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LAAHU Small Group Carrier Panel Attracts 100+
The LAAHU Small Group Carrier panel on Oct. 17 at the Skirball attracted a committed group of insurance pros — including the three pictured above: Tamar Arouchian, regional sales executive for Covered...
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What Do the Stars Hold for You?
This is the headline from a story in this week’s New Yorker magazine: “Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty: Millennials who see no contradiction between using astrology and believing in science are...
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Have a Broker Tech Idea? Apply Now for Funding and Mentorship
Got some great tech ideas based on the insurance agent/broker experience? BrokerTech Ventures, a consortium of insurance industry companies, wants to hear from you. Propose your idea and, if your...
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What Impeachment?
We know that a lot of people are glued to the impeachment trial coverage, but let’s talk about insurance! It’s more fun! HEALTH NextGen Leading the Way Health and Medicare leads company NextGen Leads...
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LTC Insolvency Hitting Policyholders Hard
Cal Broker contributor Bonnie Burns from California Health Advocates sent us the following info. We think it’s worth passing along… In March of 2017 a long-term care insurance company was declared...
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We’re Grateful for SCAN’s Work This Thanksgiving!
A very special thank you goes out to our friends at SCAN Health Plan. In keeping with a 27-year tradition, the health plan will deliver more than 2,100 turkey dinners with all the trimmings to senior...
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Hang In There!
We know you’re slammed right now. So we’re keeping it short (and we’re showing you an adorable kitten) HEALTH Aflac Study: Employees Would Rather Risk Life Than Research Benefits Employees really,...
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CBO: Pelosi’s Drug Bill Could Save U.S. Billions. Not Everyone Happy, Of Course.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis this week of a bill introduced by California’s Nancy Pelosi. CBO’s analysis of House Speaker Pelosi’s bill that would let...
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So What Else is Happening in Washington?
ThinkAdvisor reported that Sen. Lamar Alexander’s new spending bill — the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020″ bill — leaves out the health care market transparency provisions from S. 1895, the...
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Happiest New Year!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thanks for your loyal support. Everyone here at Cal Broker looks forward to a 2020 full of information, education and community building! THINGS WE LOVE 2020 Insurance Predictions If...
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2020 Brings New Pet Insurance Law in California
Hope your 2020 is off to a great start. Did you know there’s a new pet insurance law in California? Yep. This just in from CDI (BTW, Happy New Year Commissioner Lara): Assembly Bill 1535 is a new law...
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Covered California’s open enrollment runs through Jan. 31; Many people need...
A new survey by Covered California shows 56 percent of uninsured Californians are unaware that California requires its residents to have health care coverage in 2020 or face a tax penalty....
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MLK Parade Includes Insurance Industry
Claudie Kiti Bustamante, regional field manager at Covered California, Tiffany Q. Nguyen, Los Angeles regional field representative and a bunch of agents showed up in force to support Covered...
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Cannabis Convictions Likely Won’t Prevent Someone from Becoming a California...
The California Department of Insurance will now make it simpler for some people with a cannabis-related conviction to become a licensed insurance agent of broker. Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced...
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Professional Heartbreak Is Real
In a week that had a lot of interesting things happen, perhaps one of the most for us was a voicemail left by Thomas F. Allow me to paraphrase here. Mr. F. called to tell us that he wanted to be taken...
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‘This is not a guarantee of payment’
USA Today has covered yet another reason why agents want to tear their hair out (and another reason why insurance carriers aren’t winning popularity contests): retrospective denial. In a nutshell:...
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Equal Insurance HIV Act Announced; California Bill Aims to End Life and...
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Senator Lena Gonzalez (D – Long Beach) and Equality California recently announced the Equal Insurance HIV Act, Senate Bill 961. If enacted, the bill...
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Covered Cal Says New Policies Worked
Covered California announced that 418,052 people had newly selected a health plan for 2020 during the most recent open-enrollment period. The total is more than 122,000, or 41 percent, higher than...
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Legislative News
Recently Governor Gavin Newsom introduced California’s 2020-2021 proposed budget and a central issue is the inclusion of Medicare for All in California with more that $80 million in Medi-Cal funding...
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LAAHU Issues Statement on Upcoming Keynote for AdapTech Symposium
At this point, strangely, we have little to add to the coronavirus or the Bernie/Biden conversation. So we’ll just mention that organizers for the April 22 Los Angeles Association of Health...
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