Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Systemic Risk: Lawyers Wonder About Non-Insulated Separate Accounts
By Arthur D. PostalState insurance commissioners are thinking more about ways to track products, such as corporate-owned life insurance and bank-owned life insurance, with assets held in non-insulated separate accounts.
March 17, 2011
NAIC Panel Posts Exchanges Adverse Selection DraftRegulators are starting to grapple with ideas about how to keep the new health insurance exchange distribution system from causing big new antiselection problems.
March 17, 2011
LTCI: Help clients beat the high cost of waitingOne of the secrets in this industry is a factor called "the high cost of waiting." It means that the younger you are when you purchase the policy, the less you will pay over the lifetime of the policy.
March 17, 2011
Securities Lending Experts Defend ArrangementsSecurities lending experts say regulators and retirement services providers should be able to fix the weaknesses in the current rules without restricting reasonable use of a valuable financial services tool.
March 17, 2011
The Week in PicturesDisaster in Japan, turmoil on Capitol Hill, the Affordable Care Act turns 1 year old, and more.
March 16, 2011
Editor's Blog: The Sound of DeathWhat impact will the nuclear crisis in Japan have on the life and health industry?
March 16, 2011
HHS: Traditional Medicare Enrollees are Getting CheckupsAbout 150,000 Medicare enrollees used new Affordable Care Act basic Medicare annual wellness visit benefits between Jan. 1 and Feb. 23, Obama administration officials say.
March 16, 2011
Editor's Blog: The Sound of DeathWhat impact will the nuclear crisis in Japan have on the life and health industry?