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The California Department of Insurance (CDI), established in 1868, is the agency charged with overseeing insurance regulations, enforcing statutes mandating consumer protections, educating consumers, and fostering the stability of insurance markets in California. The CDI has authority over how the insurance industry conducts business within ...
Insurance regulatory law is the body of statutory law, administrative regulations and jurisprudence that governs and regulates the insurance industry and those engaged in the business of insurance. Insurance regulatory law is primarily enforced through regulations, rules and directives by state insurance departments as authorized and directed ...
Two state-based health insurance regulators is unusual in the United States, and has led to various additional work to synchronize laws. [3] This dual regulation arose due for historical reasons, and when the DMHC was created in 2000, the California legislature requested a report on merging the health insurer responsibilities with the CDI. [4]
In California, half of all commercial health plans use copay accumulator adjustment policies, which prevent financial assistance from counting toward a patient’s deductible even though this ...
The staff consists of 1,230 authorized positions in fiscal year 2014–15. [22] Covered California receives no funding from state taxes; as of January 2014, it had received $1.1 billion in federal funds, but needed to be self-supporting by January 2015. [23] The estimated expenditures for personnel in fiscal year 2014-15 were $108 million. [22]
For example, increasing your deductible from $200 to $500 could reduce your collision and comprehensive coverage cost by 15% to 30%. Going to a $1,000 deductible could save you 40% or more ...
Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and ...
The California Insurance Equality Act (AB 2208) [1][2] is a state law that requires California insurance providers and managed care plans (HMOs) to provide coverage for registered domestic partners that is equal to spousal coverage. [3] The law complements the California Domestic Partnership Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 [4] (AB 205 ...