Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Climate Change Endangers Insurance Industry: Ceres
By Marlene Y. SatterInsurers are failing to adequately plan for climate change risks, according to a report by Ceres, thus endangering not only the consumers and businesses that depend on them but also their own survival.
September 04, 2011
Under SiegeIn just a few short months, what began as a probe by California and Florida into the claims-paying procedures of life insurance companies has turned into a nationwide effort to shake loose any and all unclaimed death benefits that have accumulated.
September 04, 2011
Hit 'Em Where It HurtsOver the last year, I have read ample articles, white papers and studies chronicling the difficulty in selling individual life in the U.S. marketplace.
September 02, 2011
GAO Report: CMS Must Improve Fraud and Abuse Abatement ProgramsThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must do a better job of measuring the effectiveness of its fraud and abuse abatement, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report.
September 02, 2011
Ideas: CSC, UnitedHealth, Children's MercyComputer Sciences Corp. is trying to help insurance agents manage their agencies through a "cloud-based" system that can be reached from a wide variety of different devices and systems.
September 02, 2011
GAO Study: More DB Plans Are Investing in Hedge Funds, Private Equity FundsA growing number of defined benefit plans, predominately large ones, are investing through hedge funds and in private equity funds.
September 02, 2011
Pacific Life Completes Buy Out of Manulife's Retrocession BusinessPacific Life Insurance Company has announced that it has completed its purchase of Manulife Financial Corporation's retrocession business with $106 billion in individual life reinsurance face amounts.
September 02, 2011
Personnel Changes: Lockton, The Vitality Group, Symetra, OthersLockton Companies, LLC, Washington, has hired Steve Conger to be vice president and producer of its brokerage team based in Washington, D.C.