1.   Private motor business remains very competitive but it has been necessary to apply further selective premium increases.

2.   The premium increase was not included in the House version of the spending bill that is now the subject of negotiations.

3.   Equation says that the percentage forward premium increases with the US nominal interest rate and decreases with the UK nominal interest rate.

4.   An analysis released in February by the nonpartisan Mathematica Policy Research Inc. found that premium increases in California had likewise been small.

5.   Another area of disagreement involved the amount of a new premium increase needed to pay for home health costs.

6.   Average health care costs rise even more for the remaining sicker, older subscribers, triggering another round of premium increases.

7.   - Insurance premium increases were fueled by higher spending for prescription drugs.

8.   A mandatory increase in reserve requirements for other HMOs, Harvard-Pilgrim, presumably would require premium increases sufficient to return Harvard Pilgrim to good health.

9.   After Clinton vetoed the plan last year, the premium increase was dropped from the most recent GOP plan.

10.   After years of little or no price hikes, employers are seeing premium increases in the double digits.