Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Greek Woes Grow With New Downgrade; Ireland Expected to Follow
By Marlene Y. SatterTuesday was a day of discouraging news for Greece, which, along with Portugal, was hit by a Standard & Poor’s downgrade.
March 29, 2011
WGBY Airs MassMutual-Backed Autism DocumentaryWGBY, the public television station in Springfield, Mass., recently premiered "Autism: Coming of Age," an hour-long documentary sponsored by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
March 29, 2011
North Carolina Finds Precertification, Claim Processing DelaysThe North Carolina Department of Insurance has imposed $600,000 in fines on a health insurer in connection with recordkeeping and processing problems detected during a routine market conduct examination.
March 29, 2011
Industry Witnesses Blast Labor Fiduciary ProposalMany parts of a U.S. Department of Labor fiduciary definition proposal are dangerously ambiguous, according to a retirement services vendor executive.
March 29, 2011
Summit Business Media Launches BenefitsPro.comSummit Business Media has announced the official launch of BenefitsPro.com, a source of news and opinion aimed at benefits brokers, human resources managers and retirement advisors.
March 29, 2011
GAO: Broker Incentives Could Help Replace PPACA MandatePaying 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.
March 29, 2011
McCarthy promoted to New York Life's SVP, corporate communicationsNew York Life Insurance Co. has named Elizabeth McCarthy its senior vice president in charge of corporate communications.
March 29, 2011
Moody's: The 2010 RBC Apples Are Bigger Than the 2009 OrangesThe median U.S. life insurer company risk-based capital ratio was higher at the end of 2010 than at the end of 2009, but analysts at Moody's Investor Service question how much that comparison really means.