Whether to delay increases in taxes that employers pay to Indiana’s unemployment insurance fund is becoming a
contentious issue in the General Assembly.
Whether to delay increases in taxes that employers pay to Indiana’s unemployment insurance fund is becoming a contentious
issue in the General Assembly.
Health insurer WellPoint is blaming the Great Recession and rising medical costs for its planned 39 percent rate increase
for some California customers of its Anthem Blue Cross plan. But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius isn’t
buying the explanation proffered in a letter delivered to her Thursday.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer says a shift in demographics and rising medical costs have led to its planned 39 percent
rate hike for some California customers.
Instead of focusing on standardized tests, the Indiana Growth Model will monitor individual students’ academic growth to measure
their progress and identify effective teaching methods, state public education officials say.
A judge has entered a preliminary not guilty plea for a former Indiana University basketball player charged in connection
with an ex-business partner’s multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
The wider deficit in December reflects a rebounding economy that is pushing up demand for imports.
Officials in Seymour are protesting the announced closing of an Indiana State Police post in their city.
Pharmacy giant CVS will pay $1.95 million and verify that all of its pharmacists are licensed in Indiana to settle a state
complaint that pharmacists with expired licenses dispensed prescriptions for several years at two of its drugstores.
Businesses slashed wholesale inventories sharply in December, a much weaker showing than expected and a troubling sign that
companies are still too pessimistic about the economy to begin restocking shelves.
Anthem has declined to say how many of its 800,000 individual policyholders in California are being affected by the hike.
But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanded specifics in a sternly worded letter.
After a week-long shutdown for the company to repair defective gas pedals, the factory near Princeton was back to “business
as usual” when its lines restarted on Monday.
The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M*A*S*H” to become the most-watched program in television history.
Just days after Friday’s heavy snowfall blanketed much of the state, the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm
watch from late Monday night through early Wednesday for all of Indiana.
WellPoint and other health insurers were profitable in 2009, but the lingering unemployment problem is dampening the outlook
for this year.
Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes at the sight of a TV spot pairing CBS late-night host David Letterman with longtime
NBC archrival Jay Leno, plus media magnate Oprah Winfrey.
The jobs can’t come soon enough for Connersville, where unemployment is at 13.8 percent.
Toyota said Sunday it will soon announce a plan for dealing with braking problems in its Prius hybrid amid reports that the
world’s largest automaker plans to issue a recall for the latest model of the vehicle in Japan.
January’s report offers hope that employers may start adding jobs soon. Excluding the beleaguered construction industry, the private sector as a whole added 63,000 positions.
The 39-year-old Leary was being held Friday in the Monroe County Jail in Bloomington on charges out of Allen County.
