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An initiative to name and shame employers who fail to maintain their health insurance has already caused some employers to reactivate their policies. The Health Insurance Act 1970 requires employers to maintain an active health insurance policy for a...

Police benefits allowing 100 per cent coverage of health insurance should be reviewed, Shadow National Security Minister Walter Roban said, while affirming the Opposition’s support for the service. “If the Bermuda Government is serious about cutting ...

The Bermuda Health Council will this week begin publishing the identities of employers who do not have an active health insurance policy. Starting on Friday, companies who are not verified as possessing a policy will be listed on their website. Jenn...

Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment, and the Bermuda Health Council have defended the decision to increase health premiums after groups expressed a series of concerns. While a group of organisations have called for the Be...

Delinquent employers who shirk paying health insurance for their staff can now be named in public. The Health Insurance Amendment Act 2015 has been approved by the Senate with Opposition support, although the Progressive Labour Party’s Diallo Rabain ...

A group of charities has joined forces to call for a healthcare safety net, motivated by their concern about Government’s lack of consultation with the community on how to best address the medical needs of Bermudians. Speaking on the group’s behalf, ...

As the cost of health insurance goes up and up, newcomer MoonGate Insurance Group aims to fill the service gaps for locals on the most basic packages. Its latest step, using an affiliate company in the United States, has resulted in MoonGate adding a...

The first rule of politics is generally understood to mean respecting your voters. But recently unveiled legislation proposing changes to insurance coverage for mammograms could only have reinforced the increasingly widespread view that Parliament i...

The detail, Mr Editor, is where you find the devil — so often followed by discord, division and disagreement when people don’t like what they eventually discover in the fine print. Legislation can be like that if you are not careful. The Health Insu...

Employers who break the law in failing to cover their staff’s health insurance will soon be named by the Bermuda Health Council. Every month, hundreds of people are found to have no health insurance — and the council has only been able to reinstate h...

In my opinion health insurance is probably one of the most misunderstood forms of insurance and often an easy target for unfair criticism. Some people see ObamaCare as a result of President Obama accusing the health industry in the USA of applying ex...

A construction firm has been fined for not providing a worker with health insurance — with the magistrate lamenting the low penalties available under the law. Dennis Correia, appearing on behalf of Correia Construction, pleaded guilty yesterday to fa...