Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Personnel Changes: Symetra, The Marketing Alliance, Evolution, Health Plan One
By Ashley ScudderSymetra Life Insurance Company has hired John Richter to be vice president of national accounts.
February 10, 2011
Goodbye to GICsLife insurer sales of guaranteed investment contracts and other institutional, spread-based investment products stopped during the recent credit crisis and have just started to show faint signs of life.
February 10, 2011
Berwick: Medicare Advantage Changes WorkedDr. Donald Berwick says the changes that the Affordable Care Act made in the Medicare Advantage program are working better than critics had expected, and he is predicting that the act will continue to make Medicare stronger.
February 10, 2011
PPACA: Money TalkCongressional committees have been grilling many federal agency officials about the cost of federal health programs in recent days and have more health cost hearings on their calendars.
February 10, 2011
Goodbye to GICsLife insurer sales of guaranteed investment contracts and other institutional, spread-based investment products stopped during the recent credit crisis and have just started to show faint signs of life.
February 10, 2011
ACORD to Review LTC StandardsAn ACORD working group will be discussing progress on straight-through processing standards for long term care insurance applications at a conference in Atlanta.
February 10, 2011
New York Life To Pay LTCI Dividend For 7th Consecutive YearNew York Life announced on Feb. 11 that its LTCSelect Premier long-term care insurance product will pay a dividend to policyholders this year, at a time when many carriers are exiting the LTCI business.
February 10, 2011
Insurers to Treasury: Get Your Thoughts Straight, Then We'll TalkInsurance and reinsurance trade groups are asking the U.S. Treasury Department to get its act together before it tries to impose federal oversight on non-bank financial institutions deemed to be systemically risky.