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On March 11, 2011, the Nebraska Department of Insurance issued a Notice as to whether an insurer can collect fees on behalf of an insurance consultant from a new insured if the insurance business is placed by an insurance consultant. The Notice addressed the issue whether or not the insurer could hold the fees for eventual disbursement to the insurance consultant.

Starting January 1, 2016, the Affordable Care Act amends the size of the small group health insurance market from 2-50 to 1-100. However, the Obama Administration has indicated that those fully insured groups that have 51-100 insureds may be allowed to keep their policies and remain in the large group market via a transitional policy akin to the transitional policies that were allowed in the small group market. The Department previously discussed the small group transitional policies in a notice, “Transitional Policies Revised,” issued April 30, 2014.

AGENCY RENEWAL PROCESS

Agency licenses will expire April 30, 2015.

All agency renewals are available online at www.nipr.com.

Agencies may also be renewed by returning the following to the Department no later than March 15, 2015:

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To: All Interested Parties

Recently enacted Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-3805(3) (2010) and § 44-7,105 (2012) prevent prepaid dental service plans, insurance policies, self-funded employee benefit plans, and prepaid limited health organization plans from dictating the price of dental services that they do not cover. Sections 44-3805 and 44- 7,105 do not provide a definition of the term “covered service.” Insurance and dental professionals implementing § 44-3805 and § 44-7,105 have discovered that “covered service” is subject to two interpretations.

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