The new medical insurance laws extend the length of COBRA Coverage and allow parents to carry their dependants for company health insurance plans. As an employer one needs to be self insured with benefits offered through insurance companies. A self insured employer pays claims with its fund and assumes this at his own risk. There are large employers and unions which access to such great communities with stringent laws being placed on insured plans in state insurance laws. This new statue increases the period of coverage with upto 36 months for workers who have health insurance benefits. This length of coverage depends on why such benefits have been lost out. As per the coverage of federal COBRA there are various exception to this rule. The workers who have lost health insurance can get benefited from COBRA coverage up to 2 years. Even if the employer works for companies with 20 or more employees this group would cover federal laws making them eligible for 18 months of COBRA health insu...