Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
PPACA: The Battle of the Projections
By Arthur D. PostalHealth insurers and the Obama administration are clashing over the future effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs.
January 28, 2011
Combined Insurance Signs EBCAEmployee Benefits Corp. of America has agreed to market supplemental insurance products and services from Combined Insurance Worksite Solutions through EBCA independent agents.
January 28, 2011
Combined Insurance Signs EBCAEmployee Benefits Corp. of America has agreed to market supplemental insurance products and services from Combined Insurance Worksite Solutions through EBCA independent agents.
January 28, 2011
PPACA: Feds Seek Comments on Nonprofit Health PlansFederal regulators are gathering information that could be used to set up the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Program provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
January 28, 2011
Earnings: StanCorp, Absolute Life, WellPoint, NorthwesternThe latest life and health earnings release season picked up steam this week.
January 27, 2011
Nonprofit Plan Advisory Board Announces MeetingThe Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Advisory Board -- a body that is supposed to help the government foster the creation of a new crop of nonprofit health insurers -- will hold a full-day public meeting in Washington Feb. 7.
January 27, 2011
To defraud a nun: A tale of bad brokersA Long Island, N.Y.-based broker has agreed to settle the SEC's charges against him for defrauding a congregation of elderly nuns in Bronx, N.Y. The broker must now leave the securities business, disgorge $250,000 and pay a $100,000 penalty.
January 27, 2011
CDC: Public Plans Control PressureMedicaid, Medicare and other government-run health plans, such as military health plans, might be doing better than private health carriers at helping enrollees control high blood pressure and high cholesterol.