Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life Settlement Index Improves
By Staff WriterThe latest Amrita Life Settlement Index shows continued improvement in the life settlement market, with a 4.8% gain from 706.3 points in October to 739.6 points in November.
December 07, 2010
Employer Health Insurance Rates Up Sharply: StudyHigher premiums plus higher out-of-pocket costs for health care are putting working families' budgets under stress across the country, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, New York, asserts.
December 07, 2010
Hannover Re Tweaks Guide for Older RisksHannover Life Reassurance Company of America has added a new older age life underwriting module within its Web-based guide, Ascent.
December 07, 2010
Securian Life enters N.Y. market with new indexed UL productSecurian Life Insurance Company, St. Paul, Minn., has entered New York's individual life insurance market with Eclipse Indexed Universal Life Insurance.
December 07, 2010
Physicians Mutual Appoints Frohman as Senior Vice PresidentPhysicians Mutual president and CEO Robert A. Reed announces the appointment of Ann Frohman as senior vice president of government and industry.
December 07, 2010
Hannover Re Tweaks Guide for Older RisksHannover Life Reassurance Company of America has added a new older age life underwriting module within its Web-based guide, Ascent.
December 07, 2010
Dodd-Frank Swaps: Insurers Eye "Substantial Position" DefinitionThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission cite insurer comments several times in a draft that would implement part of the swaps provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
December 07, 2010
Industry Reacts to Tax DealLife insurance agent trade groups had a guarded reaction to the proposed compromise tax cut unveiled by President Barack Obama late Monday.