Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Widening the View of Risk Tolerance
By Mathew GreenwaldOne of the most valuable services a financial advisor can provide to retired clients is an assessment of the finance-related risks they face.
February 14, 2011
Rating Agency: Student Health Proposal to be Hard on PlansProposed 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
Lawyer: Dependent Coverage Rules Can Surprise WorkersEmployees who use state dependent coverage rules to get health insurance for some dependents could end up having to include the value of the insurance in state taxable income.
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
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.