Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Facility-Based Health Care Costs Up, In-Home Care Remains Flat
By Danielle AndrusGenworth found that costs for care in assisted living facilities and nursing homes have increased over the past year, while in-home care has held steady.
June 06, 2011
Feeding the BeastThe Obama administration appears to be remaining steadfast in its desire to impose haircuts on two of the life industry's most profitable and highest-volume products, corporate-owned life insurance (COLI), and variable life and variable annuities.
June 06, 2011
Starr to Invest in China InsurerThe China Insurance Regulatory Commission has given Starr International Company Inc. permission to buy a large stake in Dazhong Insurance Company Ltd.
June 06, 2011
Are Credit Shelter Trusts Extinct?Starting in 2011, widows and widowers can add their unused estate tax exemption of the spouse who died most recently to their own.
June 06, 2011
Commenters to Plan Regulators: Electronic Disclosure Should Be the DefaultRetirement plan sponsor and service provider groups are asking the U.S. Labor Department to loosen restrictions on electronic plan disclosure efforts.
June 06, 2011
Reverse mortgage: One son's storyIn Senior Market Advisor's 2011 Senior Survey, participants were asked if they had done or would they ever consider doing a reverse mortgage. Seventy-six percent said no. Perhaps they might have had they heard the following story.