Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
HHS Awards More Exchange Construction Grants
By Staff WriterThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allocated a total of about $35 million in health insurance exchange establishment grants to three states - Indiana, Washington State and Rhode Island.
May 23, 2011
CannibalismWith the average age in the financial services industry hovering in the high 50s, there is a critical need for new and younger representatives to reach our growing population.
May 23, 2011
NAIC Panel OKs Exchange Producer PaperThe Exchanges Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has approved a draft white paper that compares the roles navigators and producers might play in a new system of health insurance exchanges.
May 23, 2011
Great DisappointmentsIf that is the case, then life insurers ought to get on this quick, because if you plan on leaving behind your friends and family, then the least you could do is arrange for them to be a little more comfortable.
May 23, 2011
MWA: BOLI Holdings Climb 5.8%U.S. bank-owned life insurance assets increased 5.8% in 2010, to about $142 billion.
May 23, 2011
Lawyer Analyzes Teren Ruling for ILMAFormal definitions of insurable interest seem to matter more than intent when courts are considering stranger-originated life insurance cases, a lawyer says.
May 23, 2011
Full CircleHe told me that after 9/11 he decided to look more closely at his own mortality, and in turn, at his current employer sponsored life insurance policy. He has since supplemented that plan.
May 23, 2011
Moody's: Life Reinsurers Face Pressure to Branch OutU.S. life insurers are buying less reinsurance they were a decade ago, and that shift is putting pressure on life reinsurers, according to analysts at Moody's Investors Service.