Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
MIB: Life Activity Heats Up
By Staff WriterU.S. life insurers researched more requests for individual coverage in July than they did in July 2010.
August 15, 2011
HealthEquity Acquires MsaverHealthEquity Inc. has bought First Horizon Msaver Inc., a health savings account administrator, from First Tennessee Bank N.A.
August 15, 2011
Missouri Department: Our Exchange Has Bipartisan SupportOfficials at the Missouri Department of Insurance say they believe their state's health insurance exchange has support from Republicans as well as Democrats.
August 15, 2011
IRS Releases Annuity-LTC Exchange GuidanceThe Internal Revenue Service has come out with a document, IRS Notice 2011-68, that discusses the tax rules that apply to annuity-long term care benefits hybrids and exchanges of annuity cash surrender value for qualified LTC insurance.
August 15, 2011
AnnuitySpecs: Indexed Life Sales SoarU.S. sales of indexed life insurance jumped to $224 million in the second quarter, up 35% from the total for the comparable quarter in 2010.
August 15, 2011
New York to Insurers: So, How's Your Mom?The New York State Insurance Department is asking insurers doing business in the state to give it any annual registration statements the insurers' holding companies file in other states.
August 15, 2011
PPACA: NAIC Pans Multi-State Plan NoticeThe large multi-state plans that show up on health insurance exchanges in 2014 should follow state insurance rules, state insurance regulators say.
August 15, 2011
Super Committee: Securities Firms, Health Professionals Outgave InsurersThe insurance industry ranks just 10th on a list of top industry contributors to members of the new "super committee" - the congressional panel that is supposed to find $1.5 trillion in federal spending cuts by Thanksgiving.