Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
VA Designed For Sale In Fee-Based Market
By Linda KocoAllianz Life Insurance Company of North America says it is planning to enter the fee-based market with a new variable annuity.
May 03, 2010
Hewitt: This is A Wakeup Call On Retirement NeedsTypical U.S. employees will need to have resources equal to more than 15 times their final pay to maintain their standard of living after they retire, according to analysts at Hewitt Associates Inc.
May 03, 2010
Treasury, Labor Get Earful About AnnuitiesAnnuities and other private-market products that provide income guarantees could play a major role in improving U.S. workers' retirement income security, life insurer representatives have told federal regulators.
May 03, 2010
PBGC Assumes Colonial Bank Pension PlanThe Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. is assuming responsibility for the underfunded pension plan of a bank with about 3,250 employees and retirees.
May 03, 2010
ACLI Blasts Proposed Bank TaxLife insurers are asking members of the Senate Finance Committee to kill a proposed tax on large insurers that own broker-dealers.
May 03, 2010
Actuary: Act Fast, Or Individual Health Insurers Will FleeIf regulators do not come up with a realistic medical loss ratio rule transition plan for individual heath insurance, insurers may start to abandon the market in June.
May 03, 2010
Principal, Genworth, Hartford Post Robust EarningsAll three insurers report a big turnaround in Q1 over 2009
May 03, 2010
DI Awareness Month: Ignorance, Denial PersistTens of millions of U.S. workers are still one serious illness or injury away from financial disaster.