Covered California announced that 418,052 people had newly selected a health plan for 2020 during the most recent open-enrollment period. The total is more than 122,000, or 41 percent, higher than last year’s figure of […]
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Senator Lena Gonzalez (D – Long Beach) and Equality California recently announced the Equal Insurance HIV Act, Senate Bill 961. If enacted, the bill would extend anti-discrimination protections in life […]
USA Today has covered yet another reason why agents want to tear their hair out (and another reason why insurance carriers aren’t winning popularity contests): retrospective denial. In a nutshell: people are increasingly getting preauthorizations, […]
In a week that had a lot of interesting things happen, perhaps one of the most for us was a voicemail left by Thomas F. Allow me to paraphrase here. Mr. F. called to tell […]
The California Department of Insurance will now make it simpler for some people with a cannabis-related conviction to become a licensed insurance agent of broker. Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced CDI will use its discretion in […]
A new survey by Covered California shows 56 percent of uninsured Californians are unaware that California requires its residents to have health care coverage in 2020 or face a tax penalty. Furthermore, the survey […]
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