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Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Do your prospects respect you?
By Kim MagdaleinDo your prospects respect you or your company on first contact? What have you done to position yourself as someone they can respect?
June 14, 2011
Feds Set RBC Rules for International Banking OrganizationsFederal banking regulators plan to require large, international banking organizations to meet U.S. risk-based capital standards if those are higher than the Basel II RBC standards, or the Basel II RBC standards if those are higher than the U.S. standards.
June 14, 2011
Amy Chen, CLU, to Lead Chinese-American Market Development for MassMutualRecruiting efforts will also be on the plate of the new appointee in the company's Springfield, Mass., corporate office. Click the headline for the full story.
June 13, 2011
Camp Welcomes Medicare ProposalA House Republican leader is praising Sen. Joe Lieberman for coming up with ideas for shoring up Medicare.
June 13, 2011
IRS Gives Nonprofit Plans, Hospitals More Time to Comply with PPACAThe Internal Revenue Service is pushing back the compliance deadlines for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act nonprofit health plan and nonprofit hospital social responsibility requirements.
June 13, 2011
AAA Panel Supports Life Expectancy Projections Standards ProjectMembers of an American Academy of Actuaries work group say any new life expectancy projection guidelines should go through a formal Actuarial Standards Board development process.
June 13, 2011
Federal Appeals Court Backs Disability ClaimantA federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has ruled against a mutual insurer and in favor of an injured railroad employee in a case involving an interpretation of the term "total disability."
June 13, 2011
Aetna Acquires Genworth Medigap UnitAetna Inc. is paying $290 million to acquire a Medicare supplement insurance business and blocks of in-force Medigap business from Genworth Financial Inc.