State employee health insurance premiums to rise 4.1%

Most state employees will see an increase in what they pay for their health insurance next year, the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management says, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. With the premiums that insurers charge the state for coverage rising an average of 4.1% next year, the state will ask some employees to kick in between $1 and $11 a month more as their share of the cost.