Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life Partners Hires Auditor
By staff WriterThe board audit committee of Life Partners Holdings Inc. has named Whitley Penn L.L.P. to be the company's new accounting firm.
July 04, 2011
Unclaimed Property: New York Requires Use of Death Master FileNew 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 04, 2011
Lamar Odom to represent Life Insurance Awareness MonthLamar Odom, Los Angeles Lakers forward and star of the reality television show "Khloe & Lamar," will serve as national spokesperson for this year's Life Insurance Awareness Month (LIAM), which takes place in September.
July 02, 2011
Advisors: Successful sales pipeline habitsIf your average sales cycle is three months but you have proposed opportunities that are six to nine months old, the probability of closing those opportunities is almost zero.
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.