 22, 2013

  Democrats are ignoring them; Republicans are using them as human shields.

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  What MetLife's learning from its Walmart pilot program

  By Brian Anderson  |  April 22, 2013

  The carrier is making adjustments to, and expanding, its foray into big box direct sales.

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  California advisor charged with grand theft from seniors

  By Harry Lew  |  April 19, 2013

  The advisor allegedly accepted a total of $60,000 from two elderly clients to purchase annuities, but never sent the premiums to the insurer.

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  Sebelius: The exchanges really will open Oct. 1

  By Allison Bell  |  April 18, 2013

  She said HHS has only 10 percent of the anticipated implementation funding.

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  8 consumers speak out on investment scams

  By Daniel Williams  |  April 12, 2013

  A few bad apples can cause irreparable damage to the clients they harm.

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  Governance procedures to get their own model law

  By Liz Festa  |  April 8, 2013

  “Confidentiality is a many-headed hydra," says Susan Donegon, Vermont insurance commissioner, on balancing insurers' protection with regulators' needs for review.