Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Sebelius To Health Carriers: Explain Your Rates
By Arthur D. PostalObama administration officials are asking 5 large insurers to publicly disclose their reasons for imposing large rate increases on some customers.
March 08, 2010
Health Bits: Aetna, Humana, OthersPennsylvania has awarded a Medicaid managed care contract for a 5-county region to a unit of Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET)
March 08, 2010
EBRI: Great Recession May Make Workers Work LongerMany workers now say they want to work past the normal retirement age - but some of those workers may have a hard time holding on to jobs as long as they think they will.
March 08, 2010
AIG To Sell ALICO To MetLifeMetLife Inc. (NYSE:MET) is moving ahead with long-rumored plans to acquire American Life Insurance Company from American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG), for a price of about $15.5 billion.
March 08, 2010
EBSA Official: 403(b) Plan Product Not Really An AnnuityAn Employee Benefits Security Administration official wants employers to stop treating a retirement plan investment product as an annuity.
March 08, 2010
Plan Administrator Secures CapitalBrandt Brereton has invested a significant sum in R.K. Schaaf Associates Inc., R.K. Schaaf says.
March 08, 2010
Quiz question: Older age underwritingIn older age underwriting, why do underwriters run cognitive tests on clients?
March 08, 2010
Disability Bits: Securian, Colonial Life, CDSSallie Mae Inc. has hired Securian Financial Group to administer claims for a new "total and permanent disability" provision that will come with Sallie Mae private education loans.