Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
LIMRA: UL, Whole Life Sales Climb
By Warren S. HerschSales of universal life insurance increased 8% in the third quarter, and sales of whole life rose 6%.
November 22, 2010
Whole, Universal Life Sales Continue to Grow in Q3Once again, sales in whole life and universal life drove success in life insurance sales,according to LIMRA's U.S. Individual Life Insurance Sales survey.
November 22, 2010
Why It’s Called the Web, Plus How I Use Insurance to Update Clients’ Financial PlansMike Patton discusses how he's enhancing his website, and how he updates financial plans with an eye toward life insurance.
November 21, 2010
Higher Education: Raising Client Awareness about Supplemental College Funding through Life InsuranceLife insurance ownership is at a 50-year low, with only 44 percent of U.S. households owning individual life insurance, according to a report released by LIMRA during Life Insurance Awareness Month.
November 21, 2010
Life Insurers Cancel Policies After DeathAn article in the Sunday Los Angeles Times is taking a look at the practice of rescission--canceling insurance coverage after a policy has been issued--as it's playing out in the cases of some beneficiaries who were denied benefits when the policy owners died.
November 19, 2010
NAHU Survey: Members Spend Most of Time on Client-ServicingA new survey by the National Association of Health Insurers shows that more NAHU members spend more than 50% of their time servicing clients outside the sales process.
November 19, 2010
Insurer Group Lauds Medmal ProposalsThe Physician Insurers Association of America is pointing to conclusions by two bipartisan panels for medical malpractice reform as supporting its views that sensible legal reforms curbing medmal claims are critical for deficit reduction policies to work.
November 19, 2010
California Gets Poor Grades on HealthcareThe Golden State gets at best mediocre grades in a second annual Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) quality of care report card released by the California Department of Insurance.