President Barack Obama’s budget chief isn’t sugarcoating his message to health insurance executives: the Medicare Advantage party is over.

In a March 4 story about life insurers, The Associated Press misstated the first name of the president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. His name...

The life insurance industry is weakening, and policy holders around the country are calling their agents to ask the same question: Is my policy safe?

Federal regulators will allow two large insurers to buy thrifts so they can qualify to receive money from the government’s financial rescue program.

Health insurance companies that serve the elderly and disabled in Medicare are realizing significantly higher profits than they anticipated, resulting in the companies...

The insurance industry embraced many of President-elect Barack Obama’s ideas for better health care coverage Wednesday, though it opposes a key piece of his plan...

A government plan mandating insurance coverage for all Americans could rake in revenue for commercial health insurers, but whether that revenue would trickle down to...

A government plan mandating insurance coverage for all Americans could rake in revenue for commercial health insurers, but whether that revenue would trickle down to...

The health insurance industry says it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers regardless of pre-existing medical...

Four insurance companies are asking the government to allow them to buy thrifts so they can qualify to receive federal money under the financial rescue program.

Two insurance companies have said they will not participate in the government’s rescue program to directly invest billions in financial companies.

Two insurance companies have said they will not participate in the government’s rescue program to directly invest billions in financial companies.

Medicare issued new rules Monday that restrict insurance agents’ contact with the elderly and disabled when selling prescription drug plans and more comprehensive...

Agents selling private health insurance plans to the elderly and disabled would be barred from cold-calling, door-to-door solicitations and pitching their products...

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its rating on MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group Inc. on Monday, saying it appears the troubled bond insurers...

Standard and Poor’s has affirmed its financial strength rating on MBIA and Ambac, two troubled bond insurers fighting to keep their top-notch ratings.S&P...

Lawmakers on Thursday reached for remedies to ease the financially strained bond industry, suggesting government intervention may be needed as the distress infects...

Natural calamities and the massive damage and disaster it entails are unavoidable. Nonetheless, we can reduce or even avoid the part of natural disaster that has the...

A major insurer of bonds was downgraded to “junk” status on Wednesday, a move that could potentially cost banks and local governments billions of...

A recent government audit raises concern that Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest Medicare insurers, has not done enough to eliminate misleading sales...