Note: The data on unwinding renewal outcomes presented below were last updated on September 12, 2024; since most states have now completed the Medicaid unwinding, the information will not be updated again. As of September 12, 2024 and with nearly complete unwinding data for most states: Over 25 million people were disenrolled (31% of completed renewals) and over 56 million people had their coverage renewed (69% of completed renewals). Disenrollment rates varied across states from 57% in Montana to 12% in North Carolina, driven by a variety of factors including differences in renewal policies and procedures as well as eligibility…
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will put Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin in charge of helping homeowners get permits to rebuild after the California wildfires last January. Related: Trump Orders Federal Takeover of LA Wildfire Rebuilding Efforts …
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation announced the gubernatorial appointment of Christine Brown as deputy commissioner of its captive insurance division. Brown has served in an acting capacity since the start of the year. Brown joined the captive insurance division in 2003 as an examiner, with numerous promotions throughout the years until 2022, when she became the division director. In addition to her work at DFR, since 2018, she has served as principal staff to the chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Risk Retention Group Task Force. Before joining the state government, she worked as an auditor at…
The Host The actions of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are having ramifications far beyond immigration. Medical groups say that ICE agents in health facilities in Minneapolis and other cities are imperiling patient care, while in Washington, the backlash from a second fatal shooting by agents in Minnesota has stalled action on an eleventh-hour suite of spending bills. Meanwhile, anti-abortion groups remain unhappy with the Trump administration over what they see as its reluctance to scale back the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Maya Goldman of Axios, Alice…
Integral ILS Ltd. is now aiming to secure up to $275 million of US named storm retrocession from its debut Windrose Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond, while the price guidance has been adjusted for each of the tranches of notes being offered, Artemis can report.Integral ILS became the latest specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager to seek hedging protection from the catastrophe bond market for its managed ILS investment funds earlier this month, when its debut cat bond began marketing. As ILS manager’s have grown their assets under management and so their portfolios of catastrophe reinsurance risk instruments, which Integral…
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed Vineyard Wind to resume work on its Massachusetts offshore wind project, which President Donald Trump’s administration halted along with four other projects last month due to national security concerns. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, is the latest of several recent legal setbacks for Trump’s anti-offshore wind policy. An Interior Department spokesperson said the agency had no comment on pending litigation. Vineyard Wind, a $4.5 billion joint venture between Spain’s Iberdrola and Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is the fourth project paused by…
The updated report introduces deeper profiles of Farmers, American Family, Auto Club Enterprises, Auto-Owners, and Sentry, among others. New figures track profit-adjusted premium growth, underwriting discipline, and reserve-to-loss ratios from 2014 to 2024, revealing which smaller players are scaling sustainably and which are quietly retreating.
Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Trump administration has negotiated deals with major Medicaid systems vendors that it says will save states hundreds of millions of dollars as they hustle to implement massive changes to the safety-net insurance program from the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” On Thursday, CMS officials shared a list of 10 companies that have agreed to provide IT services and products at low or no cost to states to help them stand up work requirements, a controversial policy tying Medicaid eligibility to work or…
The U.S. Department of Commerce is preparing to open a national artificial-intelligence center in San Francisco, putting it closer to firms at the center of some of the government’s most high-profile initiatives. In addition to the Bay Area, AI export officials will be based in cities across the U.S., according to a Commerce official, who asked not to be identified. The Trump administration is looking to increase the country’s edge in AI and defense, industries that are largely based in California. It also aims to exploit natural resources in the state to increase the nation’s energy independence and bolster its…
Data source: These findings are based on KFF analysis of the 2025 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS-ASEC). The CPS is a nationally representative U.S. household survey sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is the “primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the United States”. Identifying foreign-born workers from impacted countries in CPS-ASEC: Foreign-born workers are identified as those between ages 19 and 64 who report their citizenship group as either “foreign born, US cit by naturalization” or “foreign born, not a US citizen”. Those who further indicate their country…
For many of the nearly 28 years since the Tampa Bay Rays held their inaugural game in St. Petersburg’s domed stadium, they have been looking for a bigger, better deal. Tropicana Field’s location, across Tampa Bay from the much-larger population base in Tampa, attributed to low attendance through most of those years. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays began as the most recent of Major League Baseball’s expansion teams, along with the Arizona Diamondbacks. They eventually dropped Devil from the team’s name and have carved a fairly successful path as a small-market team despite a low payroll and poor attendance. Every…
Ethos, though, occupies a middle ground that today’s public investors are treating with more caution. It doesn’t operate as a classic life insurer, taking most of the risk onto its own balance sheet. Instead, it functions as a digital marketplace and wholesaler, funneling applicants to a panel of carriers using its proprietary underwriting and distribution platform.
The clock is ticking on the National Flood Insurance Program—again. The NFIP is part of the federal funding package, which is set to expire at the end of Jan. 30. Unless Congress compromises on several issues, namely funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the NFIP will be among a group of agencies set to lapse. A lapse would mean no new federal flood insurance policies sold or renewed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), administrator of NFIP, will still make payments for claims using available funds. NFIP was reauthorized until the end of this month when federal lawmakers ended…