Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
After a Near-Death Experience, Individual LTC Sales Rise Sharply
By Trevor ThomasIndividual long term care (LTC) insurance sales rose 13% in the first half of this year, reversing a sales decline that had endured for most of the previous seven years, LIMRA reports.
September 12, 2010
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You AreIf you have been following the retained asset account situation - and I can't imagine many of you have not - then you'll know how the life industry has suddenly found itself squarely in the crosshairs of a controversy.
September 12, 2010
Universal Life InsuranceThe editors of Full Disclosure periodically survey life insurers active in upper markets across a wide range of product specifications, illustrations, guaranteed minimum premiums, and more.
September 12, 2010
After a Near-Death Experience, Individual LTC Sales Rise SharplyIndividual long term care (LTC) insurance sales rose 13% in the first half of this year, reversing a sales decline that had endured for most of the previous seven years, LIMRA reports.
September 10, 2010
Editor's Blog: Planned ObsolescenceBill Coffin points out that one person's reform may be another's headache.
September 10, 2010
Proposed Law Requires Life Settlement DisclosureKentucky state representative Ronald Crimm (R-Louisville) has drafted a model bill that would require some policy owners to be told about the option to take a life settlement when considering terminating or cashing in a policy.
September 10, 2010
PPACA: Mixing It UpRegulators have to figure out how to handle health carriers that offer more than one type of health plan when they implement the new minimum medical loss ratio rules.
September 10, 2010
Sebelius to AHIP: Enough with the Letters, AlreadyU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the Obama administration will take action if health insurers continue to blame 2011 rate hikes on the Affordable Care Act.