Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
FASB to Work with IASB on Insurance Contracts Standard
By Allison BellThe Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to team with the International Accounting Standards Board to try to develop a single accounting standard for insurance contracts.
February 08, 2011
PPACA: GOP Governors Blast Exchange ProceduresTwenty-one Republican governors are asking the Obama administration to change the rules for setting up and running the new Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange programs.
February 08, 2011
Professional seminars build credibility, businessSince entering the life insurance business in 1984, I have had a lot of success selling group and individual disability insurance to closely held business owners.
February 08, 2011
Triple-S Completes Medicare Advantage DealTriple-S Management Corp. has acquired Socios Mayores en Salud Holdings Inc. for about $83 million in cash.
February 08, 2011
California Jury Awards $4 Million in DI CaseA Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $4.2 million in damages to a disability insurance policyholder who said her insurance company had unreasonably terminated her benefits.
February 08, 2011
LIFE: Insurance is RomanticAbout 88% of women think buying life insurance that names a loved one as the beneficiary is a good way to express love for that loved one.
February 08, 2011
Democrats Call for Broad Retirement Plan Fiduciary DefinitionSeveral top Democratic lawmakers are asking the U.S. Department of Labor to define the term "fiduciary" broadly in a proposed regulation that could affect parties that do business with retirement plans and plan participants.
February 08, 2011
LIFE: Insurance is RomanticAbout 88% of women think buying life insurance that names a loved one as the beneficiary is a good way to express love for that loved one.