Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
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By Staff WriterJohn Hancock Annuities says it sees consumer interest in purchasing power inflation protection as well as in principal protection.
September 09, 2011
NAIC Panel Mulls Liquidity Disclosure ModelThe Statutory Accounting Principles Working Group is working on a disclosure template that could help regulators find out when an insurer may be about to face a cash crunch.
September 09, 2011
Permanent Life Insurance: A Win-Win ProductSome call it the herd mentality, that thing that led to the economic roller coaster of the past several years.
September 09, 2011
PPACA: HHS Asks States to Help Think About Section 1331 PlansSome states could hire health insurers to offer a new type of health plan - the Section 1331 Basic Health Program plan -- to moderate-income individuals.
September 09, 2011
Long-term Care Solutions that Offer StabilityThere has been a lot of upheaval recently in the stand-alone long-term care (LTC) market.
September 09, 2011
Economist: Hospital, Payer Consolidation Hurting MarketDrops in the number of major hospitals and major health insurers seem to contributing to increases in the cost of health coverage, Martin Gaynor told lawmakers today.
September 09, 2011
Personnel Changes: Odgers Berndtson, ASPPA, Lincoln, MassMutual, Symetra, AmerigroupOdgers Berndtson, an executive search firm, says Pat Corey and Paul Hanson have become partners in its Chicago office.
September 09, 2011
Data: Honest Women, Sad Workers, TPA Costs,Working women may be more honest than working men about how little they know about their life insurance coverage and their life insurance needs.