Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
GAO: Broker Incentives Could Help Replace PPACA Mandate
By Allison BellPaying agents and brokers a flat fee per health plan enrollee--and extra for reeling in the uninsured--could help reduce the need for an Affordable Care Act individual health insurance ownership mandate.
April 18, 2011
Analysts Hold Breath as Earnings Season NearsOne securities analysts is hoping for pleasant surprises when North American life insurers start announcing first quarter earnings, and another is hoping insurers will replace stock buybacks with dividend increases.
April 18, 2011
Nationwide Shifts Corporate Life FocusNationwide Financial Services Inc. has changed the name of its corporate life insurance unit to Nationwide Business Solutions Group, from Corporate Insurance Markets.
April 18, 2011
Consultants: The Real World MattersYounger consumers may look for information about life insurance online - but real people and real life events continue to be the major triggers for those searches.
April 18, 2011
Seniors afraid policy changes will hurt retirement plansAccording to LIMRA research, more than half of retirees, ages 55 to 79, fear changes to Medicare, Social Security and taxes will affect their ability to afford retirement.
April 18, 2011
Consultants: The Real World MattersYounger consumers may look for information about life insurance online - but real people and real life events continue to be the major triggers for those searches.
April 18, 2011
Force Multiplier for GoodWhat is this financial force multiplier? We hardly have to ask. Plain and simple, it is life insurance.
April 18, 2011
Bad AdviceLast Monday, I received from a colleague a clipping of personal finance columnist Lynn Brenner's latest "Ask the Expert" column. The column runs in Newsday, ...