Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Return...to What?
By Allison BellSo, just how hard is it to return workers who have gone out on disability to work at a time when empty cubicles abound?
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
Mark Zesbaugh to Lead Security LifeThe board of Security Life Insurance Company of America has hired Mark Zesbaugh to be the company's new president and chief executive officer.
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
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
Women undervalue their own worth, says surveyWomen tend to underrate the monetary value of what they do in the home, which has serious consequences when trying to formulate the proper life insurance coverage. That was the finding and analysis from a survey sponsored by Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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
Dozens of States Eye Life Claims ProceduresA t least 35 states and the District of Columbia have joined in efforts to look at how life insurers determine whether insureds have died and how they go about locating policy beneficiaries.