South Dakota

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  Insurers embrace bill to tailor proposed Fed capital rules

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  May 24, 2013

  The legislation would offer relief from the Fed's proposed capital standards for insurers and other nonbanks.

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  Top 30 colleges for highest starting salaries

  By Dan Berman  |  May 23, 2013

  Out of 1,058 colleges surveyed, graduates of these schools grabbed the biggest starting paychecks.

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  Lew hopes to accelerate pace of Dodd-Frank work

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  May 21, 2013

  When SIFI designations are made, it could still be some time before the public is made aware, according to Lew.

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  Baucus, leading supporter of health reforms, to retire

  By Donna Cassata  |  April 23, 2013

  Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful Senate Finance chairman who steered PPACA into law, has decided to retire.

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  Hawaii forms public LTCI study bill conference committee

  By Allison Bell  |  April 17, 2013

  Some want the state to set up a limited-benefit long-term care benefits program.

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  NIMA offering associate membership to states at no cost

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  April 9, 2013

  Some states have expressed interest, but will it catch on? Time will tell.

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  Head of Senate banking to retire

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  March 26, 2013

  Johnson's decision establishes former Gov. Mike Rounds, a Republican and an insurance agent, as the likely front-runner to succeed him.

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  GOP’s ‘no’ on Medicaid becomes ‘Let’s make a deal’

  By David A. Lieb  |  March 25, 2013

  A new "no, but ..." approach is spreading among GOP states, in which officials are floating alternatives to PPACA.

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  South Dakota Senate tables LTC study bill

  By Allison Bell  |  March 5, 2013

  Sponsors wanted a panel to think about options proposed in a 2007 study.

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  The darkness within

  By Bill Coffin  |  February 27, 2013

  As the nation asks what can be done about a recent rash of mass shootings, the health insurance industry is quietly looking the other way.