The total net gain from operations at the biggest U.S. life insurers rose to $36 billion in the second quarter, up 31% from the total for the second quarter of 2008, according to the Highline Data Performance Monitor.
Highline, a unit of Summit Business Media L.L.C., Erlanger, Ky., the company that owns National Underwriter Life & Health, has based those figures on financial data from the top 100 life insurers.