Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Plunge Protection Team Posts Terror Comment Call
By Staff WriterThe President's Working Group on Financial Markets wants comments about availability of insurance for terrorism risk to come in by Aug. 2.
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
Plunge Protection Team Posts Terror Comment CallThe President's Working Group on Financial Markets wants comments about availability of insurance for terrorism risk to come in by Aug. 2.
June 17, 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 16, 2010
Brewer Signs 4 AdvisorsA full-service broker-dealer says it recently has attracted financial professionals with a total of about $100 million in assets under management.
June 16, 2010
Seeing The Value of Group Disability InsuranceDisability insurance can be an excellent product for your group clients to offer their employees -- and yet, 70 percent of the private sector workforce has no long-term disability insurance.
June 16, 2010
LIMRA: African-Americans More Interested In AnnuitizationAfrican-American consumers seem to be more interested than the general population as a whole in converting retirement savings into lifetime income.
June 16, 2010
California To Conduct More Health Rate Actuarial ReviewsThe California Department of Insurance will subject individual health insurance rate changes filed by the four biggest health carriers to an additional level of actuarial scrutiny, officials say.