Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Most EU Nations Sign Pact
By Marlene Y. SatterGermany pushed through a treaty for the European Union on Monday that contains almost automatic sanctions for member countries that fail to control their budget deficits, with 25 out of 27 nations signing off on the document.
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.
January 30, 2012
Monster Worldwide Cautious on 2012 (Reuters)Online recruitment firm Monster Worldwide Inc forecast a weak start to the year and said it will cut jobs, as it does not expect the global job market to improve drastically in the near term.
January 30, 2012
Growth Accelerates, but U.S. Has Lots of Ground to Make Up (New York Times)Even with the pickup in output last quarter, the pace was below the average of economic expansions in the United States since World War II.