Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
PricewaterhouseCoopers: PPACA Reduces Employer Flexibility
By Staff WriterThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has not had much effect on the price of medical care, but it has affected employers' ability to save money by changing their benefits packages, consultants say.
May 18, 2011
AXA Equitable updates UL productAXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has added several enhancements to its Athena Universal Life policy.
May 18, 2011
AXA Equitable updates UL productAXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has added several enhancements to its Athena Universal Life policy.
May 18, 2011
Charkales named regional VP for W&S Financial Group DistributorsW&S Financial Group Distributors, the wholesale distribution agency for annuities and life insurance within Western & Southern Financial Group, has named George A. Charkales its regional vice president for broker-dealers in New England.
May 18, 2011
New article could help raise much-needed consumer awarenessThis week, I want to give a shout out to Don McNay, CLU, ChFC, MSFS, CSSC, for his excellent article posted May 14 on The Huffington Post, titled A Different Look at Life Insurance.
May 18, 2011
McCarty: Unclaimed Property Probe Could Bring in "North of $1 Billion"The current probe of life insurers' death benefits payment practices could help beneficiaries and state unclaimed property funds recoup "north of $1 billion," Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said today.
May 17, 2011
PPACA: HHS Presses on with ACO PilotThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is going ahead with efforts to recruit Medicare providers who are willing to test the "accountable care organization" approach to health care delivery.