Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
UL Offers Death Benefit Guarantee, Cash Value Accumulation
By Staff WriterLife Insurance Company of the Southwest is rolling out a universal life policy that is designed to provide both death benefit guarantees and cash value accumulation.
May 05, 2010
NAFA: Offer Retirement Savers Product Neutral InformationFinancial advisors should give defined contribution retirement plan participants "product-neutral information" about retirement planning and planning options, according to the National Association for Fixed Annuities.
May 05, 2010
NAIC Lists Risk Pool AdoptersAt least 31 states plan to operate their own transitional high-risk pool health coverage programs, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
May 05, 2010
NCOIL: Go Slow On Health Rate Review ProposalCongress should put off deciding whether to adopt the Health Insurance Rate Authority Act, a state lawmaker says.
May 05, 2010
ASPPA: What Is A "Generally Accepted Investment Theory"?The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries has expressed concerns about government efforts to shape the investment advice that might be offered to retirement plan participants.
May 05, 2010
HHS Secretary Urges States To Rein In Health RatesState governors and state insurance commissioners should take active steps to keep health insurers from instituting "excessive rate increases," according to a top Obama administration official.
May 05, 2010
LISA Blasts Stranger-Originated AnnuitiesThe Life Insurance Settlement Association is asking regulators and life insurers to do more to stamp out stranger-originated annuity transactions.
May 05, 2010
Baty To Oversee InsurerBruce Baty will be the special deputy receiver for National States Insurance Company.