Questions arise over fairness of city's insurance replacement plan

Leaders of the New Albany police and fire unions stated Wednesday that a replacement insurence plan being offered by the city for its employees is a violation of their contracts with the city. The plan through Humana -- separate from the Health Savings Account, or HSA, option also being tendered by the city -- resulted in a 1.1 percent premium increase for participants. To keep the up from costs down, out-of-pocket expenses including deductibles were raised as initially the premium hike was larger