Tag: Insurance Commissioner

Colorado insurance commissioner points finger at Trump administration for massive rate hikes

Marc
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Marguerite Salazar says that uncertainty generated by the president led to the 27 percent rate hike requests. Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar’s department received requests for 27 percent rate hikes in the individual market and 7.3 percent for small group. The commissioner is not happy and blames the Trump administration for the uncertainty they’ve created within the market. Salazar said the games played by the Trump administration have caused the health insurance market to become unstable. The result of these actions, said the Colorado insurance commissioner, was huge 2018 rate…

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Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jacqueline K. Cunningham to retire this year

H. Cutner
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After three decades serving at the Bureau of Insurance, Cunningham announced her retirement. Jacqueline K. Cunningham, Virginia insurance commissioner, announced her intention to retire at the end of the year. She has been working with the State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance for a total of thirty years. Cunningham was first appointed to the Virginia Commission as insurance commissioner in 2011. She began her post as the thirteenth Virginia insurance commissioner on January 1, 2011. That said, she was first hired by the Bureau of Insurance in 1981. Her first…

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California insurance commissioner candidates take aim at Trump in campaigns

H. Cutner

In the race for the top spot in the state’s Insurance Department, the president has become a political target. The race for the 2018 California insurance commissioner position is heating up and President Trump has become one of the central campaign political targets. State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) has placed the spotlight on Trump and his policies. Lara placed the focus of his first ad running for California insurance commissioner on a depiction of Trump as being anti-female, anti-immigration, anti-healthcare and a denier of climate change. He called for…

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New Kentucky Insurance Commissioner steps up to head her department

Logan B.
kentucky insurance exchange

Nancy G. Atkins has been the deputy commissioner and has now been appointed to the top spot. The new Kentucky Insurance Commissioner has now been named as former Deputy Commissioner Nancy G. Atkins was appointed to the position. Atkins is now heading the state’s Insurance Department, where she already has extensive experience. The latest Kentucky Insurance Commissioner is no new entry to the industry or the types of duties she has taken on as her own. Atkins has been working within the insurance industry for 33 years. She has worked…

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Will the California insurance commissioner be state Sen. Ricardo Lara in 2018?

H. Cutner
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Lara announced that he will be running for the position next year on the heels of a state health care system proposal. Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) announced his intention to run for California insurance commissioner in 2018. This, only one month after submitting a proposal for a single-payer state health care system. This makes Lara one of four Democrats who have filed the documents necessary to start fundraising. These papers make it possible for possible California insurance commissioner candidates to begin fundraising for their campaigns. Lara’s announcement came with…

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