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Correia Construction has been charged with failing to provide an employee with health insurance. The company’s CEO, Dennis Correia, appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning on behalf of the firm to face two charges related to a worker’s health in...

The cost of healthcare in Bermuda is one of the highest in the world relative to economic output, according to the latest figures. The National Health Accounts Report 2013 also indicates a rising tide of uninsured Bermudians. And although Bermuda spe...

Health insurance premiums continue to rise well above the rate of inflation, according to the latest figures. The Consumer Price Index for April shows that, while prices across all sectors rose by just 1.9 percent since April 2013, the cost of health...

After Fidelity Senior Manager in Finance Angeline Mahwendepi had a baby, she started running to stay fit. She ran three times a week thinking that was enough to keep her fit and healthy. The trouble was that when she wasn’t running, she was quite ina...

The use of generic drugs could cut the cost of healthcare in Bermuda, an insurance company said. Naz Farrow, chief operating officer for health with the Colonial insurance group, said: “Overall, the generics are less expensive than the brand. “In ord...

Bermuda’s national health care issues are indeed numerous (eg, access, pricing, coverage, funding etc) and one of the Island’s biggest fiscal drains. Rapidly rising healthcare costs undermine the all-important confidence of small and medium-sized bus...

Freisenbruch-Meyer Insurance Services Ltd (FMIS) says it will no longer provide individual and group health insurance. However, their health insurance customers need not experience a lapse in coverage, and there has been no loss of jobs, the company ...

Government has agreed to pay out on $15 million worth of rejected health insurance claims after receiving a wave of calls from panicked seniors. Health Minister Pat Gordon-Pamplin told The Royal Gazette that rumours of a cut to the subsidy for aged c...

Employees across the Island may discover their pay packets shrinking in the coming months as health insurance increases of as much as 20 percent kick in. Most insurance companies are having to increase their fees to cover increases in Bermuda Hospita...

BF&M says earnings are being impacted by soaring health costs, including a spike in the cost of cancer treatment. President and CEO John Wight said the insurance company basically has seen a reduction in the number of lives covered but increasing sev...

Endurance Specialty Holdings last night reported a year-end net income of $92.1 million and easily beat the expectations of analysts on Wall Street. The gain compares with a Q1 2012 net income of $74.4 million. Bermuda re/insurer reported an operatin...