Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Health Issues Heat Up for Agents
By Arthur D. PostalCongress is expected to take up, as early as this week, a proposed revision to the healthcare reform law designed to limit a stringent tax-reporting mandate scheduled to go into effect in 2012 that is particularly irksome to small businesses.
September 13, 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 13, 2010
GOP Poised to Take Back CongressPolls increasingly show gathering momentum for a Republican takeover of at least the House--and give Republicans an outside chance of taking the Senate as well--in November's mid-term elections.
September 13, 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 12, 2010
A Fond FarewellA lot of water has gone under the bridge the past 17 years with regards to our business.
September 12, 2010
GOP Poised to Take Back CongressPolls increasingly show gathering momentum for a Republican takeover of at least the House--and give Republicans an outside chance of taking the Senate as well--in November's mid-term elections.
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.