Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life Insurer Reports Higher Sales
By staff WriterNew York Life Insurance Company, New York, today announced U.S. life insurance sales were up 14% last year.
March 04, 2010
JHA Speakers: Share Data On 9-11-Related Mental Health ClaimsAn insurance group should support a project to find out how terrorist attacks, economic disasters and natural disasters affect the likelihood that U.S. residents with disability insurance will suffer from disabling mental health problems.
March 04, 2010
Gunning for BunningWisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's remarks at last week's summit were an absolutely devastating critique of Obamacare and its true cost. In the hyper-charged political atmosphere,...
March 03, 2010
Senate Restores COBRA ProvisionThe U.S. Senate finally passed legislation Tuesday night restoring eligibility for 30 days to a provision that allows laid-off people to receive unemployment insurance and COBRA health insurance benefits through December 31, 2010.
March 03, 2010
Revised Proposal Mandates Level FeeBroker-dealers and advisors can only be paid on a "level-fee" basis for providing investment suggestions to retirement plan beneficiaries under a revised rule proposed by the Obama administration Friday.
March 03, 2010
Obama Presses For Healthcare ReformPresident Obama today launched the end game on healthcare reform legislation, saying he wants a vote on the bill in Congress by the end of the month.
March 03, 2010
Disability Event Speakers: Stability Is Not EnoughU.S. disability insurers have held sales and revenue reasonably steady over the past year, but speakers here at a disability insurance conference organized by JHA urged attendees to seek growth, not just stability.
March 03, 2010
SIA Group appoints new sales executiveSIA Group, Raleigh, N.C., has announced that Todd Minchew has been appointed sales executive for the branch office in Wallace, N.C.