Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IRS to Adjust Plan Advisor User Fees
By Staff WriterThe Internal Revenue Service is restructuring the fees it imposes on the enrolled retirement plan agents who help retirement plans with tax matters.
April 19, 2011
FTC Drafts ACO Antitrust RulesThe Federal Trade Commission has published a notice explaining how it may go about applying antitrust rules to the new Medicare accountable care organizations.
April 19, 2011
All income riders are not created equal, part 1According to recent sales statistics, most variable deferred annuities and fixed index annuities are sold with income riders, and are becoming more common on traditional fixed annuities as well.
April 19, 2011
PPACA: Doak Not Okie Dokey with NavigatorsCongress should eliminate the navigators provision from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and, if that is not possible, regulators should require that Navigators be licensed health insurance producers, a state regulator says.
April 19, 2011
Correction: Life Settlement Provider Sues InsurerA version of an article posted here March 7 described communications involving Coventry First L.L.C., a large life insurer and a consumer incorrectly.
April 19, 2011
Advisors see a boom in boomer clientsAn Insured Retirement Institute webinar for financial advisors revealed that in the last year, more than seven in 10 advisors have experienced net increases in retirement income clients.
April 19, 2011
Client relationships: 3 more reasons to stop lol'ing and start talkingWhen you focus your efforts on having great conversations every day, you'll see that great things start to fall into place. Here are three reasons why.
April 19, 2011
Find prospects with help of courthouseFinding potential clients in the courthouse is no different from looking through the local newspaper for wedding or birth announcements. The key is knowing where to look.