Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Retiring Texas Commissioner: Protect Life Settlement Investors
By Trevor ThomasTexas lawmakers should consider giving a state agency clear authority to oversee the investment side of the life settlement business, outgoing Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin says.
January 10, 2011
Missions AccomplishedYou might notice that I'm running a different headshot of myself now. The reason for it is because in the six months or so since I joined National Underwriter.
January 10, 2011
Don't ignore prospects' childrenI feel that many insurance men fail to sell the substantial policies that can be sold to fathers on the lives of their children. These are very fast sales and, very frequently, big ones.
January 10, 2011
Connolly Introduces RAA BillRep. Gerry Connolly has introduced a bill that could affect use of retained asset accounts at the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance program.
January 10, 2011
The No. 1 opportunity in the DI marketThe No. 1 reason many people don't have disability insurance coverage is because they have never been asked.
January 10, 2011
No Rest for the WearyAfter the long-running legislative battles over financial services reform, tax reform and Rule 151A in 2010, many in the life insurance world could use a breather.
January 10, 2011
The Case of the Mysterious Shrinking Case Sizesmall businesses are thirsty for credit, and that is giving nonmedical benefits sellers a sore throat. Prices for products such as group life, group disability, group dental and group vision are reasonably stable.
January 10, 2011
2011 Looks to be a Good Year for Executive Bonus PlansAfter a dismal 2008 and 2009, businesses are once again implementing life insurance-funded executive compensation plans for non-owner key executives.