Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Sammons Preps Launch of Variable Annuity
By Maria WoodNot everyone is leaving the VA business. Sammons Retirement Solutions plans to offer a variable annuity that touts the tax deferral benefits of the product.
January 05, 2012
Life Insurance Trends to Watch in 2012From hot products to unique opportunities, here's what life insurance producers should watch for in the year ahead.
January 05, 2012
Life Insurance Trends to Watch in 2012From hot products to unique opportunities, here's what life insurance producers should watch for in the year ahead.
January 04, 2012
State vs. Federal, Round ThreeFollowing a FIO conference on the nature of insurance regulation, and news of legislation aiming to strip federal offices of their power to regulate insurers, the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) said on December 14 that progress has been slow in making the state regulatory system uniform across all...
January 04, 2012
State vs. Federal, Round OneInsurance representatives on December 9 agreed at a Washington conference that the new Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is an important single point of contact at the federal level on insurance issues, especially international ones.
January 04, 2012
Sun Life to Discontinue VA and Individual Life Sales in U.S.A Canada-based life insurer is exiting the variable annuities and individual life products markets in the U.S. not quite a week after ING announced it would be taking a huge charge as it too exited the U.S. variable annuities market.
January 04, 2012
Life Insurers Face Double Whammy in New YorkLife insurers based in New York have already made $52.6 million in payments to 7,934 beneficiaries as a result of the New York Department of Financial Services probe of insurer unclaimed property practices.
January 04, 2012
The Year AheadAs the U.S. economy continues its slow-growth recovery, market-watchers remain cautiously optimistic that life insurance professionals and product manufacturers can preserve the sales gains achieved in 2011.