Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Delta Dental Plans Eye Exchange System
By Allison BellDental plans are asking the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to think about them when it is helping to set up the new health insurance exchanges.
March 22, 2011
Dearborn Cuts DistributorsDearborn National has ended a distribution and marketing agreement with Rayant Insurance Agency Inc.
March 22, 2011
Detailed letters can speed underwriting processEvery producer knows that getting from illustration to application to issued to commission can be a long, agonizing process.
March 22, 2011
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March 22, 2011
Republicans: SEC Has Not Justified Fiduciary Standard RulemakingRepublican members of the House Financial Services Committee are opposing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decision to proceed with development of a uniform fiduciary standard regulation.
March 22, 2011
WellPoint to Raise Calif. Individual Rates 9.1%A unit of WellPoint Inc. has agreed to increase individual health insurance rates in California a little less and a little later than it had originally proposed.
March 22, 2011
AHIP to NAIC: Well-Paid Producers Important to Exchange SystemPaying agents and brokers who work with the new health insurance exchanges fairly could protect the exchanges against adverse selection, according to C.M. Gallaher, a vice president at America's Health Insurance Plans.
March 22, 2011
Steven Kandarian to Lead MetLifeThe board of MetLife Inc. has named Steven Kandarian - the man who picked a good time to sell the Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town residential development - to succeed C. Robert Henrikson as president and chief executive officer.