Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
FDIC Publishes Orderly Liquidation Authority Final Rule
By Allison BellThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has completed work on regulations that could affect the steps it would take if it became the receiver of an insurance company or of an affiliate of an insurance company.
July 14, 2011
Illinois Providers Fight Balance Billing LawHospital-based physicians and pathology groups in Illinois are trying to overturn a new state law that prohibits some providers from "balance billing" patients.
July 14, 2011
New York Renews Life Settlement Licensing RegsThe New York State Insurance Department has used an emergency adoption process to keep the state's life settlement provider and intermediary licensing program in place.
July 14, 2011
Ideas: New York Life, National Life, Security MutualNew York Life Insurance Company says consumers may want to cope with the decline of defined benefit pension plans by using deferred annuities that allow for a flexible schedule.
July 14, 2011
Taleb Talks SwansFederal regulators need to help insure the economy against catastrophes, not just the optimize it to do well under ordinary conditions.
July 14, 2011
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July 14, 2011
Analysts: Managed Care Small Slice of M&A PieManaged care deals accounted for just 2% of the dollar value of health care mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter, according to Irving Levin Associates Inc.
July 14, 2011
CDC: Hawaiians Die, Too -- But Less OftenIn 2009, the age-adjusted risk of dying was about 50% higher for a resident of West Virginia than it was for a resident of Hawaii.