Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
CBO Declines to Estimate Cost of PPACA Repeal
By Staff WriterOfficials at the Congressional Budget Office have no good way to estimate the overall, long-term effect of doing away with implementation funding for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
May 31, 2011
Moody's: Unclaimed Property Costs to Hit Reputational CapitalState investigations of life insurers' claim payment practices may do more damage to the insurers' image than to their surplus.
May 31, 2011
How to prospect in a new cityIn late 1987, I moved my family from New York City to Denver to begin a new career as a life insurance agent. I never had sold anything before and didn't know a soul in Denver
May 31, 2011
Creating the endless referral chainThe most effective and least expensive method of client acquisition is to create an endless chain of quality referrals
May 31, 2011
Nationwide CFO Takes on Executive Comp RegsNationwide Mutual Insurance Company has asked federal financial services regulators to exclude insurers with small thrifts from proposed compensation limits.
May 31, 2011
Actuaries: PPACA Could Help with Increasing Medicare Eligibility AgeAffordable Care Act health insurance access requirements could make pushing back the normal Medicare enrollment age easier to implement.
May 31, 2011
Lessons learned from rogue advisorsIt's hard to avert one's eyes when rogue advisor stories appear in the press. But what can you learn from these stories? That self-centeredness has tragic consequences.
May 31, 2011
Analysts: Europe May Change Life Product Tax RulesEuropean countries' efforts to increase tax revenue may erode the tax advantages life products in those countries now enjoy.