Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IRI: Annuity Change Filings Slow
By Staff WriterInsurers filed 76 material U.S. variable annuity changes in the second quarter, down from 213 in the second quarter of 2009.
July 28, 2010
PPACA: HHS Bends on Child Pre-existing Condition RulesThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it will let health plans use a structured open enrollment period to implement a ban on pre-existing condition exclusions for children.
July 28, 2010
LTCI update: multi-life products are strongAccording to LTCI guru Phyllis Shelton, LTCI sales are strong in the multi-life side of the business.
July 28, 2010
H.R. 5297 Hits Turbulence in SenateBackers of H.R. 5297, the Small Business Jobs Act bill, today had trouble getting the bill to the Senate floor.
July 28, 2010
Wisconsin Announces SettlementsWisconsin insurance regulators have negotiated settlement agreements with two companies that sell life and annuity products.
July 28, 2010
Life Insurers Face Attack on Payout MechanismLife insurers are defending themselves against allegations that a system for paying death benefits through checkbooks, rather than in the form of lump sums, hurts the beneficiaries.
July 28, 2010
Feds Set Rules for Parent KillersThe Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has changed board death benefit regulations.
July 28, 2010
What Buffett knowsThe science of neuroeconomics is about tradeoffs. Our ancestors spent millions of years learning to be impatient. We eat a lot today because we are hardwired to think that food might not be available tomorrow.