Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance: Profit Center?
By Marlene Y. SatterAccording to a Bloomberg News report, there's really no need for an insurance company to be involved at all in paying out death benefits to...
October 24, 2010
Full Disclosure Report: Indexed Universal Life InsuranceFull Disclosure covers universal life insurance products twice per year and features both fixed and indexed policies.
October 24, 2010
What's Wrong With Florida? ...and with Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California...An avid reader called us here in the Hoboken, N.J., office of National Underwriter and said, "I live in Florida. Why is it that every questionable life insurance and annuity sales practice seems to start or take off here?"
October 24, 2010
Shoot the MoonA great deal is at stake in this mid-term, and it reminds me of the 1994 "Republican Revolution" in which the GOP won control of Congress off the backlash against the Clinton administration's efforts to create a national healthcare plan.
October 24, 2010
Could Life Insurer M&A Be About to Pick Up?The recession virtually snuffed out merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the life insurance industry as carriers scrambled to stem severe capital shortages.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: ACO Market Size MattersThe new accountable care organizations may work better if they are more tightly knit in bigger communities and more loosely structured in smaller communities.
October 22, 2010
PPACA: CBO Skeptical about Cost SavingsThe Affordable Care Act may have only a "very limited" effect on unnecessary U.S. health care spending in the coming decade, according to Congressional Budget Office analysts.