Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Unclaimed Property: New York Requires Use of Death Master File
By Allison BellNew York state insurance regulators are ordering life insurers to use the Social Security Death Master File to locate insureds who may have died and report on the effectiveness of the search.
July 01, 2011
HHS Posts Health Eligibility, Claims EDI RegsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is setting operating rules for sending messages about health insurance eligibility and health care claim status through electronic data interchange systems.
July 01, 2011
GAO Analyzes Annuity OptionsThe U.S. Government Accountability Office talks about annuities in a new report on retirement income planning.
July 01, 2011
Answer life's callImagine one of your clients wants to buy life insurance (it happens!). But you never get around to sell the product because you had bigger fish (read: "products") to fry.
July 01, 2011
Ohio Eliminating Estate TaxOhio Gov. John Kasich has signed a budget bill that includes a provision repealing the state's estate tax.
July 01, 2011
Employer-owned life insurance: The rules have changedYou can rectify improper filing of EOLI forms to your client's benefit.
July 01, 2011
Find security in an insecure worldIt's easy to forget how fragile life is when indulging in the joys of vacations, significant accomplishments, life's special moments or simply going about our day-to-day lives.
July 01, 2011
PPACA: NAIC Panel Backs MLR MeasureThe Professional Health Insurance Advisors Task Force at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has endorsed H.R. 1206, a U.S. House bill that calls for removing agent commissions from medical loss ratio calculations.