Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law on Sept. 4 that redefined dependent status for state employees, stripping 170 domestic partners at the UA of their state health care benefits. The bill, H.B.

Domestic partner benefits are benefits that an employer voluntarily offers to an employee’s unmarried partner. An employee’s domestic partner may be of the same sex or the opposite sex. An employer ...

The plan is most attractive to employees with domestic partners who have no health care insurance or limited plans of their own. Otherwise, domestic partners with employer-sponsored plans are likely ...

Private employers are introducing domestic-partner health insurance benefits to gays at the rate of three companies a day, according to a study by the educational arm of a gay rights advocacy group.

State Corrections Sgt. Rachael Merry was looking forward to signing her partner and the woman’s daughter up for health insurance under a new provision for state workers that takes effect Friday. But ...

Starting this week, the University of Wyoming began offering health insurance vouchers to domestic partners of school faculty and employees — including same-sex partners. Though domestic partners ...

Sens. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) have introduced legislation that would permit unmarried federal employees to apply for health, dental and vision insurance, retirement and ...

In 1992, just one Fortune 500 company offered domestic partner health insurance benefits. Today, 253 of the 500 offer the same health benefits to employees who live with domestic partners that they do ...