U.S. life insurers may have received fewer requests for individual coverage in December 2006.
The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says U.S. life insurers checked 6.5% fewer individually underwritten life insurance applications in December 2006 than they checked in December 2005, and 3.8% fewer individual applications in all of 2006 than they checked in 2005.
Year-to-year activity comparisons increased in January and February but started falling in March.
The MIB activity index has fallen during most months during the past 3 years.