Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Dodd-Frank: Employers Pan Swap Counterparty Aid
By Allison BellEmployee benefit plans want the right to waive a proposed rule that would require swap counterparties to give benefit plans extra scrutiny and advice.
September 08, 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.
September 08, 2011
Larsen, Clarke join Tailor Made groupLars Larsen and Lisa Clarke, both of Heritage Financial North in Burlingame, Calif., have accepted invitations to join Creative Marketing's Tailor Made group. The elite group is made up of top-selling insurance and financial professionals nationwide who have met certain membership criteria. For more information, click the headline.
September 08, 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 08, 2011
PIMCO’s Gross: Fed Action ‘Destroyed’ Credit Creation; Obama Needs to Be BoldEchoing sentiments he made this week, Bill Gross said Thursday that QE by the Fed 'destroyed' credit creation, and that he'd like to "see something bold" from the president in his speech Thursday night.
September 07, 2011
PPACA: Employers Ask Feds to Rethink Comparative Effectiveness Research FeeThe ERISA Industry Committee - an employer group - is asking the Internal Revenue Service to make administration of the new comparative effectiveness research fee as simple as possible.
September 07, 2011
New York Files Executive Life N.Y. Liquidation PlanThe New York Liquidation Bureau has completed a plan that could lead to payment reductions for about 16% of the consumers who are getting payments linked to Executive Life Insurance Company of New York.
September 07, 2011
Oliver Wyman Analyzes the UninsuredAbout 75% of uninsured U.S. residents could end up buying health coverage in 2014, consultants say.