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Agencies Rush COBRA Forms
By Staff WriterThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Employee Benefits Security Administration are hurrying to roll out an application needed to implement the new benefits continuation subsidy program.
May 04, 2009
Advisor Comp Is Taking A HitThe devastating decline in asset prices wrought by the credit crisis and a continuing economic contraction have not only up-ended the retirement plans of millions of baby boomers.
May 04, 2009
Early MarkersOne of the things that makes life really interesting (sometimes a little too interesting) is when expectations are upended.So, who would have guessed that Iowa ...
May 03, 2009
Feds Adopt NAIC Standard For MedigapThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a Medicare supplement model developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a national standard.
May 03, 2009
Fast Track Move For Health Reform Has Industry Up In ArmsLast week's scheduled Congressional action on budget reconciliation was a typical half-full, half-empty result for the life and health insurance industries.
May 03, 2009
Bring Back The I-WordIt's really a shame that so many insurance companies knocked themselves out in the 1990s by reinventing themselves as "financial services companies."
May 03, 2009
Some Practical Things That Advisors Should Know About COBRAWhen clients lose their medical coverage because an employer has financial problems, the clients often ask their insurance advisors for assistance.
May 03, 2009
Campaign Links To Awareness MonthGuardian Life Insurance Company of America is using May -- National Stroke Awareness Month -- to remind consumers of the importance of critical illness insurance.