The waiver will hold the current ratio of 65 percent until 2013 for Maine insurers who offer products to the individual insurance market. The waiver applies only to these individual market products.
Maine’s Insurance Superintendent requested the waiver after Megalife, one of just three insurers that offer individual insurance products in the state, suggested it would pull out of the market if the ratio was enforced. If Megalife were to exit the market, approximately 14,000 residents would have been forced to seek new, likely more expensive coverage, according to the report.
Read the Bangor Daily News report on the medical loss ratio waiver.
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