Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Obama Asks For Federal Health Rate Approval Authority (Updated)
By Arthur D. PostalPresident Obama has unveiled a health bill proposal that could give federal regulators the authority to regulate health insurance rates.
February 22, 2010
Pennsylvania Posts Penn Treaty DocumentsThe Pennsylvania Insurance Department has put a collection of documents concerning Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company on its website.
February 22, 2010
Ask the expert: Agency licensing for settlementsThis article answers question about whether an insurance agency needs to be licensed as a settlement broker in a state in order to conduct settlement business.
February 22, 2010
Quiz question: How do market conditions for settlements look?This article answers the question: Do life settlement providers believe that market conditions for settlements changed between December 2009 and January 2010, and if so, to what extent?
February 22, 2010
Ask the expert: Agency licensing for settlementsThis article answers question about whether an insurance agency needs to be licensed as a settlement broker in a state in order to conduct settlement business.
February 22, 2010
Can't Get to the Beach? Try Automating!I recently took my family on a vacation to Disney World. During the long lines in the Magic Kingdom, my wife and I played a lot of word games with our children to keep them from saying "Mom and Dad, when is this line going to end?"
February 22, 2010
Senior Consumers Need Help from Financial Advisors, Study ShowsThe financial decisions that older adults must make as they reach retirement age are increasingly more difficult today than at any other time.
February 22, 2010
Feature: How does disclosure of settlement options impact agents?Washington, Oregon and Maine now have laws that a require life insurers to notify policy owners that the owners have alternatives to cashing out, accelerating or lapsing their life policies. Here is how this might impact advisors.