Arkansas health insurance backlog creates issue with children’s coverage

October 20, 2015October 18, 2015 H. Cutner

Some parents in the state are struggling to obtain the plans they need to make sure their kids are covered. Parents are feeling a substantial headache from an Arkansas health insurance backlog that is making it difficult for them to be able to buy a plan that will cover their kids. Hundreds of thousands of people in the state are now sitting on a waiting list for their coverage approval. The waiting list is the result of a backlog with the Arkansas health insurance options such as ARKids, Medicaid, and…

Insurance policies may soon be available at IKEA

October 13, 2014October 11, 2014 G. Turner

The Swedish furniture company is rolling out trials of certain kinds of coverage in specific stores. IKEA Group, the furniture giant from Sweden, has taken its first steps into the selling insurance policies, after having rolled out a trial program of certain types of coverage product in its Swedish stores. Those insurance products will become available within the a couple of weeks, as a test of the market. The first insurance policies that were rolled out in a few select stores in Sweden by IKEA were child and pregnancy coverage.…