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(Photo by RIJASOLO/AFP via Getty Images) Go disclosed on Saturday, April 17, that he filed Senate Bill No. 2133 which proposed to amend Presidential Decree No. 1460, otherwise known as “The Insurance Code of 1978”, to institutionalize the regulations governing health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and provide affordable, improved and responsive health care to Filipinos. “The coronavirus disease has underscored to many Filipinos the need to invest in health care. As insurance markets bec...

Governor Esablishes New Mexico Health Care Affordability Fund, Eliminates Copays For Behavioral Health Services STATE News: SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Thursday signed into law Senate Bill 317, establishing the Health Care Affordability Fund, which is dedicated to reducing the cost of health insurance and medical expenses for working families. The bill also prohibits copays and other cost sharing for people with insurance who seek behavioral health services. “The pandemic has hig...

Governor signs aid in dying bill Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) Apr. 8—In a legislative session full of contentious proposals from more progressive lawmakers — such as legalizing cannabis and repealing a decades-old abortion ban — perhaps none drew as much controversy as one that would give terminally ill patients the right to seek a doctors aid in dying. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 47, known as the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, whi...

Lujan Grisham signs aid-in-dying bill Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) Apr. 9—In a legislative session full of contentious proposals from more progressive lawmakers — such as legalizing cannabis and repealing a decades-old abortion ban — perhaps none drew as much controversy as one that would give terminally ill patients the right to seek a doctors aid in dying. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 47, known as the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act...

N.M. Gov. Grisham Establishes Health Care Affordability Fund, Eliminate Copays for Behavioral Health Services Targeted News Service (Press Releases) SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 9 -- Gov. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday signed into law Senate Bill 317, establishing the Health Care Affordability Fund, which is dedicated to reducing the cost of health insurance and medical expenses for working families. The bill also prohibits copays and other cost sharing for people with insurance who...

Federal Privacy Rules Must Get “Data Broker” Definitions Right The California capital building in Sacramento, CA. (jjkbach, https://www.flickr.com/photos/9067772@N07/567465036; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Corporate data collection is all over the headlines, between a recent Senate hearing on antitrust, the appointment of Tim Wu as the president’s special assistant for technology and competition policy, the nomination of Lina Khan for Federal Trade ...

Detroit Medical News - March 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of telemedicine as a means of providing patients with access to safe and quality medical care through the use of technology. In order to expand and encourage the use of telemedicine, state and federal legislation has been enacted to relax various requirements for healthcare professionals utilizing telemedicine to provide care to patients. In addition, the standards for reimbursement...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In one of the first decisions in the country with respect to insurers obligations to their insureds for COVID-19 claims in the context of commercial liability coverage, one court has found a duty to defend under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy. In McDonalds Corp., et al. v. Austin Mutual Insurance Company, 1:20-cv-05057, the federal district court held that a claim for injunctive...

Florida Regulator to Hold Hearing for Proposed Citizens’ Rate Increases March 12, 2021 The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will conduct a rate hearing on Monday, March 15 on proposed rate increases from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The hearing will be held virtually at 9 am EST and will include testimony and public comment on the insurer’s proposed rate filings. The Citizens Board of Governors approved 2021 rate recommendations in January that...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Thomas Guastello v. AIG Specialty Insurance Company, — Cal.Rptr.3d –, 2021 WL 650878 (Cal. Ct. App., Feb. 19, 2021), Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal, Case No. G057714. Various stakeholders in the Pointe Monarch housing development in Dana Point, California, accused subcontractor C.W. Poss Inc. (“Poss”) of negligently designing and constructing retaining walls.  One such party, Thomas Guastello, sued Poss for damage ...