Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
What’s Money Got to Do With It?
By Lewis SchiffEven shrewd, calm Warren Buffet can be trapped by his emotional need to buy only bargain stocks.
December 31, 2010
The future is what we make itA new year has begun, and while the past is at least secure, the future is what we choose to make of it.
December 30, 2010
CMS May Hire Medicare Advantage Mystery ShoppersThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking into the possibility of hiring a contractor to help it monitor newspapers, websites and public events to detect misleading Medicare plan marketing practices.
December 30, 2010
PPACA: More Provisions Set to Go LiveThe new health insurance medical loss ratio rules and basic Medicare preventive services improvements are two of the Affordable Care Act provisions that will take effect Saturday.
December 30, 2010
HSA Balances Keep RisingMore U.S. taxpayers reported using health savings accounts in 2008 than in 2007, and the average HSA deduction also increased.
December 30, 2010
PPACA: IRS Changes Rules for BluesThe Internal Revenue Service has given nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans that violate a new medical loss ratio requirements a mechanism to stay in compliance with tax accounting rules.
December 30, 2010
Guggenheim Sub in Standard Life of Indiana DealA subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners L.L.C. may take Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana off the hands of rehabilitators.
December 30, 2010
The Mystery of the Hidden Guaranty FundsInsurance guaranty fund watchers say some states seem to be a little more open about guaranty funds than New York state has been.