Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
NCOIL Unclaimed Property Model Law Mandates Use of Death Master File
By Arthur D. PostalThe National Conference of Insurance Legislators passed on Sunday a resolution supporting a model law that would, among other things, require insurers to use the Social Security Death Master File when dealing with unclaimed assets.
November 20, 2011
The New GrassrootsAfter nearly two months of camping out in lower Manhattans Zuccotti Park, the Occupy Wall Street protesters were finally forced out on orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
November 20, 2011
The Unknown UnknownsSecuritization, or the pooling of contractual debt (such as mortgages) into bonds, then reselling the bonds to investors (like big pension funds) has received intense scrutiny from regulators in recent years because of the central role the financing technique played in the near-catastrophic credit crisis of 2007-2009.
November 20, 2011
Give Me StabilityGraduating from college and looking for a job can be a distressing experience.
November 20, 2011
Shining a Light on a Shadow Industry: Captive ReinsurersIt is not often that an industry development excites the collective imaginations of state insurance regulators, high-rolling investment bankers and Wall Street lawyers. But that is what has been happening in recent years as more life insurers establish special insurance subsidiaries, or captive reinsurers, and engage in complex financing transactions....
November 20, 2011
LTCI in the DoghouseLong-term care insurance (LTCI) issuers seem to have entered the astrological quadrant of cant get a break.
November 18, 2011
New York Life Increases LTCI SalesA large mutual insurer says its long-term care insurance (LTCI) production continues to grow.
November 18, 2011
BlackRock’s Fink, PIMCO’s Gross Sound Off on Economy, Occupy ProtestsLarry Fink of BlackRock and Bill Gross of PIMCO sat down on Thursday with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker for a conversation at an alumni event hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management. Both men are alums of the school, having graduated five years apart.