Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Hot (and Not) List
By David PortSales of LTCI, annuities and life insurance are good, but not great. Yet carriers are still devising new twists on their offerings.
January 31, 2012
IMCA Speaker Rejects Investor Objections to Buying EquitiesMany of the reasons cited by investors for not buying equities, generally, and U.S. stocks, in particular, are not justified by the facts, says a speaker at the IMCA Conference.
January 31, 2012
The Coming Tech-Led Boom (Wall Street Journal)The United States stands on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival those of the past century.
January 31, 2012
Michigan Lawmaker Introduces LTCI Rate Change BillHouse Bill 5295 would cap LTCI increases at the rate of overall health care inflation.
January 31, 2012
AG 38 Comment Letters: Let PBR Fly, Be Careful of Tax IssuesLife insurers do assert that state laws that wouldnt appear to prohibit the use of principles-based reserving on previously issued policies, as long as it is with the commissioners approval, key insurers told the NAIC.
January 30, 2012
Let’s Not Be SearsWhat the life insurance business can learn from the once-great retailer's downfall.
January 30, 2012
MIB Life Index: Small VictoryAfter years of negative figures, life insurance application activity appears to have actually risen by a miniscule amount in 2011.
January 30, 2012
Return Mail: A Growing Liability for the Long-Term Care Insurance IndustryDirect costs from mail that comes back average $3 apiece; the total impact could be as high as $50 each.