Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Feature: Why producers need to get licensed to do life settlements
By Linda KocoInsurance producers who want to transact life settlements need to check the settlement licensing rules in the states where they want to do business. The rules are changing and vary from state to state.
June 28, 2010
Penn Mutual names Michael Goldfeder sales manager of the New York agencyThe Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Horsham, Pa., has announced that Michael Goldfeder, CFP, was recently appointed sales manager of the Palmieri-Ganley Agency in Uniondale, N.Y.
June 28, 2010
Quiz question: Settlement providers doing business in New YorkThis article answers the question: How many life settlement providers have received the New York's okay to do business under New York's new life settlement law?
June 28, 2010
Accounting Experts Anticipate Massive ChangesU.S. life insurers may soon need the ability to make regular changes in the assumptions underlying accounting for in-force products.
June 28, 2010
Ask the expert: How many bids to expect?This article answers the question: How many bids I should expect on settlement transactions and will they differ very much from one another?
June 27, 2010
Guardian Rolls Out a Single Premium Immediate AnnuityGuardian Life Insurance Company of America is adding a single-premium immediate annuity to its retirement annuity series.
June 27, 2010
Hartford to Expedite Group Death Benefit PaymentsA life insurer will be working with a funeral services firm to pay some group life claims within 48 hours after the death of the insured.
June 27, 2010
Quiz question: Settlement providers doing business in New YorkThis article answers the question: How many life settlement providers have received the New York's okay to do business under New York's new life settlement law?