Tag: Insurance Commissioner
Insurance Commissioner’s Debate — WDEL
WDEL is hosting a debate between the Democratic candidates for Insurance Commissioner TODAY that you can tune into at 5:30. The debate lasts for an hour and you can listen online at WDEL.com or on the radio at 1150AM.
Campaign Make-believe
Got to love elected officials who lie about who’s supporting their re-election effort.
Campaign Debts – Who’s Responsible for Paying Them Off?
Many politicians rack up campaign debts, especially when running against well-healed opponents. Some even loan huge sums to their campaigns. My question is, when a candidate mortgages their home or empties their retirement account, possibly jeopardizing the financial future of their family, do they have an obligation to do everything they can to repay that […]
Campaign Finance Reports – KWS Edition
End of year campaign finance reports were due by January 20, 2012, and of course, KWS filed hers late. It makes for some interesting reading.
It seems that a number of individuals and law firms with an interest in the captive insurance industry like KWS enough to give her money. Now mind you, captive insurance does nothing for the consumer. It isn’t to benefit Delaware consumers; captive insurance is insurance for corporations. It isn’t to benefit our state, and, despite her claims to the contrary, the captive bureau does not fill the state’s coffers. So why does KWS push the captive bureau so hard? Because it makes her donors (lawyers and law firms who work in captive insurance) more money. And in turn, they kick-back money to her campaign.
Mitch Crane Speaks Out on BCBSD-Highmark
Mitch Crane, the progressive Democratic candidate for Insurance Commissioner, issued a press release yesterday regarding KWS’s turning her back once again on the people of Delaware by approving the merger of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware and Highmark. “This is a bad decision for Delaware. Once again this Insurance Commissioner has put the interests […]
Did KWS Go Over to the Dark Side? – UPDATED
It seems as though KWS, the incumbent “Democratic” Insurance Commissioner has hired herself a republican to run her re-election campaign. Well, he was a registered republican up until December 12, 2011.
BCBSD vs. Delaware Kids
Yesterday’s NJ reported on the issues to be discussed in a hearing held last night in front of the Insurance Commissioner on a rate application that would attempt to charge Delaware kids more for subsidized insurance than they charge (via Highmark) in Pennsylvania. The bottom line here is that BCBSD/Highmark is trying to weasel out of a commitment required by law to cover these families in the way that Highmark covers families in Pennsylvania. It looks to me that they agreed to this when their merger was still not yet approved and now that it looks like a done deal they want to back out of it.
Primary for Insurance Commissioner
Mitch Crane, former Acting Director of Consumer Services and Investigations under Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, filed paperwork today that will enable him to raise money for the Democratic nomination for Insurance Commissioner in next year’s election. A formal campaign announcement will be made in January. Crane, who lives in Lewes, is a lawyer and […]
Waivers So That Brokers Can Get Paid
Today’s NJ has a spectacular bit of reporting on the effort by the Insurance Commissioner to request waivers for two insurance firms in Delaware.
IC’s Office Still Losing Money
The Insurance Commissioner’s captive insurance initiative is still losing money but it’s losing less than it used to.
My Interview With Karen Weldin Stewart Post-Hearing
I ask KWS about the resignation of her controller yesterday. I also ask about contractors v. state employees. I probably shouldn’t have helped her find the answers, but let me know what you think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWFqoJXlukw[/youtube]
Live Video of the KWS Hearing
This may or may not work, but hopefully there will be a live stream of the hearing for Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart. My fingers are crossed…
KWS Pre-Game Show
This afternoon is the hearing in Dover about the Insurance Commissioner’s job performance. The hearing is supposed to cover the denial of coverage for stress tests for Delaware residents and the Captive Insurance Bureau but I imagine a lot of issues will arise in the hearing. I know that our very own liberalgeek plans on […]
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