Life Insurance
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MLR Commission Exclusion Bill is in the House
By Staff WriterReps. Mike Rogers and John Barrow have followed through on a commitment to introduce a bill that could keep producer commissions out of health carriers' medical loss ratio calculations.
March 18, 2011
Systemic Risk: Lawyers Wonder About Non-Insulated Separate AccountsState 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
GAO: Some Carriers Say "Yes" More Often Than OthersOfficials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office have found wide variations in health insurance application denial rates.
March 17, 2011
Rivlin: Let's Get Serious About MedicareA former Clinton administration official went to Capitol Hill to drum up support for a proposal for saving Medicare.
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.