Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
FSP Speaker: Prepare for Super Committee-Related Portfolio Adjustments
By Warren S. HerschAdvisors must be prepared to make quick adjustments to clients' retirement portfolios in response to the recommendations of the new "Super Committee" created by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
August 18, 2011
Moody's: Life Insurers Looked Great in June, But ....Large U.S. life insurers had a solid first half, but the last few weeks have been worrisome.
August 18, 2011
The Emergency Survival Plan for Health Insurance SpecialistsIf the post-reform world of health insurance has you feeling like your plane crash-landed in a strange jungle God knows where, you're not alone.
August 18, 2011
Personnel Changes: Pan-American Life, Jackson National, Mintel Comperemedia, Vertafore, HeffernanPan-American Life Insurance Group Inc. has hired Robert DiCianni to succeed Eugenio Magdalena as senior vice president for Latin America.
August 17, 2011
Groups Start Uniform Medical Claims Payer Reporting Standard ProjectStandards group say they hope to free health insurers, public health plans and other payers from variations in state medical claims reporting requirements.
August 17, 2011
IRS Adds Variable Annuity Issues to To-Do ListTax accounting issues of interest to variable annuity issuers have made it onto the guidance development project list at the Internal Revenue Service.
August 17, 2011
MIB: Life Activity Heats UpU.S. life insurers researched more requests for individual coverage in July than they did in July 2010.
August 17, 2011
PPACA: Feds Try to Make Coverage Easier to UnderstandFederal agencies have unveiled proposals for a glossary and a summary of benefits and coverage template that are supposed to make health coverage easier for consumers to understand.