Teresa Miller spoke at the Foxdale Village Retirement Community, urging people to understand their finances. Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller spoke to seniors at the Foxdale Village Retirement Community located in State College. Miller focused on the importance for consumers, especially seniors, to take the time to understand annuities. She said this was vital to enabling them to protect their retirement incomes. The insurance commissioner spoke about how people should be educating themselves about this important point. “Annuities are designed as long term investments to provide income over a period…
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Pennsylvania regulators make changes to health insurance proposals coming from insurers
Highmark will be overhauling the health insurance plans it offers in the state Highmark Inc., one of the largest providers of health insurance coverage in Pennsylvania, has announced that it will be making changes to the policies it offers in the state. The decision follows action taken by the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to reduce several of the rate increase proposals that came from the insurer this year. Highmark had sought to increase premiums for 2016 coverage, but state regulators have determined that rates did not need to be increased by…
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State has warned insurers not to practice price optimization as it is unfairly discriminatory Pennsylvania has joined seven other states in warning the insurance industry against practicing “price optimization,” a technique that insurers often use to raise premiums for those they deem unlikely to search for better deals. The Consumer Federation of America notes that this practice is unfair and illegal, as it often makes use of socio-economic information that insurers are banned from using to price coverage in some states. The organization suggests that this pricing practice is a…
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