Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ISI Defends Life Policy-Backed Securities Market
By Trevor ThomasA life settlement think tank is defending the value of the life settlement securitization concept.
February 07, 2010
Feature: Execs react to Goldman shuttering its settlement unitGoldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, is shutting down its life settlement unit, a company spokesman acknowledges. Company officials are describing it as "a commercial decision."
February 05, 2010
Brown Hopeful On Health BillSen. Scott Brown, the freshly seated Republican senator from Massachusetts, says he would like to help revise the health bill.
February 05, 2010
New York To Push LTC InsuranceNew York State's Department of Insurance is recommending the state undertake a fresh campaign to encourage consumers to buy long term care insurance.
February 05, 2010
Groups Clash Over Fiduciary StandardLeading consumer and investor advocates today urged the Senate Banking Committee to stand strong in the face of a massive lobbying effort by the insurance industry.
February 05, 2010
Groups Clash Over Fiduciary StandardLeading consumer and investor advocates today urged the Senate Banking Committee to stand strong in the face of a massive lobbying effort by the insurance industry.
February 05, 2010
Good Works: UnitedHealth, StanCorp, AetnaUnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) has invested about $14 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds issued by Children's Institute Inc.
February 05, 2010
Obama Plan Could Boost Revenue From Life Insurers: UBS (Corrected)The budget proposal released Monday by the Obama administration could generate $15 billion in additional revenues for the U.S. government from the life insurance industry over 10 years if enacted, UBS Investment Research says.