Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
GAO: Qualified SERPs a Mystery
By Allison BellNo one seems to know how many qualified supplemental executive retirement plans are out there or how the economic downturn affected the plans.
June 12, 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 10, 2011
Benefits Specialists Assess PPACA EffectsMembers of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans see employers paying more attention to the effects of the Affordable Care Act, but, at this point, few see the act causing employers to eliminate health benefits.
June 10, 2011
PPACA: IRS Starts to Design Health Plan Quality Research FeeThe Internal Revenue Service is asking for comments about how it should go about using fees from health insurers and sponsors of self-insured health plans to pay for comparative clinical effectiveness research.
June 10, 2011
LTC Insurers Seek Younger CustomersLong term care insurers and producers are trying to persuade consumers under age 35 to consider buying LTC insurance, or at least to think about why they might want the product later in life.
June 10, 2011
SPARK Asks Labor for More Time on Fee Disclosure ComplianceThe SPARK Institute is asking the U.S. Labor Department to change a new retirement plan fee disclosure postponement proposal and give retirement plans more time to comply.
June 10, 2011
5 questions for easy recruiting meetingsEvery recruit has five major questions. Answer them with clarity and you will stand heads-and-shoulders above the rest of the businesses their likely to meet with.
June 10, 2011
Minnesota Life Pays Claim on 1948 Life PolicyA Midwestern life insurer says recently paid death benefits to the beneficiary of a policyholder who bought a whole life policy in 1948 and finished making payments in 1959.