Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
PPACA: CCIIO Fears Risk Adjustment Bugs
By Allison BellA flawed health insurance risk adjustment program could have strange, unintended consequences, such as pushing doctors to start by using insulin to control mild diabetes rather than by recommending that patients eat better.
September 15, 2011
SEC Head Defends Need for Funding IncreaseU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro has accused House Republicans of trying to cripple the agency by holding its budget flat and imposing burdensome cost-benefit analysis requirements.
September 15, 2011
NAIFA Meeting: Democrat Pans Tax Expenditure ChartFederal analysts made a mistake recently when they included the tax rules governing life insurance death benefits and the buildup of cash value inside permanent life policies on a list of deficit reduction targets, according to Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass.
September 15, 2011
Witnesses to Congress: Be Careful with Retirement AccountsLawmakers should think twice before meddling with 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts and other retirement savings programs, witnesses told the Senate Finance Committee today.
September 15, 2011
Tooley to head insurance solutions distribution at LincolnLincoln Financial Distributors, the wholesale distribution subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, has named Tom Tooley, CLU, ChFC, its head of insurance solutions distribution. For more information, click the headline.
September 15, 2011
LISA Sets Meeting ScheduleThe Life Insurance Settlement Association plans to present sessions on life settlement pricing risk, the status of life settlement funds, and institutional investors' outlook at an upcoming conference.
September 15, 2011
Personnel Changes: Hartford, MassMutual, American College, EisnerAmperHartford Financial Services Group Inc. has hired Michael Gregg to be head of strategic markets at its wealth management business.
September 15, 2011
Health-Care Law’s LTC Program Unsustainable, Republicans SayA group of congressional Republicans issued a report on Thursday claiming that a piece of President Barack Obamas health-care law calling for long-term care insurance, also known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, is financially insolvent.