Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Rating Agency: Student Health Proposal to be Hard on Plans
By Allison BellProposed student health plan Affordable Care Act compliance regulations could reduce use of the plans but probably will not hurt the credit quality of the big health insurers.
February 14, 2011
EBSA Postpones Enforcing Retirement Services Reporting RuleThe Employee Benefits Security Administration will wait until Jan. 1, 2012, to begin applying new retirement plan service provider fee disclosure regulations.
February 14, 2011
LIFE Continues Scholarship ProgramThe Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education is once again promoting life insurance by sponsoring a Life Lessons Scholarship Program contest.
February 14, 2011
Obama Budget: COLI Tax, Dividend Deduction Cut, Life Settlement Reporting, PBGC Reform, PPACA Funding, Dodd-Frank Funding . . . .The Obama administration is calling in its 2012 budget for a new tax on corporate-owned-life insurance, a cut in the dividends-received deduction for variable life and variable annuity products, and many other provisions.
February 14, 2011
Analysts: Obama Budget Not That Bad for Life InsurersIf the life insurance revenue raisers in the Obama administration's 2012 budget proposal somehow become law, they may have only a small effect on company profits, securities analysts predict.
February 14, 2011
American General Life Companies announces new AG Secure Lifetime Guaranteed Universal Life InsuranceAmerican General Life Companies (American General) announces AG Secure Lifetime GUL(SM), a new universal life insurance product designed for clients who need a guaranteed, affordably priced permanent death benefit.
February 13, 2011
American General Life Companies announces new AG Secure Lifetime Guaranteed Universal Life InsuranceAmerican General Life Companies (American General) announces AG Secure Lifetime GUL(SM), a new universal life insurance product designed for clients who need a guaranteed, affordably priced permanent death benefit.
February 13, 2011
Obama Budget: COLI Tax, Dividend Deduction Cut, Life Settlement Reporting, PBGC Reform, PPACA Funding, Dodd-Frank Funding . . . .The Obama administration is calling in its 2012 budget for a new tax on corporate-owned-life insurance, a cut in the dividends-received deduction for variable life and variable annuity products, and many other provisions.