Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IIABA: HHS Interfered with NAIC Deliberations
By Arthur D. PostalFederal officials worked behind the scenes to turn the National Association of Insurance Commissioners medical loss ratio decision-making process against agents, according to leaders of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America.
January 07, 2011
Pacific Life Adds Sales SupportThe life division at Pacific Life Insurance Company is creating 6 new divisional sales organizations to help its 27 regional life offices.
January 07, 2011
Florida Coalition: Targeted Co-Pay Cuts Save MoneyThe Florida Health Care Coalition says a value-based prescription co-payment system seemed to help employers generate a return of up to $1.33 over a 3-year period on every extra dollar spent up front on prescription drugs.
January 07, 2011
Market Bulls: Get a Life!Beware the dangerous seductiveness of the return of active stock picking.
January 07, 2011
New LTC Insurance Guides Give Tax Deductibility, RegulationsTwo new guides providing information on the 2011 tax deductibility limits and the regulations governing long-term care insurance (LTCI) have been published and are now available from the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance.
January 06, 2011
Gerova Buys $1.2 Billion in Life SettlementsGerova Financial Group Ltd. has paid a total of about $105 million for a $1.2 billion portfolio of life insurance policies and loans on life policies.
January 06, 2011
Moody's: Health Rate Reviews a WorryThe possibility that federal regulators could politicize reviews of health insurance rate increase notices could be a financial risk factor for insurers this year, according to analysts at Moody's Investors Service.
January 06, 2011
CMS: Federal Health Spending Amounts to 54% of 2009 RevenueHealth care spending devoured 54% of federal revenue in 2009, up from 38% in 2008 and up from 28% in 2007.