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.

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…

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…