During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee, vowed to protect health insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions while also doubling ...

A captive insurance company ("captive") is an insurance company that is created by the parent organization to underwrite the insurance needs of its operating affiliates. An oil company might, for ...

Secretary of State David Scanlan has come out against legislation that would permit the state’s four risk management pools, which provide health, property or casualty insurance for governmental units, ...

? Previously: As part of a settlement agreement in September, Clark County said two men wrongfully convicted of a 1993 rape could sue the Washington Counties Risk Pool for up to $24 million. The risk ...

A lot of attention has been paid to the percent of mostly healthy adults age 18 to 34 enrolled in the federal and state health insurance exchanges to date. Some believe that placing such emphasis on ...

Edmund F. Haislmaier is an expert in health care policy and markets at The Heritage Foundation. He is frequently asked to assist federal and state lawmakers in designing and drafting health reform ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. The federally funded high-risk health insurance pool, one of the ...

A "risk pool" is a device used by captive insurance companies to pool their risk with other, like captives, to spread their risk around and also sometimes (usually in the case with smaller captives) ...

Paula Jarzabkowski can remember watching her mother scoop mud from the second storey of people’s homes after the devastating 1974 Brisbane floods. “For me, insurance isn’t just some product that ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Some Republicans looking to scrap the Affordable Care Act say monthly health insurance premiums need to be lower for the individuals who have to buy insurance on their own. One way to do that, GOP ...

As House Republicans try to negotiate an agreement on the design of Obamacare repeal and replace legislation, specific elements are often referenced using shorthand terminology. While understandable, ...