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WASHINGTON — A couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to President Obama’s health care law. The case is a once-in-a-generation blockbuster, and the court underscored its importance by scheduling five and a half hours of oral arguments, the most in any case since ...

The former "Nader's Raider" who used California's initiative process to regulate auto insurance rates is headed back to the ballot. This time he's spoiling to take on health insurers. Harvey Rosenfield, the combative attorney and consumer advocate who wrote California's landmark Proposition 103 more than two decades ago, is ...

One of the most closely-watched aspects of the federal health-overhaul law is a provision that requires insurers to spend a set proportion of premium dollars on patients’ care and quality-improvement efforts  — 85% for large groups, or 80% for individual and small-group plans. If an insurer doesn’t hit the mark, ...

After more than a year of debate, state regulators Wednesday approved a resolution calling for changes to the healthcare reform law’s medical loss ratio provision. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) passed the measure 26-20, over strenuous objections from commissioners who said the process and the resolution itself ...

WASHINGTON—Employers' desire for certainty about the health care reform law will have to wait until at least sometime next year, when the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the law. The justices agreed last week to review a lawsuit challenging the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ...