UnitedHealthcare will be the new health insurance carrier for St. Mary Parish School Board employees and retirees beginning Jan. 1. The company agreed to match the 2 percent reduction in premiums previously offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and to acquire reinsurance for individual claims of more than $200,000, school board Chief Financial Officer Alton Perry said Tuesday. The board had voted 7-3 with one abstention Thursday to hire UHC provided it met the 2 percent reduction and reinsurance requirements by Monday. Perry said by email Tuesday that UHC had agreed to those terms. Reinsurance is basically insurance for insurance ...