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Roughly 500 jobs will be lost when the Fort Knox human resources department is scaled back to save costs. .

Two Detroit pension boards have filed a federal lawsuit over Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s new law that gives emergency managers control over employee pensions.

For the second time this year, Blue Shield of California is facing scrutiny from a state regulator on double-digit rate hikes for individual health insurance policyholders.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered state agencies to recover millions of dollars in salary and travel advances that were given to state workers but never repaid.

Kansas legislators are beginning work next week on the final version of a bill dealing the long-term funding problems of the pension system for teachers and government workers.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company released Wednesday its new Group Medical Bridge 1.0 product, a group hospital confinement indemnity plan that pays benefits to help cover the out-of-pocket medical and non-medical expenses associated with a covered hospital stay.

John Hancock Financial announced Wednesday the results of its 2011 cost of care study, which found that long-term care (LTC) costs have continued to increase, but not as much as other goods and services.

A group of eight moderate House Democrats unveiled a proposal Tuesday to reform the state's workers' compensation system, keeping the thorny issue of settlements but making several changes to a broader Senate measure.