Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Washington State Updates Juvenile Life Rules
By Allison BellRegulators in a Northwestern state want insurers to do more to try to detect cases of applicants buying juvenile life insurance for speculative or fraudulent reasons.
June 03, 2010
How to overcome LTCI objectionsHow do you handle the real reasons lurking behind clients' objections to LTCI costs?
June 03, 2010
Personnel Changes: Alliantgroup, Guardian, NEAM, Symetra, Penn Mutual, Futurity First, Aon, Strategic InsightAlliantgroup L.P. has hired Jim Ramstad, a former member of Congress and former member of the House Ways and Means Committee, to be a senior advisor.
June 03, 2010
Q&A with Disability Producer John Nichols: Helping Your Clients Reach Their Dreams and GoalsDisability insurance is the most overlooked and misunderstood form of major insurance, but one that most people need.
June 02, 2010
PPACA: Which Loss Ratios Should Be THE Loss Ratios?Aetna Inc. is asking insurance regulators to let insurers use companywide medical loss ratio (MLR) statistics, rather than single-state statistics, when complying with the new Affordable Care Act MLR standards.
June 02, 2010
MIB, Hooper Holmes Add Mortality Risk ToolTwo underwriting services organizations have developed a program that life insurers can use to detect excess mortality risk in blocks of what appear to be low-risk life policies.
June 02, 2010
LIMRA: VA Consumers Still Buy Guaranteed Living BenefitsGuaranteed living benefit riders were elected 87% of the time on variable annuities offering the features during the first quarter, according to LIMRA.
June 02, 2010
Vermont Finds Carrier Overpaid Former ExecVermont insurance regulators have concluded an executive compensation investigation by ordering a nonprofit health insurer to give $3 million in refunds to subscribers.