Aetna Inc. has agreed to increase rates for 94,000 California small group plan enrollees just 1.1%, rather than 4%.

Disability insurers seem to be making more use of guaranteed standard issue (GSI) programs at the worksite.

The Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) says two new exposure drafts could give the public more information about how state and local government pension plans are really doing.

The biggest news emerging from the saga of the federal mini med annual benefit limit waiver program may be just how many U.S. residents have mini med coverage.

Aetna Inc. now has permission from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to resume selling Medicare plans.

Members of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans see employers paying more attention to the effects of the Affordable Care Act, but, at this point, few see the act causing employers to eliminate health benefits.

The Exchanges Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has approved a draft white paper that compares the roles navigators and producers might play in a new system of health insurance exchanges.

Benefits groups fear conflicts in federal swaps regulations could accidentally make all swaps transactions involving swaps dealers and retirement plans illegal.