Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Hartford Returning to Structured Settlement Market
By Staff WriterHartford Life Insurance Company is getting back into the structured settlement annuity business in an effort to expand overall annuity sales.
August 22, 2011
Are financial advisors neglecting life insurance?A recent survey indicates that many advisors do not discuss life insurance with their clients.
August 22, 2011
NAIC Eyes Separate Account RulesA subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is asking whether the current regulatory framework for separate accounts makes sense, and whether guarantees have a legitimate place in a separate account.
August 22, 2011
Grading ErrorWhen Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating on August 5, the move came as an unwelcome surprise for many--especially those federal legislators on whom the downgrade was largely blamed.
August 22, 2011
Brian Ashe on life insurance: "The premium is always less than the problem."Brian Ashe, CLU, a past president of the Million Dollar Round Table, talks about how to sell life insurance to seniors, the challenges the industry faces and why the middle market is so important.
August 22, 2011
Fixed Index Universal Life: Time for a Second LookMore Americans than ever before need help from a financial professional to learn the ins and outs of today's life insurance options, yet fewer consumers are actually purchasing new life insurance policies.