Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ASPPA to EBSA: New Pension Funding Notice is Too Long
By Allison BellDefined pension plan participants may tune out and miss important information if they get excessively long pension funding notices.
January 20, 2011
Federal Judge Blocks UL Rate HikeA federal judge has rejected efforts by a life insurer to increase premiums for about 50,000 universal life contracts.
January 20, 2011
Life Settlement Execs Charged in TexasTwo executives of a life settlement firm in Houston have been indicted by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas.
January 20, 2011
Producers: Will Republicans Help Improve PPACA?Congressional affairs experts at some producer groups are wondering whether Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act so much that they will avoid making serious efforts to fix obvious problems.
January 20, 2011
Federal Judge Blocks UL Rate HikeA federal judge has rejected efforts by a life insurer to increase premiums for about 50,000 universal life contracts.
January 20, 2011
Life Settlement Execs Charged in TexasTwo executives of a life settlement firm in Houston have been indicted by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas.
January 20, 2011
SEC Said to Probe Life Partners on Life ExpectancyLife Partners Holdings, Inc., a company that has been a pioneer in the field of life insurance securitization, is under investigation by the SEC, according to individuals with whom the agency has spoken.
January 20, 2011
Health Care Costs Still Rising, but Rate Slows, S&P FindsAccording to data released Thursday by Standard & Poor’s for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index, health care costs are still rising, but their rate of increase has been slowing since May of 2010.