Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
PPACA: HHS Offers Exchange Grants
By Staff WriterThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is providing more grants to help states set up health insurance exchange programs.
January 21, 2011
1099 Fix: 3 Democrats Think NeatThree Senate Democrats say they will support efforts to repeal the broad new Form 1099 tax reporting law - but only if they get a clean bill from the House.
January 21, 2011
SEC Accuses Costa Rican Firm of Settlement FraudThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an offshore financial company and the company's president with carrying out fraud involving life settlement bonds.
January 21, 2011
Popularity of HSAs and HRAs Increases in 2010Despite health reform, assets increased in health savings and retirement vehicles.
January 20, 2011
Ways and Means Schedules PPACA HearingRep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is preparing to focus the panel's attention on the effects of the Affordable Care Act package on employers.
January 20, 2011
ASPPA to EBSA: New Pension Funding Notice is Too LongDefined pension plan participants may tune out and miss important information if they get excessively long pension funding notices.
January 20, 2011
Taxpayer Advocate: PPACA to Turn IRS into Social Benefits AgencyThe Internal Revenue Service might not have the funding, the staff, the skills or the data to do a good job of implementing the new personal and employer health coverage requirements.
January 20, 2011
ACLI Asks for Broader QDIA, Target Date Fund Income WarningThe American Council of Life Insurers wants revised retirement plan disclosure notices to educate participants about the risk of depending on any variable-return fund for retirement income.