Insurers to sell 'micro-insurance' policies.
Byline: LEE C. CHIPONGIAN Insurance Commission chief Evangeline Escobillo said insurance companies will introduce "micro-insurance" products for the low-income wage earners soon. The IC, said Escobillo, will issue new regulations by August for micro-insurance. She said affordable insurance products will allow more Filipinos access to...

EWEB workers consider strike.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard Eugene Water & Electric Board officials said they ended a four-hour bargaining session Wednesday with the expectation that union workers will go on strike next Tuesday. Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will vote tonight on whether to...

What's driving the downward trend in employer-sponsored health insurance?
Although the majority of Americans receive their health insurance through an employment-based health plan, that number is declining as health insurance premiums rise, the share of the premium that is passed on to employees rises, and fewer firms offer coverage to their workers (Fronstin 2003). The decline in employer-sponsored...

HEALTH PLANS.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard Faced with ever-rising health insurance premiums, Eugene car dealer Ron Pappel decided to see if he could save himself and his four employees money by switching from traditional managed-care type insurance to a high deductible plan with health savings accounts. ...

Insuring equality.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Oregon House of Representatives has spoken with admirable clarity in support of Oregonians who are struggling with mental illness, voting 59-1 on Saturday to require health insurers to provide mental health coverage on equal terms with coverage for physical illness. Credit...

Life insurers see bright outlook; PLIA bares program thrusts.
The outlook for the life insurance industry in 2006 is bright, according to Peter G. Coyiuto, newly-elected president of the Philippine Life Insurance Association (PLIA), the umbrella organization of 35 life insurance companies in the country. Serving on his second term after his presidency in 1999, Mr....

Coyiuto reelected PLIA president, bares industry priority program.
Peter G. Coyiuto, President and CEO of First Guarantee Life Assurance Co., Inc. (First Life), was recently elected for the second time as president of the Philippine Life Insurance Association (PLIA), the umbrella organization of 35 life insurance companies in the country. Achieving sustained growth for the...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Neocons know what's right In response to D.W. Larson (letters, Sept. 1): I cannot imagine what it must be like to be a conservative today. First of all, conservatives have to repress diversity while hating and protesting anyone who disagrees...

Low interest rate environment seen to shrink insurance profits.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL The current low interest rate regime is expected to shrink the profits of insurance firms, Philippine-American Life and General Insurance Co. (Philamlife) President and Chief Executive Officer Jose L. Cuisia Jr. said. Cuisia ascribed the low interest rate environment as the...

Grepalife sees 10% premium hike.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL Great Pacific Life Assurance Corporation (Grepalife), the insurance life provider of the Yuchengco Group of Companies, is confident it will surpass its 10 percent premium growth assumption for this year, largely due to improve and more efficient business operations. "A 10-percent...