Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Lawmakers Schedule ER Use Hearing
By Staff WriterStrategies for reducing non-emergency use of emergency rooms will be the focus of an upcoming Senate hearing.
May 09, 2011
Bad News for PessimistsMortality for the general U.S. population has been increasing at an average rate of about 1% per year.
May 09, 2011
A Team EffortRosemarie Rossetti, the spokeswoman for the 2011 Disability Insurance Awareness Month public education campaign, had plenty going for her June 13, 1998
May 09, 2011
Editor's Blog: A Captive AudienceWe might be tempted to ignore today's seemingly ham-fisted New York Times story about life insurers and captives, but that would be a big mistake.
May 09, 2011
Milliman: UL Profitability DipsLow interest rates seem may have hurt earnings of U.S. universal life operations during the first half of 2010.
May 09, 2011
Captives, Special Purpose Vehicles Draw FireThe New York Times has published an article raising questions about whether use of captive insurers could weaken insurance industry oversight.
May 09, 2011
Kaiser: Cost Gap WidensThe United States did about as well as other rich countries at controlling total health expenditure increases in the 1990s, but its grip started to weaken around 2000.
May 09, 2011
Treasury Forms Insurance PanelThe U.S. Treasury Department is creating a Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance and reserving half of the seats for state insurance regulators