Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Unum: More with Breast Cancer Return to Work
By Staff WriterThe return-to-work rate for U.S. workers with breast cancer increased to about 59% in 2007, from 29% in 2001.
October 25, 2010
Genworth to Increase Rates on Some Older LTC PoliciesGenworth Financial Inc. says it will raise rates 18% on two older blocks of comprehensive long term care insurance.
October 25, 2010
Insurers to the G-20: We're Not BanksLife insurers are joining with property-casualty insurers worldwide to ask the Group of 20 to distinguish between the banking industry and the insurance industry when trying to address systemic risk.
October 25, 2010
Should Same Rates Apply to All Health Care Payers?Many healthy policy watchers would like to see a single entity come up with hospital and physician services prices for private health insurers, public health programs and other payers, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
October 25, 2010
Brown & Brown Scoops Up Greystone AssetsA national insurance broker has acquired a benefits brokerage operation in Pennsylvania.
October 25, 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 25, 2010
Downing advances to senior VP, independent agent distribution, W&S Financial Group DistributorsWestern & Southern Financial Group, Cincinnati, has promoted Daniel J. Downing, CFP, to senior vice president of independent agent distribution for W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc.
October 25, 2010
Full Disclosure Report: Indexed Universal Life InsuranceFull Disclosure covers universal life insurance products twice per year and features both fixed and indexed policies.