Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
NFL Players Gain Victory Over League in Workers’ Comp Dispute
By Marlene Y. SatterA more-than-thirty-year-long dispute between football players and the National Football League has finally been settled with a permanent injunction that restricts the right of the League to collect a reimbursement of workers’ compensation benefits paid to players.
March 30, 2011
CMS Schedules CO-OP MeetingThe Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Advisory Board will meet April 15 to vote on recommendations for a CO-OP grant and loan award strategy.
March 30, 2011
HealthSpring Completes OfferingHealthSpring Inc. says it has raised about $301 million by selling 7.5 million shares of common stock to the public and 1.125 million shares to the offering underwriters.
March 30, 2011
Don't be that guyThe story is told of an insurance agent who one morning received a telephone call from the wife of his "best" client.
March 30, 2011
Federal Agencies Post Comp Rule DraftFederal financial services regulators have proposed rules that are supposed to keep "covered financial institutions" from adopting compensation systems that encourage executives, employees, directors and principal shareholders from taking excessive risk.
March 30, 2011
P-C Society to Try Health Insurance ResearchThe Society of Insurance Research has formed a health advisory panel.
March 30, 2011
Panel Eyes Cost of PPACA on Medicare ProvidersUnrealistically strict efforts to hold down Medicare providers reimbursement rates could backfire, by reducing the number of providers who take Medicare, according to an official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
March 30, 2011
IRS Releases W-2 Group Health GuidelinesMost employers that send out more than 250 W-2 wage tax withholding forms in 2012 will have to provide information about how much they spend on the employees' group health coverage.