Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IRI To Administration: Provide Incentives For Guaranteed Lifetime Income
By Linda KocoThe Insured Retirement Institute is asking the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Department of Labor to create incentives for employers to make guaranteed lifetime income strategies available inside employer-sponsored retirement plans.
April 29, 2010
Torchmark Unit To Hold Job FairAmerican Income Life Insurance Company wants to fill 125 contracted sales and sales management opening.
April 29, 2010
Social Networking A Life Underwriting Tool? Report Stirs DebateInsurers will increasingly use public shared data to inform pricing decisions and aid in fraud detection, predict researchers from Celent.
April 29, 2010
Costs for in-home care rise slower than alternativesA study by Genworth Financial found that while the cost of in-home care is rising, it's doing so at a slower pace than care in...
April 29, 2010
Canadian Insurer To Buy Texas CarrierIndustrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. has agreed to acquire the outstanding shares of American-Amicable Holding Inc. for about $144 million in cash, including about $45 million in excess capital.
April 29, 2010
IASB Seeks Comments On Pension Accounting DraftThe International Accounting Standards Board wants employers to move quickly to report changes in the value of defined benefit pension plan assets and the estimated value of benefits obligations.
April 29, 2010
The rogue tables are turnedA California man was arrested for holding a New York-based life insurer at virtual gunpoint.
April 29, 2010
Profit at Symetra Financial Surges in Q1Symetra Financial reported Thursday, April 29, first quarter profits of $46 million, or 35 cents a share, a huge jump compared to 2009's first quarter when net income was $5 million, or 5 cents a share.