Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Agency Downgrades Insurer
By Allison BellA rating agency has cut the grades it has assigned to an insurance holding company and the company's operating subsidiaries.
June 18, 2010
New Hampshire Enacts Life Settlement LawA New Hampshire law will restrict settlements of life insurance policies that have been in effect for less than 5 years.
June 18, 2010
Personnel Changes: Lifeline, Presidential Life, Allianz, Trustmark, Symetra, Securian, AUL, HylantThe Lifeline Program unit of Wm. Page & Associates Inc. has hired Scott Sanders to be head of capital markets.
June 17, 2010
Benefits Consortium ExpandsSevenHills Partners Inc. has joined United Benefit Advisors L.L.C.
June 17, 2010
Grassley: Act Fast on Estate TaxA high-ranking Republican is asking Democratic congressional leaders to act quickly to reinstitute the federal estate tax.
June 17, 2010
EBSA Official: We Won't Take Over Retirement PlansThe head of an agency of the U.S. Labor Department promised Wednesday that the department has no interest in using annuitization as an excuse to help itself to private retirement savings.
June 17, 2010
CDA: Disability Claim Rate PlateausU.S. commercial disability insurers that participated in a recent survey said they approved about 141,000 disability claims in 2009, 1% fewer than they approved in 2008.
June 17, 2010
Grassley: Act Fast on Estate TaxA high-ranking Republican is asking Democratic congressional leaders to act quickly to reinstitute the federal estate tax.