Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Unclaimed Property: Consumers Say They Communicate
By Staff WriterU.S. consumers are telling pollsters they tell life insurance policy beneficiaries about the policies.
September 07, 2011
Life Insurance: A Changing MarketAlong with LIMRA, the LIFE Foundation recently released a new study, the Life Insurance Barometer Study.
September 07, 2011
Nothing changes: History repeats, again!Suppose I told you there was a company with 16,000 stores, focused obsessively on low prices, that caused great unhappiness among many who longed to return to a simpler time, a time when mom-and-pop stores dotted downtowns across the United States.
September 07, 2011
IRS Goes Back To Drawing Board on Estate CostsThe Internal Revenue Service is scrapping proposed estate administration cost deduction rules it released in 2007.
September 06, 2011
Want to Build a CO-OP?An arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will hold an open teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday for people who want to start a new type of nonprofit health plan.
September 06, 2011
NAIC: Disability Valuation Table Project in PipelineAn American Academy of Actuaries work group could have a long-term disability insurance valuation table proposal ready for review by March 2012.
September 06, 2011
IRS Official: PPACA Ate Our 403(b) HomeworkEfforts to implement major new health care and financial services laws are getting in the way of an Internal Revenue Service initiative to update 403(b) retirement plan procedures.
September 06, 2011
California Set to Restrict RAA UseCalifornia has moved to keep life insurers from making retained asset accounts the default benefits payment mechanism.