Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
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By Allison BellRosemarie Rossetti, the spokeswoman for the 2011 Disability Insurance Awareness Month public education campaign, had plenty going for her June 13, 1998
May 08, 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.
May 08, 2011
Bad News for PessimistsMortality for the general U.S. population has been increasing at an average rate of about 1% per year.
May 08, 2011
The Road Less TraveledFor many years the number of agents who regularly discuss disability income protection with their clients has diminished.
May 06, 2011
CMS Proposes Medicaid Care Access RuleThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a draft of a regulation that could help state Medicaid programs show they are meeting patient care access requirements.
May 06, 2011
Lincoln Realigns Insurance and Retirement TeamLincoln National Corp. will be showing a "major commitment to the group protection business" by investing in developing new products and expanding distribution, the company says.
May 06, 2011
Potter on PPACA: Consumer Reps Feel OutnumberedConsumer group representatives feel as if they are outnumbered 100 to 1 when they talk to Obama administration officials about implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to Wendell Potter.
May 06, 2011
AALU hits its strideIt's a pretty well-oiled machine. You could say that about the political lobbying efforts of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU), which wrapped up its 2011 annual meeting in Washington D.C. last Wednesday.